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Originally Posted by loramin
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I don't get it: are you suggesting that millions of people who came together to fight systemic police abuse magically all got hoodwinked into hateful violence by politicians saying what people wanted to hear? It seems to me that what those millions of people wanted to hear (well, really more "see") is an end to police abuse, not a call to violence. Sure violence advocates might convert (and in fact did convert) some BLM members to radical violence, but where's the Trump of the BLM? Where's the politician converting all those peaceful BLM rights advocates into violent radicals? Heck, where's even something close to the Black Panther movement from the 60s?
Not to mention, where is all this violence? Even if you say there were only a few hundred thousand real/active people in BLM (not the millions that joined demonstrations and such), there's been so few acts of BLM violence they can't even amount to 0.1% of the movement. Similarly there isn't even 1% of the BLM movement advocating for violence (or if I'm wrong, point me to the articles/blogs/whatever).
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First off you need to prove the millions claim. Secondly I believe you are forgetting that it started over Mike Brown, who was a drug dealing shop lifter, and gained attention due to the false whitness reports along with misinformation from liberal news stations like CNN. The "movement" still hasn't been able to prove that police violence towards minorities isn't directly related to those minorities crime rates.
Their first rallies all ended in riots where large portions of cities and towns were vandalized. Baltimore and Ferguson are just two examples. This movement topped out in the thousands and never reached millions of supporters.