🤔Why did Brazil arrest 400 insurrectionists on the same day as the insurrection? Degree of difficulty very low! Unimpressive!
Why didn't their security force just let the insurrectionists walk away, and then wait for unpaid volunteer anti-fascist groups to painstakingly build their cases for them through video analysis and online detective work, and then only arrest a fraction of the violent people over a year later with some light charges? Degree of difficulty:10/10! Now that's impressive!🦅🇺🇲
1) The executive branch doesn't control the FBI. That's, kind of the whole point?
2) If a state capitol were overrun with heavily armed protestors (some in boogaloo shirts!) threatening harm to the governor and public health officials, presumably the governor would use some of the government resources to make immediate arrests? Nope.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXFf0Q2bcU
It doesn't matter who's in charge. In US we let these people run wild, even though that's not working for us
@Debnumbers @martinvermeer If those Michigan protesters were armed and Black, you already know what would've happened. The difference in response is not based on who is in charge.
In the US, first we let violent insurrectionists do whatever they want, as long as they are the right color.
Then we make excuses for us letting the violent insurrectionists do whatever they want.
Then we genuinely wonder why things are bad, and seem to be getting worse.
@Debnumbers @martinvermeer In the US, there are very strict rules about who is allowed to protest and act the fool, and who is not. Everyone knows this. Many of us pretend not to know it.
White folk that are anti-racist do not pretend not to know this. ♥️👍🏿 They use it to their advantage to shield Black protesters. Like this:
A few white kids neutralized an entire line of police with shields!
Or this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VO48yIoxuXw&t=49s
A few white and Asian folks shielded him!
@Debnumbers @martinvermeer The flip side of "over punishing Black folk for appropriate, peaceful, protest" is "under punishing white folk for inappropriate, violent, protest."
It's the other side of the same racist coin.
@Debnumbers @mekkaokereke Hmm. I grew up in the #Netherlands in a solidly white society. Not until high school did I meet darker-skinned people from #Suriname. Now NL never had slavery like the US, but that doesn't make us innocent: there was a corporation called the #VOC who 'owned' #Indonesia - even having their own military - and ran it essentially like a plantation. Dutch prosperity was built on this exploitation. So yes, #WhitePrivilege...
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