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How would you characterize the 2020 Floyd riots, which caused an estimated $1-2 billion of damage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests) and resulted in Trump at one point being taken to a White House security bunker by the Secret Service for his safety? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vho8ueAAtaY

I'll never understand how all of this was memory-holed to such a degree, and in such a short span of time (six months), that the pearl-clutching over Jan 6 didn't seem completely ridiculous and hypocritical to most people.

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civil unrest vs. disruption of the US congress.

neither is acceptable, one was attempting to usurp the transfer of power. the other, was to express anger with society.

Well in Oakland a federal officer was murdered by right-wing extremists.

https://www.courthousenews.com/two-charged-in-murder-of-oakl...

Not the Floyd protests but there is your fellow traveler who attacked Polosi's husband with a hammer.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/man-who-attacked-pelosis-hu...

There is the conservative who planned on killing people at the ACLU and tides foundation.

https://www.marinatimes.com/aug10/news_presidiotides.html

> your fellow traveler

I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but having had to deal with taking care of my aging, disabled parents in 2020 in a city heavily affected by the riots (and COVID), I was and remain bitter about the media inciting the riots, and then the media and progressive politicians enabling and excusing the rioters ("mostly peaceful protests"), all before memory-holing everything for the sake of political expediency.

"Firey but peaceful" were the immortal words uttered by on-location CNN anchor Don Lemon before being hit by a bottle, as arson raged behind him and dozens of people were killed. Conversely, one protestor who was unarmed was killed on J6.

(And before someone "corrects" that - four people died at the capitol, but, two were natural causes and one was from drugs. Given the number of people was easily in the high hundreds K, statistically that's less than should generally be expected.)

Dozens of People were killed?

I've seen estimates as low as 6 and as high as 36. Given deaths attributable to the protests is an extremely contentious issue, with significant sociopolitical implications, a bias in numbers reported is a given, as chaotic environments give chaotic data.

Ie it's possible to make a case for some of the deaths occuring during the time as "caused by", or "happened during". And those wanting to spin it one way will as suits their particular goal.

I'm going with a middle ground, which is against what I'd think is likely, given what I watched unfolding on livestreams - from people there, versus minimising reporting from the media. Major US cities being randomly set on fire is not "peaceful protest".

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