Oh I don’t except it, considering before posting that I searched “deaths attributed to black lives matter movement” and found a confirmed 13 deaths during protests, with 1 of those being an 80 year old from cardiac arrest and a few being the protestors themselves.
Still worth asking for a source so those later see how he has nothing to back up his claim.
While it is true that BLM activities rarely end in criminal deaths, right wing nationalists are now the leading cause of domestic terrorism in the United States, and the comparison between left wing extremism and right wing extremism leading to death is not even close. So on its surface, this is a bad comparison. But below the surface, when you look at motive, it gets even worse (as OP was trying to show). The ethics of BLM are laudable: create social justice from whence there was none through legal protest (note BLM does not officially condone violence or destruction of property and condemns it when it happens). The ethics of right wing nationalists are reprehensible: prevent efforts to create social justice where it is lacking through intimidation, violence, and political manipulation (note that these methods are excused and often celebrated on the right). To sum, both the behavior and the motives of the right are far worse than those on the left, so you shouldn't be playing the whataboutism game here.
I consider myself a conservative and do not do that. I understand that you will consider this "not enough" to prove that wrong, but that's just the way it is when you need to make up complete lies just to be able to bring your generalizations up.
You came into the one comment thread that mentioned BLM, got involved in the child comments about double standards around BLM, and then the only statement in the entire thing you have a problem with is an imagined slight to conservatives. No mention of the lie of "BLM commits murder", instead you think the lie is... your own behavior.
If you wanted to be convincing that you're not yet another conservative who will make up any reason to whine about BLM, you wouldn't even be in here to begin with. It's totally irrelevant and the parent comment that introduced them is obviously lying. Yet here you are, seeking out BLM to complain about them when they're not even involved, going along with an obvious lie just to do it.
Is this... Is this projection? What are you even talking about? I made a comment about generalizations on a meme subreddit, and you somehow think that translates to me complaining about BLM? Or are you making more generalizations in the middle of a conversation you're having, about the person you're talking to? This isn't some "gotcha!" moment like you think it is, you're just doing mental gymnastics to derail a discussion.
It's clear that this has absolutely 0 to do with you trying to discuss a topic, educate others, or have a fruitful conversation. This is just you trying to not be embarrassed by being wrong to a stranger on the internet. I'm not sure what your goal was, but you definitely didn't accomplish it.
Y'all Americans need to stop fighting on every goddamn subreddit though🤣🤣. I know too much about your country already. Both sides need to stop demonizing the other
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u/Dr-Chris-C Nov 22 '22
Conservative militias "protecting" the city from BLM: "Time to murder"