>grassroots movement which addressed systemic flaws by destroying minority businesses and neighborhoods
>can buy merchandise supporting said movement from every major corporation on Earth

you posted the same thing twice in a row. repeating yourself and bolding points so you can try to understand some copy-pasta you found on reddit politics doesn't magically change reality.

most people here have condemned the 6-years of riots in the USA in the name of ending brutality and also condemned the attempted occupation of the capitol. only users like you defend the 6 years of riots that destroyed minority neighborhoods and businesses (probably because this gets you hot and bothered) and only rando multis defend the capitol attempted occupation.

e: reported, btw

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of course you don't - otherwise the whole false equivalence won't work. the only reason we even talk about the BLM movement in this thread are the transparent whataboutisms and bothsidesisms of republican hacks, who simply want to downplay the insurrection incited by trump because he lost an election, and smear the movement for social justice. you're not being 'fair' or 'objective' or whatever you tell yourself to justify that intellectually lazy stance, you're being had.

The reason im talking only about blm with you is that you and i probably have little to no disagreements on how we perceive the insurrection incited by trump. Do you understand that mr intellectual?

Would you even care to comment on the comments by the chicago black lives leader that i referenced or is this one of of those crimestop things for you that i heard about several years ago

really, you reported him for an online argument? we found another Karen! great, like the world needed more Karens.

Its a running joke

no, the reason we're talking about BLM in a thread about trump's second impeachment is that you uncritically perpetuated that moronic whataboutism, even proudly stating that you don't care about the context. you just have to look at the kind of people who agree with you on this, who constantly use it in order to downplay trump's insurrection, while at the same time trying to smear a movement for social justice, and that tells you all you need to know.

i have repeatedly and unequivocally condemned acts of violence and vandalism in relation with the blm movement. i have also addressed the fact that some of it was instigated by right-wingers, bored vandals, and criminals exploiting the situation to enrich themselves. i referenced some of MLK's statements regarding violence, attempts to smear his movement by the FBI, and the media's general obsession with violent imagery, leading to gross misrepresentations about the extent of those occurrences. you can find all this in the respective threads, if you're really interested in my detailed view on this, if this isn't just an attempt to save face and pretend there was a legitimate reason to entertain those dishonest comparisons.

here, however, it serves only one purpose - and that is to draw a false equivalence between a movement for social justice, and an insurrection attempt as a result of the president lying for months because he lost a democratic election - and i will call out anyone stupid enough to buy into that idiocy.

I honestly cant recall seeing it but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on this and leave it at that. I thought you identified with the super left end of the spectrum that does not have an issue with the violence within blm riots.

it's obviously a bit more complicated than that. in which context it happens, how it's portrayed, and who actually does it for what reason... those are relevant factors trying to judge those kinds of situations. doesn't matter if you personally "care" about it or not.
you can't cover that with a simplistic, self-righteous stance like 'i'm against violence' or 'i'm ok with it'. i mean, just look at the smooth-brained 'bothsides' crowd, self-aggrandisingly claiming to be "against ALL violence": for some reason, they largely don't seem to have a problem with the violence committed by police, more often than not unprovoked and / or disproportionate. that illustrates how it's not a 'principled', let alone reflected stance or anything, but a lazy excuse, trying to assume a moral highground while simultaneously smearing one of the largest movements for justice in american history.

cases of pure destructive vandalism for the sake of it, self-enrichment, instigating, thrill-seeking at the cost of others... i've always condemned that.

however, this is a thread about trump's impeachment, and the ONLY reason the BLM protests are such a prominent topic here are the dishonest whataboutisms and false equivalences by right wing hacks - and the people who are too dumb or too lazy to recognise how buying into this narrative is helping their cause of discrediting a movement for social justice, while trying to downplay an insurrection, following months of systematic lies by a president who couldn't accept that the people voted him out of office. again, somewhat disappointing how you bought into that so easily tbh.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/smartmatic-fox-news-giuliani-powell-lawsuit/index.html



The introduction to the lawsuit beings with "The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable."

Regardless of the veracity of their claims any election linked with them will now be spun in right wing circles as "another rigged election". Minimum they're gonna have to do is totally rebrand to make themselves less recognizable. Pretty significant potential damage claim...