Yes I completely agree, but my original point was about the total illegitimacy of the blm movement and the resulting rioting, as well as the notion that bad police shoots are inherently racially motivated. Tons of white people also get shot by police every year, I can't think of a single protest or hashtag for any of them.
I could totally get behind a protest (NOT a riot) over an unjustified police killing of anybody, but that's fundamentally not what has been happening all summer. Jacob blake was literally attempting to sexually assault his ex girlfriend with her daughter in the house while she had an active restraining order against him, police shot him only after giving him a billion opportunities to chill the fuck out, and yet kenosha burned to the ground. No, fuck that. Fuck that guy, he was a piece of shit. He's not a martyr. And for his trouble he got over a million dollars on gofundme. This is utter moral confusion and insanity and that's what I'm pushing back against. I couldn't agree more that police should be better funded, so that they can be better trained and better prepared for all scenarios. But they are also volunteers, not in the sense that they aren't paid, but in the sense that they could have chosen any other career. Would you want to go and deal with a jacob blake situation, where you know you might get killed? Fuck no, and the fact that they choose to do it deserves respect.
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