Comment by AI_WAIFU
5 years ago
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".
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