You're disregarding my premise, and arguing against something else. The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted. These events stand on their own, and aren't somehow offset by another protest, or absolved by another protest. It's not an overton window.
> The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted.
But the comparison does inform us on how biased and hypocratical the media and the ruling class are.
You’re arguing that the deprivations suffered by the victims of one civil disturbance are not lessened in any way by the deprivations of a different disturbance.
That BLM, the Night of Broken Glass, and Selma do not make the lives of those affected by the “truckers” any better.
Those events create neither a defense nor condemnation of the “truckers.”
This is true, certainly.
But it does allow third parties (most people on this forum) to create a figure out how bad the situation is.
Likewise, it allows Canadians to assess the actions of their leaders decided if they are appropriate.
Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass.
The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far).
It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples.
It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks.
But I stayed away from the BLM protests, so I only saw them when they came to me.
Like so:
https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY
Edit: to be clear I was present when this happened