PROUD BOYS defend QAnon "Ashli Babbitt... NOT a CRIMINAL like George Floyd"....

[TigressDem]

7. It CAN be argued that BLM are the TRUE Patriots.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0114-blm-patriots-20210113-5dwwx5r75veufp4fyb7i2alfkq-story.html

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To explain, the BLM movement is based on the proposition that our institutions have, for too many and for too long, failed to live up to their promise. The BLM movement merely demands that this promise be fulfilled. The BLM movement leans on our shared political values — liberty, equality of opportunity and the rule of law — to point out that our collective political project is not finished.


My thot:
IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION....

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One need not agree with their interpretation of these values or the impact that they claim these values ought to have (though I do) to recognize that the BLM project is one that seeks to perfect the American project by demanding that our shared values are made manifest for all. BLM demands that America lives up to its aspirations.


My thot:
CONTRAST

The same cannot be said for those who stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6. In fact, despite their rhetorical appeals to 1776 and their ostensive belief in the patriotic nature of their actions, the fact that the flags they flew were dominated by Trump campaign flags and included Confederate flags and banners of white supremacist gangs should be indication enough of where their loyalties lie.


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If we think of what their actions tell us, they violently stormed and looted our nation’s capital, seeking to overturn an election through forceful and unlawful means. In an effort to deny the will of the American people, they were implicitly denying the political equality of their fellow citizens, and they were undermining our political freedom, not defending it.