An argument can even be made that much of the success of america and the west is the result of free time gained by slavery, colonialism and armed robbery of land.
"Cops should stop killing us" vs "no, cops are great" and you look at that and say "you guys have too much free time, you wouldn't care otherwise"? I smell ulterior motive here.
Yes surely this is a good representative experiment.
Yet from here, BLM seems to clearly be a US election phenomena rather than a general desire to fix things. It basically disappeared after the last election and the election before that.
I'd happily bet on it arising again in 2024.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-10-01%202...
Being one of the few levers that citizens have to pull, it is unsurprising that elections create stir over issues that are perpetually important.
Nevertheless with respect to the trend chart, correlation ≠ causation. The spring/summer peak in BLM activity was temporally related to the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Were other factors involved? Likely; but it would take more social science to tease out, rather than Google trends.
> I have no horse in this race
Maybe not in a direct political sense. I don’t live in the U.S. either; but the BLM protests in my country pointed to a moral solidarity that transcends political boundaries. “Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
What actual changes occurred in your country due to the Black Lives Matter movement in a legal sense? Did it result in less police deaths? Covid probably threw a spanner in the works judging such things but for many countries it's likely more their own way to vote on US politics by having people out in the streets than a domestic issue.
It's a US phenomena exported and regurgitated by many others across the west who simply don't have these systemic problems with their police force at all. This concern only really appears once every four years in foreign countries.
Why is no one protesting today, truly? Did the whole BLM movement just decide that brutality stopped? The stats seem the same.
Think it will appear again across the planet in the lead up to the 2024 US election. And your country, along with mine, will be highly concerned about police brutality that doesn't exist in our own nations.