Going through the cited incidents, it’s hard to come to another conclusion. Do you think Kyle Rittenhouse was there to protest the Kenosha police department?
January 6th insurrection thread...
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Going through the cited incidents, it’s hard to come to another conclusion. Do you think Kyle Rittenhouse was there to protest the Kenosha police department?
As you might have forgotten, I don’t think J6 was terrorism. Dylan Roof and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooters were domestic terrorists, though. Did the FBI incite them?
No - He was there to protect against the violent BLM mobs which if they weren't cheered on those lives would have been spared.
Your inherent desire to be an apologist for all things left wing reeks of your own political ideology.
What we saw in the summer of 2020 was a violent insurrection.
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There were a lot more than 11 people killed during the 2020 riots... I've seen upwards of 40 people. Hell, the Seattle summer of love had 3 when that insurrection took over 6 blocks of the city. Weird how the left just whistled past that... an actual, anti-democracy, takeover of a ****ing city... in which 3 people were killed and two were raped. And the mayor cheered it on as a "summer of love"
shameful
You’re the ones claiming BLM supporters killed a bunch of people unlike the J6 supporters, not me. You can’t take the actions of counterprotestors and attribute them directly to BLM supporters to paint them as killers.
I’m happy to read any contrary evidence that shows murders committed by the BLM protestors.
*searches previous post to find the word murder associated with Rittenhouse*
Nope, I didn’t say he murdered anyone. I said that you can’t call BLM protestors killers and attribute those two deaths to them.
Nope, just contesting this weird argument that BLM protestors did much killing.
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Here are a few different sources. These are all dated in time and thus the figures drastically... but from my readings it's clear that 20+ were killed... and I've seen as many as 40+
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/06/08/14-days-of-protests-19-dead/?sh=2c9def7e4de4
https://www.fox6now.com/news/deadly...ave-died-amid-george-floyd-protests-across-us
And these don't include the Seattle CHOP zone death and other similar incidents that were spurned by just a lack of police enformencet during all the unrest.
And I know you are quick to dismiss the "property damage"... but many of those small businesses have never reopened. A tragedy all around... Cheered on and supported by the left.
But we have daily tears about Jan 6 as if it compared at all in damage
Your first article is the same as mine. 14 of those 25 weren’t attributed to protests. In the second link, you can squint and say that closer to 10 could be directly attributed to protestors, but even that is unclear. You continue to have a good point about property damage, but let’s not pretend that out of 9,000+ protests that there was some sort of bloodbath. BLM protestors simply weren’t out there committing a murder spree, which is what the post I disagreed with implied.
Yep, I wholeheartedly agree that this is a poor message to prioritize politically.
I agree that 1/6 isn’t what it’s made out to be by some. However, there’s two key points you’re ignoring:
1) You’re comparing one protest to many, many protests.
2) Your own sources indicate that there was at least roughly as many deaths attributed to individuals that appeared to be either counterprotesting or “providing assistance” to law enforcement.