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It's unfair to compare the single event on January 6th with every BLM protest, or every state's implementation of lockdown and the resulting clashes, etc. I'm
by vharuck 3y ago
It's unfair to compare the single event on January 6th with every BLM protest, or every state's implementation of lockdown and the resulting clashes, etc. I'm appalled by January 6th because the representative for my district accepted his win in the November elections, went to D.C., and then voted to throw out all votes for my state as being dubious. The riot, building-storming, and literal lynch mob were the natural outcomes of months of cynical choices by politicians to control the government in spite of democratic elections. It's not a thing to let slide.
- rayiner 3y agoWhat state are you from? January 6 didn’t register for me at all, and I grew up in the area and work in DC. I grew up in Virginia, with a very Jefferson heavy curriculum. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” and whatnot. I wonder if that has something to do with it.
- dctoedt 3y ago> January 6 didn’t register for me at all, and I grew up in the area and work in DC. YGBSM
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoWhose blood exactly is it refreshed with? Also maybe let’s break that toxic cycle instead of continuing it
- rayiner 3y ago“Patriots and tyrants.” It’s right in the quote.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoRight I think implied in my question is “who decides who is who?” Certainly the native populations and black slaves didn’t have much voice here.
- junofan 3y agoThe natives were heavily armed and owned tons of slaves. A prevailing view was slaves were foisted on the colonists by King George III through a combination of debt and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, so a big goal of the Revolution was ending that trade. Of course Jefferson was wrong, and chattel slavery continued.