Black activists are coming out strongly against a growing narrative among conservatives that equates the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol with last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests of racial injustice.
Republican lawmakers defending President Donald Trump made the comparison again Wednesday while building their case against impeachment and accused Democrats of being hypocrites with selective outrage. Their comments mark the latest effort by Trump and the GOP to misrepresent the Black Lives Matter movement as an extremist, violent faction tied to anarchists.
“You can moan and groan, but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace than some of the BLM and left-wing rioters were this summer when we saw violence sweep across this nation,” Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said in defending Trump before the House voted 232-197 to impeach the president for inciting an insurrection.
But the two events were fundamentally different. One was an intentional, direct attack on a hallowed democratic institution, with the goal of overturning a fair and free election. The other was a coast-to-coast protest movement demanding an end to systemic racism that occasionally, but not frequently, turned violent.
Comparison between Capitol siege, BLM protests is denounced
ReplyDeleteOne was an intentional, direct attack on a hallowed democratic institution, with the goal of overturning a fair and free election. The other was a coast-to-coast protest movement demanding an end to systemic racism that occasionally, but not frequently, turned violent
Why do you post this junk? One was a single riot that flamed out quickly and did no actual damage to democracy or the electoral process. The other was a sustained campaign of terror that caused billions in property damage and killed dozens of people. Saying the riots were mostly peaceful reminds me of the Iraqi propaganda minister who kept talking about how well his army was doing even as US tanks went pass him.
Pretty much every Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn knows that the police let BLM rioters roam the streets. Looting Macy's at Herald Square had nothing to do with social justice.
ReplyDeleteMaybe stick to Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky, if you need something to complain about
Wow! I am so glad you know every Orthodox Jew as well as the police. Widespread belief in nonsense and conspiracy theories doesn't make it true
ReplyDeleteMaybe stick with Trump and alternative facts or maybe just stick with Rabbi
Kaminetsky and he can sell you a new Shulchan Aruch that a few people actually think is true.
I didn't mention Trump at all.
ReplyDeleteBut everyone else is hypnotized, not you
Ah (with a Gemorah niggun), so just like we shouldn't compare BLM which was "mostly ppeaceful to Trump's backed protest on the Capitol, we shouldn't compare his arguments (twisted or not)to the selling of a new Shulchan Aruch....
ReplyDelete(I agree on the last one....)