Don't treat that response the way they want it to be treated: as a "Gotcha! BLM deserves to be suppressed if they aren't the perfect victim".
You know that the violence of the state is reciprocated even to a much myopic and miniscule degree is only natural and justified to constant state repression and violence. So long as injustice and severe repression remain, where the nominal avenues for redress of grievances are ignored or delayed, where civility fails, violence and extremism become potent seeds in the fertile ground of political alienation and powerlessness.
These people are just reactionaries without the obsessive anger against the oppressed. You shouldn't "reach out" to these people or invest any time further when they reveal their reactionary sympathies, but there is always an off chance that a comment can catalyze a change of opinion in the future within their own minds; react to those comments "Ah so there was still violence?" by putting them on the spot: (might be too wordy)
"Protests are supposed to be disruptive and chaotic. does that mean you support extrajudicial police killings because there was - nor could there ever be - the peaceful protest movement that changes policy but does not challenge power?"
Liberals roleplay as good people, and shaming them, bullying them, and putting their opinions on the spot will force them to choose a side in their own mind because if you pretend long enough you eventually inhabit that role.
Don't treat that response the way they want it to be treated: as a "Gotcha! BLM deserves to be suppressed if they aren't the perfect victim".
You know that the violence of the state is reciprocated even to a much myopic and miniscule degree is only natural and justified to constant state repression and violence. So long as injustice and severe repression remain, where the nominal avenues for redress of grievances are ignored or delayed, where civility fails, violence and extremism become potent seeds in the fertile ground of political alienation and powerlessness.
These people are just reactionaries without the obsessive anger against the oppressed. You shouldn't "reach out" to these people or invest any time further when they reveal their reactionary sympathies, but there is always an off chance that a comment can catalyze a change of opinion in the future within their own minds; react to those comments "Ah so there was still violence?" by putting them on the spot: (might be too wordy) "Protests are supposed to be disruptive and chaotic. does that mean you support extrajudicial police killings because there was - nor could there ever be - the peaceful protest movement that changes policy but does not challenge power?"
Liberals roleplay as good people, and shaming them, bullying them, and putting their opinions on the spot will force them to choose a side in their own mind because if you pretend long enough you eventually inhabit that role.