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by TomSwirly 1889 days ago
> they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows

Who are "they"? I'm serious in this question.

Do you have the idea that these demonstrations are somehow carefully organized and that BLM upper management gave the instructions to break your windows specifically?

It is not the case.

The police kill some Black American in some particularly awful or gratuitous way.

It enrages a lot of people, as you would expect.

Many angry people take to the streets. They are not organized, for the most part. The vast majority are completely peaceful. Some of them aren't as is always the case.

Some of them hold signs saying, "Black Lives Matter".

Someone broke your window during these demonstrations. If I had to bet, it would be some young, angry person. Black Lives Matter did not make this happen, and if they didn't exist, people would still take to the streets when one of their own is murdered publicly by the authorities.

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There is no "they" there. I recommend a broader and more nuanced view of the situation.

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“They” is BLM. These people held BLM signs. And I never heard or saw any BLM leader come out and condemn these terrorists. You know it’s really interesting that you post these mental gymnastics to shift the blame away from the criminals, trying to tell me, the victim, that I’m in the wrong.

Please go troll somewhere else.