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The BLM protestors in 2020 were cracked down on by the police, often violently, so I'm not sure what your point is.


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Symbolic actions like painting "BLM" on a street are cute and all, but that doesn't mean they supported the protests. In fact, the cities such as New York and Chicago had some of the most violent suppression of protests by their police forces, despite loudly claiming to support BLM. Actions ultimately speak louder than words.

Read for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incide...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests#United_S...

> At least 200 cities in the U.S. had imposed curfews by early June 2020, while more than 30 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 96,000 National Guard and State Guard service members.[33][34][35][36] The deployment constituted the largest military operation other than war in U.S. history.[37]


That seems pretty outlandish. Are you able to provide a source for that?


Yes, I know since I was part of the protests back then. But there's an incredibly big difference between cracking down on a protest and invoking emergency powers.


In America, we didn’t need emergency powers to shoot BLM protesters. Or Civil Rights protesters, or the unarmed veterans of the Bonus Army, or union members — historically it’s fine to shoot protesters.

Conservatives are just snowflakes because it happened to their guys just one time.


BLM protestors were masking and social distancing. They were doing the right things wrt COVID.


Okay, so if I show you an example of a protest with people that weren't masking or social distancing, you'd be in favor of using emergency powers against protestors that were protesting for racial justice?


Did you miss? /s




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