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That is one perspective, although it’s very limited in its nuance. A lot of people supported BLMs pre-violence protests because they wanted police held accounta

That is one perspective, although it’s very limited in its nuance. A lot of people supported BLMs pre-violence protests because they wanted police held accountable. And a reasonable person can discuss whether the violence would have escalated if the police hadn’t been so aggressive. Compare that to the Capitol insurrection, where the goal was to overturn the results of an election. To overturn the government. Where the people inciting the violence were in the same tent. There was never good intent on the side of the insurrection it’s, and they escalated to violence on their own.

ekianjo 6y ago
> where the goal was to overturn the results of an election If that was really the goal you'd think they would have gunned up a little more than they did. Instead, very few people were actually armed, so that seems rather disorganized for an actual coup. > A lot of people supported BLMs pre-violence protests because they wanted police held accountable. So protesting for police violence makes it OK to loot stores and burn cars that have nothing to do with it? How is that EVER ok? If you condemn violence you need to condemn violence no matter who instigates it, not only when it's very convenient for one to do so. because this is exactly what was happening 6 months ago, people cheer-leading the violence on Twitter if it was BLM related.