[nerdponx]

The fact remains that BLM related protests in 2020 were handled much more harshly than this. If this were a BLM protest, not only would the protestors have been all arrested and/or killed, but the media would be treating it like a national emergency.

And it's not just the fact that the police allowed it to happen or that the military was not asked to intervene until way too late.

It's also the alarmingly not-alarmed media response. What happened to "thugs" or "rioters" or "enemy combatants"?

[monoideism]

Are we watching the same news channels? They were called "terrorists" on several cable news channels, and (fairly) "insurrectionists" on just about every news channel. I also heard "thugs" more than once. I heard the event as a whole called a "sacrilege".

[nerdponx]

In that case... good. I don't have a TV so I am only seeing the headlines and articles on the Web.