One of my friends is very proud to have been arrested during a BLM riot. Flash bangs, tear gas, all that. Now he brings it up as some sort of arguing point: "YEA WELL WHERE WERE YOU?"
So they all got arrested and had to stay outside all night while being held. Today im talking to him and he claims they changed alot. He brought up "all those convictions" but only one cop was convicted last year while over 200 were killed. Then he mentioned Aubery who was murdered in Alabama, but they were private citizens not cops, and there was literally video of the murder. Naturally he didn't seem to take that fact well.
Defunding didnt happen much either. Is this just a liberal brain trying to convince themselves theyve done something useful? Because nothing really changed after they dragged Bernie away either.
if it helps, they also think only red fascism has existed and theres never been a successful communist country.
Really simple. If you were a materially well off white liberal who wasn't rich enough to think you were above police retaliation, you stayed inside, avoided putting any kind of action towards your beliefs, avoided any situation where you might have to test and reinforce said beliefs, and wrote off the riots as meaningless because they meant you would have to go outside and actually do something as a leftist other than posting on a forum or participating in glorified reading groups.
There's no excuse for not taking action to defend lives unless you're physically unable.
Unorganized, unchanneled rage strikes/protests happened all the time in tsarist Russia and the Bolsheviks were at every single one they could be at. It took dozens before the fruit bore