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Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Saturday, 6 June 2020
BLM: An Excuse For Anarchy?
When Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck, I was outraged like everyone else. I was angry. I wanted justice to be served. And then BLM happened. And I lost interest. Why? Well.
Entirely sincere question; forgive my ignorance if I'm not seeing all the pieces yet.
What is the purpose of these BLM protests? As in, what is the end goal? What is the aim? What is the goal that needs to be met for the protesters to be appeased and feel they've achieved their aim?
At the moment it seems the intended goal is akin to The Purge. Deface War memorials, damage innocent peoples property, steal property for personal gain, ruin businesses who's owners have worked hard to build them from nothing, and kill or defund the police entirely (even those that aren't racist and work hard to protect communities from criminals).
Is that the actual purpose? Is this what the protests are intended to achieve? I don't think so, but I could be wrong. I'd assumed (perhaps naively) that it was about holding police (mainly racist ones) accountable for their excessive use of force, and to honour the deaths of victims of aforementioned police brutality. As an additional layer of purpose, to open the worlds eyes to any systemic racism that still lingers in shadows.
Please, enlighten me. At the moment the purpose (which I'd assumed it was for) has been largely lost amidst the reports of rioting, looting and general anarchy.
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