Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

The language of many of the BLM protests was explicitly to overthrow the United States government—literally revolution through violence resistance. And yet, somehow, the media never labeled them "seditionists" and tried to shut down their institutions. Quite the opposite!

That “the media” failed in their responsibility to label things correctly doesn’t give you a pass to do the same.

This increasingly reads like “the media were inaccurate hypocrites so we get to be the same.” No, no you don’t.

What am I labeling incorrectly?

We have substantial evidence that folks used violence (again, a police officer was murdered) and the language of revolution last week but you keep engaging in the same denial tactics that people who defended BLM did last summer. You are doing exactly why the media did last summer

My argument is pretty simple and consistent: neither the Capitol rioters nor the BLM rioters were actually instigating a coup. They were both engaging in reprehensible political violence—which I condemned—but their "coups" were merely theatrical, postmodern, symbolic.

Chaz was not performative; the destruction of businesses was not performative; the shooting of David Dorn was not performative.

If you’re arguing that their use of reprehensible violence was mere play acting and they weren’t seriously trying to overthrow anything, I don’t know what to say.