Thank-you! I’ve made this argument repeatedly for a week now. It’s been exhausting here in Windsor.
On the plus side, I’ve come to see it as an opening: “so, NOW you want to talk about BLM?”
When fascists are dickering with language and literature, and the zone is truly flooded with sh#t, specificity gains greater importance. The 2020 BLM protests did not start with the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police. Sadly, cops killing a black man is an all too common occurrence in North America and does not normally spark one of the largest global mass demonstrations in at least a generation. It started with the viral video of the foul murder of George Floyd by police. Those of us who participated in the protests, (admittedly from a distance, in my case due to an autoimmune condition, {also fully masked outdoors which, I was informed by local “experts”, makes be a brainwashed zombie sheep}) sincerely cannot fathom how anyone could watch that brutal video and feel anything other than horror, revulsion and outrage. It was like a collective kick to the genitals that also broke our hearts. Criticism from anyone who felt nothing is inherently invalid. Comparing that shared global trauma to the CoupTruxFlu is supreme idiocy and downright offensive. The convoy began with a GoFundMe setup by far-right separatists unironically calling themselves Canada Unity. How utterly ignorant and/or morally bankrupt do you have to be to lend even a scrap of credibility to people who, in both documented words and deeds, proved they don’t care about Canada whatsoever and actively seek the opposite of Unity.
Sorry (obligatory). As I said it’s been exhausting.
