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I took a break for the holidays. Hey yall, I'm back.
In other news, HOLY ****
Trump supporters have stormed the capital, which is on lockdown.
But it's BLM and "antifa" that are dangers to democracy.
Anyone still supporting Trump no longer supports America or democracy.
This is a mostly peaceful protest.
I can't tell if you're joking or not. They stormed the capital, are brawling with police, and shots have been fired.
To be fair... when the right-wing guys were saying similar things that about BLM protests you were saying they were "mostly peaceful." It was your side of the aisle that decided that protests could be mostly peaceful while people were trying to light the police headquarters on fire every night. Which I assumed was Doug's point when he posed the question in the first place. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but when he first posted that I was like "ha - that's the most clever thing I've ever seen from Doug, by a lot."
WRONG. We pointed out that most Black Lives Matter PROTESTS were peaceful. Something like 93%.
It was a response to right wingers calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist group and suggesting that the protest movement, as a whole, was violent.
This is a horrible false equivalency.
You were saying that things were peaceful in Portland, where said repeated attempts to burn down the police headquarters were a daily occurrence.
Now putting police in danger is a sign that things are out of hand. You may need to accept that it's not as much a false equivalency as you would like it to be.
I certainly never said BLM was a terrorist organization, but as much as more moderate supporters tried to take the stances you did and disavow the extreme elements, the reality is that event organizers routinely justified the looting and violence and tried to explain the mindset that led to such actions instead of roundly condemning them.