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This is a bad take. "White power" is a call for supremacy. "Black power" is a call for equity and solidarity. Conflating the two by saying that blocking both

• MereInterest 6y ago
  For a while there was an internet game going around where you would give a deliberately vague and ambiguous description, then use it to imply similarity for the sake of invoking cognitive dissonance in the reader. For example, "A small group of rag-tag rebels strike at the empire that brought war to them, bringing down a mighty symbol of that empire. Am I describing Star Wars Episode 4, or the 9/11 attacks?". When done for humor sake, these can be rather amusing. abstractbarista's comment is a political attack along the same lines. By drawing an equivalence between the phrases "white power" and "black power", there is the implicit statement that the two are morally equivalent, which is by no means the case. They then follow-up by saying that since the two are equivalent, they should be treated the same. It's a bait and switch, where the syntactic similarity is used to imply semantic similarity where no such semantic similarity exists.