Comment by shadowgovt
5 years ago
It wasn't just one video, it wasn't one just one incident, It's not a small amount of people who are upset, and it's not okay.
Quite a few of the protesters have documented why they're out in the street. If anyone is having difficulty understanding the situation, I recommend reading what they've said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-i-protest-george-floyd-pr...
For me personally, it was very educational to bear witness to people protesting police brutality being met with more police brutality---not justified force escalation, but attempts to bait protesters into breaking laws to justify arrests, antagonize nonviolent protests hoping for violent ones, and straight up lying about the situation on the ground. The last part I find insulting, because it's not like the video cameras aren't there. They know the video cameras are there. They believe the system will protect them from violating their own protocols and the law, and so far, it does.
Which is why people continue to protest.
I mean you can point at all the examples of police overreach, injustice and brutality throughout history, but it was the one video that kicked it off. But you've kind of ceeded the original point, none of what you mentioned, and most of the examples cited in that link, are not specifically racial issues, even though they disproportionately affect black people. So "All lives matter" is a reasonable position to hold when presented with the issue of police brutality, that way you end up focusing on the brutality itself rather than the race of the victim. So tarring it as racist by including it in the definition of "white supremacy" in the way the picture does is rhetorically dishonest.
Which finally ties us back to my orignial claim, which is that "white supremacy" is on the rise, and thats because people who care more about themselves or non-racial issues than racial issues have been reclassified as "white supremacists".