TALKING POINTS 101: BLM v. Racial Profiling
While some of the tactics of Black Lives Matter have left a bad taste in my mouth, I came to the realization just last night of something I think most folks are overlooking, namely, that the radical right have for ages vociferously promoted racial profiling as an acceptable law enforcement tool.
Now that these same right-wing assholes have stepped up on to their soap boxes to decry the inflammatory rhetoric of BLM, I hafta wonder, where were these hypocritical sacks of shit when police tactics directly promoting a war on the citizenry were being debated? Were they standing up for Big Government's racist policies, or for the harassed citizenry of color?
While in no way condoning the most horrendous of statements that have come from some of the more extreme elements within BLM, it should come as no surprise to anyone that when any one segment of the population is singled out for police scrutiny, that the police scrutinizers would also be singled out - rightfully and properly - by the scrutinized.
If you are in fact 'surprised', then you are also part of the problem the BLM wishes to address: systemic racism.