scottishwobbly:

theculturedmarxist:

kairos89:

chaoskirin2:

demiboydemon:

Okay but like don’t count the BLM movement as a 2020 disaster. The US prison system, cops, and white supremacy are the disasters. If one of the things you count in your ‘Why 2020 sucked’ posts is the riots, you’re victim blaming.

To paraphrase Micky Dolenz, media outlets are calling the BLM movement “Riots” because they don’t know how to spell “demonstration.”

The BLM movement is NOT RIOTS. These are civil rights protests.

I’ve seen several media outlets count the BLM movement as something that was “wrong” with 2020. Honestly the ability to organize and protest is one of the only things that’s gone RIGHT. It’s the counter protesters that are fucked up.

About 93% of racial justice protests in the US have been peaceful, a new report finds

The report, released Thursday, contradicts assumptions and claims by some that protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are

CNN

Chicago Police arrested more people for protesting than looting in early days of unrest, contradicting city claims

Just 20% of arrests during the first few days of unrest were for looting-related crimes, contradicting earlier statements by the CPD that lo

Chicago Sun-Times

13 Police Officers Lounged, Napped in US Rep. Rush’s Office as Looting Swept South Side

More than a dozen officers lounged, slept and snacked in the burglarized South Side office of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush in the early hours of Jun

WTTW News

Nearly 1,000 instances of police brutality recorded in US anti-racism protests

Police attacks on citizens and journalists over five months accompanied by incidents of tolerance of or collaboration with far right

the Guardian

They’re called protests when they accomplish nothing and riots when they’re effective. 

Stop fucking shying away from the word “riot”, this summer saw a police precinct burned to the fucking ground - it was a riot, and rioting works, and rioting is good.

Rioters could be looting department stores for a hundred years and still they would not have taken back what has been stolen from us by the ruling class, stop moralising revolt.

MLK’s march on washington was caslled a riot in his time