I used to watch old footage from the 60s of African Americans getting hosed down in front of businesses for “peacefully protesting”. I used to see that news media footage thinking “look at all this racism, they weren’t doin nuffin”. Now, I wonder what was really happening and if perhaps the media played a role even then in misrepresentation.
This has also made me 100% recontextualize the Rodney king riots. This BLM shit is so toxic, it’s retroactively making me reconsider similar “protests” that I felt were positive or at least justified.
Is anyone else feeling this way?
Not really; I received an excellent education -- both at school and at home.
Civil Rights protests? Eh, 50/50: they did have a real thing to protest about; there were communists that made sure to get situated into that movement (ALL socially progressive movements since the late 1800/early 1900s to now have had some flavor of socialist infiltration -- that's the bad part. Rodney King and today? Oh, hell yeah, those were agitated set-ups. There are some organic concerns, but those are swimming in a sea of communist agitprop.
That's been the socialist playbook from the start. Good agitprop always contains an element of truth.
What you said is really all that matters. In the 50's and 60's, they had a an actual gripe that justified their actions. Now they don't really have a goal besides, get rid of police?
Actual gripe? Yes. Justified violence? Ehhhhhhh.
I still think there’s more to the story.