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2021-05-24 Fifth Column
NY Times Can't Figure out Reason for 'Rapid Decline' in Support for BLM Last Year
[REDSTATE] The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

has an opinion piece out — "Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year. Did It Last?"

They note how immediately after the death of George Floyd, support for BLM surged. But then, after June 3, it took a precipitous drop, and as the summer went on, it declined to even less support for BLM than there had been before Floyd’s death among some voters. The article said that among some voters, including Republicans, that it turned to outright opposition.

The article suggests this drop is evidence of support from white people and Republicans being "fickle." They never seem to figure out why it took such a precipitous drop after June 3, just suggesting that people don’t like it when protesters seek redress of grievances or implying that Republicans and non-supportive voters have issues with civil rights. Translation: racisssst!

What they completely leave out and never mention is the riots, the assaults, the killings, the destruction that occurred over the past year in connection with BLM protests, particularly the destruction at the end of May, beginning of June. Do you think that might have had a little to do with the precipitous drop after June 3? How do you write about the decline in support and never touch upon that? Then came the radical calls to defund the police which virtually no one but Democrats supported.

What the decline showed was that yes, black lives matter to people which was why there was a brief moment of unity, but then, people of all stripes rejected the violence and the radical nature of BLM.

But, of course, the New York Times wanted to suggest it was uncaring white people and Republicans, while leaving out all the destruction.

The article notes that white Democrats were still supporting BLM which they take as positive movement. So basically they’re confirming either that Democrats are ignorant of what went on or are cool with destruction if they think they agree with the radical nature of it. It’s true. Democrats like Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
embraced BLM and have never repudiated it. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and now Joe Biden's wing nut. She's displaying her level of competence in her hanling of the Biden Border Surge
and 13 Biden campaign staffers even donated to a bail fund during the riots. Not a good look, Democrats.

The New York Times doesn’t believe that that opposition to BLM is likely to reverse any time soon. Good.

Posted by Fred 2021-05-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#1 Ah, f*ck BLM.
Posted by Dacama 2021-05-24 08:03||   2021-05-24 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Let this keep up. There soon won't be even sympathy for BLs.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-24 08:06||   2021-05-24 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Did a local bike ride on Saturday, changed my course to cross over a certain intersection in Milton. There were six / eight people on the side of the road with BLM signs; all old white liberals. A few people honked; of the three that did, it was black folks driving those cars.

Milton might as well be Cambridge or Brookline.
Posted by Raj 2021-05-24 08:47||   2021-05-24 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 BLM is and always was a scam. A more effective version of a Sharpton Shakedown.

But unlike Sharpton, they cleverly did three things right. First, they narrowed their focus to the cops, tapping into the anarchists' "All Cops Are Bastards" energy and ensuring a never-ending supply of outrage by pretending every justified killing of a violent black douchebag -- Michael Brown, Breonna, St George -- was somehow a case of martyrdom.

Second, they escalated the violence. Sharpton staged one pogrom in Crown Heights in the mid-1980s. BLM killed DOZENS of killings in nonstop riots over hundreds of cities.

Finally, they enlisted the Democrats and their media whores in the struggle. Sharpton never cozied up to the Democrats or the Sulzbergers. BLM by contrast showed Pelosi, Biden, Harris and the rest that their anarchy and lies could be used to create an image of chaos that could be hung around Trump's neck.

And at the Times, BLM could be used by opportunistic, no-talented morons like Hannah Nikole Jones to gain fame, fortune and advancement at the expense of the Times' older white editors and writers whom they falsely accused of "racism."

In the end, BLM has been exposed as the biggest con job in US history. Sharpton must be burning with envy.
Posted by Ulavins Hapsburg5680 2021-05-24 08:51||   2021-05-24 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Raj, are they there every weekend? I'm close by and don't mind slapping the shit out of ppl.
Posted by Chris 2021-05-24 10:51||   2021-05-24 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ I recommend driving by and throwing black ink in their faces. Let them get beaten by Wakandan mobs.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-24 11:58||   2021-05-24 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 good idea dron
Posted by Chris 2021-05-24 14:07||   2021-05-24 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Ulavins Hapsburg5680, Fourth, the name of their group was brilliant.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-05-24 18:28||   2021-05-24 18:28|| Front Page Top

#9  Milton might as well be Cambridge or Brookline.

It’s why I gave up in the diff in OTP and ITP and moved to Brookhaven.

No kids in school anymore so N Fulton nor Forsyth have any difference.
Posted by Beavis 2021-05-24 22:44||   2021-05-24 22:44|| Front Page Top

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