No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday that they wouldn’t have been treated very differently than the mob that stormed the Capitol.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 7, 2021
We all know that’s true — and it’s unacceptable.
Yes, we all know that's true.
If it had been BLM, they would have been called "protestors" rather than "the mob."
Every headline covering the event would have included the words "mostly peaceful."
If it had been BLM, expressions of solidarity, not condemnation, would be universal and de facto mandatory, and every corporation, media outlet, and church would be falling over themselves to provide the same.
If she had been a drugged-up petty criminal of the sacred race, Ashli Babbitt would have been elevated to sainthood, her name printed on football helmets, and the cop who murdered her doxxed and harrassed.
But of course if it had been BLM, they never would have wasted their time storming the Capitol in the first place. They would have targeted a real symbol of oppression: the local Louis Vuitton store.
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(By the way, what do you think of this post? I think it's Nebula material.)
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