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No person protesting during the BLM riots had "gone through much worse for hundreds of years." The truckers had personally experienced the thing they are protes
by billbrown 5y ago
No person protesting during the BLM riots had "gone through much worse for hundreds of years." The truckers had personally experienced the thing they are protesting against (or would be affected by it going forward).
- soared 5y agoI can’t tell if this comment is implying African Americans have not experienced racism or negative systemic impacts in their own lifetime. Or is this just pedantry that an individual can’t live for hundreds of years, and ignoring the actual point of if your parents are uneducated dirt poor then you will likely be uneducated dirt poor. Which is what I’m talking about.
- msie 5y agoTo clarify, the truckers have not been affected by the vaccine mandate until now. They were given two years to get an innocuous jab.
- billbrown 5y agoPedantically, are you suggesting that the people protesting were part of the clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccines? If not, then they were given—at most—a year and, more likely, 9–10 months. I also covered that they "would be affected by it going forward." (I'm not even going to broach the subject of "innocuous jab" at this date. A year ago, that may have been uncontroversial.)