The “Peaceful Protestors†Are More Destructive Than the Looters and Rioters
Who will rebuild our police forces, cops of all races, ethnicities and backgrounds who do the dangerous and demanding work of enforcing the law and keeping civil order?
By Jeremy Carl • June 8, 2020
Whenever conservatives castigate the blatant lawlessness, vandalism, threats, and violence that have regularly been present in the nationwide George Floyd protests, liberals accuse us of failing to distinguish “peaceful protestors†from looters and rioters.
Superficially, this distinction makes sense. Looters and rioters are an imminent threat to public welfare. Peaceful protestors, by definition, are not. And to the extent that their protests are truly peaceful, they are unquestionably protected by the First Amendment.
But the non-violent protestors actually are far more damaging to the long-term fabric of our civil society than the rioters. Though many of the protestors have entirely sincere intentions, they are dangerous because their protests—often using ritual humiliation of their adversaries—are based fundamentally on lies and slander about white people, about police, and about America.
Just as important, the protestors have bullied a who’s who of American companies into supporting their movement: for example, there is a McDonald’s ad celebrating, among others, the thug Michael Brown—who even the Obama justice department determined was killed through an entirely lawful use of force after committing a strong arm robbery. We also saw financial predator Jamie Dimon, CEO of Chase, kneeling for Black Lives Matter in a painfully cringeworthy scene. As Saagar Enjeti put it brilliantly, “If your populist uprising is sponsored by Amazon, Target, Starbucks, Nike and Citibank, then it’s not a populist uprising. It’s just professional managerial class white liberalism.â€
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