Yeah that’s kind of my point. The movement that started about BLM somehow has its longest sustained protest carried out by mostly white protesters in one of the whitest and most liberal major cities in the country. The same pool of mostly white antifa protesters that were clashing with Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer a while back. Going back to the WTO anarchists protests I’d bet it’s a lot of the same crew.
I feel like they’re just doing what they’ve done for a long time, but slapping a BLM label on it for now.
Someone like Sabo to me is a good example. I’m sure he truly believes a Marxist revolution will be the best thing for black people. But still, for him it’s mostly about the revolution. Ending police brutality is just one expected outcome of the revolution he wants.
For the vast majority of the BLM protesters nationwide - it’s 100% about ending police brutality and zero % about any kind of revolution. I feel like this thread should be about what the vast majority of BLM protesters want - and not every pragmatic solution met with “just abolish the police, it’s that simple” - which is my main point. We already have a thread just for abolishing the police.
It’s frustrating not to be able to suggest what I see as real potential solutions (like sane gun laws) w/o having to argue whether the police should even exist - every single time.