The chuds are absolutely frothing mad - at least online (hell, there are 800 comments right on this article if you want to take their temperature). Regardless of whether this is the coordinated action of some vanguard, or the spontaneous action of a bunch of lone wolves, I think these acts have a value. When the state is forced to answer for its atrocious policies of colonialism and genocide, it immediately begins making hollow gestures towards reconciliation. When the state does this, the only dignified response is to spit right in its eye.

Raising the temperature like this is undoubtedly a dangerous move. Burning a handful of churches and toppling a handful of statues gives the reactionaries an infinitesimal taste of the cultural erasure they've waged on colonized people for centuries. It is just a drop in the ocean, but they react to it with the acuteness of sharks to blood. This in turn undermines the state's false attempts at reconciliation. As the notion of simply paving over unspeakable injustice dwindles, people are forced to choose sides. Particularly, people who play institutional roles in the state, media, and public life.

It makes it very clear where individuals and organizations stand on the issue. People who normally would be able to slip by making vague gestures towards justice are forced to take sides either with the oppressed or the oppressors. Even for BLM, while the riots and arsons may not have abolished or defunded the police, they made it crystal clear where people stand on the issue, down from your shithead neighbors to the highest ranks of the "woke" Liberal elite. Don't underestimate the value of that clarification. It will prove very useful as the movement advances forward.

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Burning a handful of churches and toppling a handful of statues gives the reactionaries an infinitesimal taste of the cultural erasure they've waged on colonized people for centuries.

Reading through these comments actually makes this patently clear. Many people are referring to this as "hate crimes," "pogroms," "(white) genocide," "terrorism," "persecution," "Kristallnacht," "book burning," etc. etc. I don't think even a single person has been killed, but they're prepared to compare this to the Holocaust.