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Originally Posted by Mblake81
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Maybe because twitter users were not storming their capital because that seems to be the kicker right there, however it was shown that lightly burning buildings in the economy is ok. You can even have a large message painted on the streets.
You can do all that, just don't go near the capital. It gets really real when those people feel the heat. Recall that one lady who flipped the script when the protests got near her home.
"Do what you want in the neighbors backyard, don't get caught and don't bring it inside the house"
If caught use "I am participating in our democracy"
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I didn't really support the BLM protests and certainly was not happy about the looting etc., but again comparing them is not the same. BLM was about people who protested against what they perceived as systemic racism in law enforcement which caused them to be treated completely differently (in some cases with deadly results). And as an aside, while I usually don't engage with their arguments about minorities being treated differently to an extreme extent, I do have to admit it's tough to dispute that claim following how white people were treated in an attempted coup vs. how black people were treated for marching in a street.
What happened last week was people literally attempting to disrupt the electoral process in order to overthrow the duly elected government and appoint their own leader who lost the election. Comparing looting during a BLM protest to a literal attempt to subvert democracy and prevent the impact of a free and fair election (the most anti-American thing you could possible do and the antithesis of all that we stand for) is completely nonsensical. They are not analogous at all.
01-12-2021, 10:20 AM
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