Ok so they make 6 decent points but totally omit an actual compound estimate because they can't estimate the damage this has done on the other side, the downside risk. These include: this provides distribution between groups e.g. to jails, between cops, cops <> protestors
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and even if they weren't they're not considering the fact that the apparent hypocrisy of the tactics has been successfully weaponized. more and more people are being dismissed. politically, people who care about black lives *must* recognize this as a problem to deal with it.
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that problem with these biased defenses is more than that the other side then dismisses us. we get high off our own supply of propaganda. that's the same problem that the right has, with trump watching fox news.
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"BLM people are in denial" seems too simplistic. Look, I'm deeply ambivalent here. I didn't go to any protests myself. But neither you nor I have spent our lives terrorized by the state. So neither of us can make these tradeoffs easily without the voices of those who have.
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Actually. I have. I have supported the rights of protestors from the beginning and have spent literally hundreds of hours tweeting about the issue. And I've spent thousands of hours this year reporting on the coronavirus. And viral/police/economic oppression combines. I can speak
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