‘They boiled down demographics and social issues to a bunch of "categories" but I'm not allowed to call them a "type"? That seems unfair.’ You’re going to need

‘They boiled down demographics and social issues to a bunch of "categories" but I'm not allowed to call them a "type"? That seems unfair.’ You’re going to need to provide a quote for that. I don’t see where they did this, in fact I see the opposite. They criticized the boiling down of demographics and social issues to categories. As to calling it ‘unfair’. I don’t see what fairness has to do with this. Adopting a political opponent’s harmful strategies just makes you no different from them. It doesn’t make the strategy helpful. I really don’t see anything they say that implies that the author sees equivalence between these two acts. What is certainly true is that the two ‘sides’ see their own acts as justified and the other sides as unjustified. I personally agree with you that there is no parity between the two. Trump attempted a coup, whereas BLM staged a protest to get their grievances heard. You can extrapolate from CHAZ to a desire to undermine our democratic process, but you have to extrapolate a very long way, whereas no extrapolation is needed in the case of the Capitol riots. However I just don’t see where the author is ‘implying’ they are the same. Only that they both symptoms of the deeper problems that are being described.