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My personal point of view, about the difference in police and government responses to this "riot/coup" and the BLM protests, is that black people in the united states have actually had their votes stolen, been deprived of the right to vote, had the places they've lived removed from the electoral rolls, been disenfranchised, and had to work so fucking hard to get back something that never should have been taken in the first place, so they can engage in a political process which has for the most part fucked them over.
And these whiny fucks are upset about something that didn't happen.
Their votes were counted.
Their man lost a fair election.
There is no "steal" of it.
And they get waved into the Capitol building, the police pose for selfies with them, and their whiteness protects them from the violence that was brought on the BLM protestors for protesting peacefully, much farther away from the capitol buildings they've just rolled through.Just the thought of the injustice of it makes me rage.
It's just fucked up, and what makes it worse, is that the next time their is a BLM protest all of this shit will be forgotten and you'll get the same media tropes about black/ethnic protesters being all rioters/looters etc. Distorting protests which are looking to change the historical inequality in that country, whilst this riot/coup is about nothing more than hurt feelings because the person you support can't come to terms with the fact that he lost.
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Just the thought of the injustice of it makes me rage.
It was fucking grotesque watching the perfect play of white privilege.
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Just to clarify, in no way do I want to trivialise the unjustness of the response (law and media) to the BLM protests.
They're only analogous in terms of how you should aim to deal with large crowds in a way that limits harm to people.
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I fully concur with this.
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Post history checks out ;)
I guess I'm just considering how much of this is people I don't like doing stuff. Or possibly and underlying fear of the reality of this happing in a country like mine - rather than what I've been conditioned to expect from "less developed" countries.
We were talking about this, this morning and the whole "if they'd been BLM" point lots are making. Are we just annoyed at the unjustness between the different responses? Or does part of us want to see violence and brutality inflicted on people we don't agree with.
You see a similar thing with the woman who just died that people are framing as a Qanon nut. When many of those same people probably view Lisa Montgomery (who cut a baby out of a mother and kidnapped it) as mentally ill.