Salus Maior wrote:Jedi Council wrote:There is a bit of a difference; BLM can make the case, pretty damn convincingly imo, that the Justice system, as represented by say a court house, has systematically discriminated against people of colour and caused them irreparable harm in the form of mass incarceration, murder, etc.
Occupying or rioting in a court house is therefore at least understandable.
By contrast, the Capitol Hill riot had absolutely zero basis; their argument was not backed up by any serious evidence, their motivations were entirely nefarious in that they were planning on overturning a democratic election. They went into the building chanting things like "death to Pence," came equipped with zap strap handcuffs and constructed a gallows outside.
Nuance is a thing; we should be able to identify the differences in these events without resorting to this stupid "both sides" narrative.
You're right that there really isn't any solid evidence that the election was a fraud, but that's not what the rioters believe. They're not doing this cynically.
They have a sincere belief, baseless or no, that the election is "stolen" and that the government and the people who make up it are irredeemably corrupt. So, in the same vein of BLMers acting in the belief (again, baseless or no) that destroying courthouses makes a statement about their dissatisfaction with the justice system, Trumpers saw occupying Capitol Hill in a revolutionary act as making a statement about their dissatisfaction with the government and its perceived corruption. Which, of course, the idea that Washington is irredeemably corrupt has existed well before Trump, and played a big role in his election in the first place as Trump was supposed to "drain the swamp" if you remember.
Sincere belief doesnt matter, what matters is facts, evidence and reality.
If these people were delusional enough to believe as you say that the election was stolen, that's not a point into their favour, and should not mean we necessarily need to treat them in the same manner as BLM.
BLM's riots, which for the millionth time were not at all the majority of activities that occurred last summer, as most protests were peaceful, can provide a reasoned, evidence based assertion for why the did what they did.
The Trumpers cant.
Equating the two as if both were equally justified or unjustified is hogwash and feeds into this narrative of false equivalency.