Anti-woke leftist looking for a place with less brain-rot.

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[–]forgottenpasswordguy 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't blame you and I'm surprised I don't see more people like you. It must be hard to have leftist ideals while actually hanging around the left these days. Sometimes I feel the same hanging with people on the right when they start whining about the BLM protests, you can be skeptical about the numbers of police specifically targeting black people, but a lot of the people marching simply want justice and police accountability-nothing wrong with that.

[–]Girlwiththeraventat 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They have framed police accountability as being only a black issue. Out of the people killed by police every year, black people are the minority. Which is understandable because they are a minority population anyway. But now you have people saying cops hunt black people and every white person is racist. Which is just not true. And those statements turn away people from their cause. Like me. I do think the police system needs an overhaul. But I dont think it's a race issue like the media and BLM are trying to make it.

[–]forgottenpasswordguy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with you on that for the most part.

I'm kinda weird in that I like seeing the protests (except for the accompanying people in the middle of the road, and vandalism) and I hope they move us forward, but at the same time I don't like that it has been made into such a racial issue. If they would just leave it at "the thugs that broke into Breonna Taylor's home haven't been charged, cops should fear consequences of suffocating people like George Floyd, stop shooting shoving and gassing peaceful protestors, and Daniel Shaver's murderers haven't seen any justice" that would be ideal.