Friday, January 22, 2021

leftovers - the united state of denial (protesting comparisons)

There seems to be an urge to compare the storming of the US capitol to this summer's Black Lives Matter protests. I can see the point - one is a protest, the other is a protest, so the common denominator is there - but I disagree with the connection. As I wrote on Sunday, the January 6 attack was based on a fiction, but the BLM protests were based on real crimes committed on America's streets.