Comparing 1/6 to the BLM riots

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California has its share of conservative libertarians, too!

Ronald Reagan, after all, was Governor of California before he became President......

It's true the intention was there, but again, if it was democrats who threatened to hang Pence for example and stormed a building, people wouldn't think it was near as big of deal, and the democrats would get a lot more support, so it's hard to take 1/6 as seriously, when so many have this double standard on it, if that makes sense.

The Vice President was threatened with hanging because he refused to do Trump’s criminal bidding. He refused to do something unconstitutional that would have undermined the credibility of the United States as a viable democracy.

It was an attempted coup—pure and simple.

No double standard. If the Democrats did this, I would have called all this treason, too. It would also have been an attempted coup.

Any effort to compare 1/6 to the BLM riots misses the point entirely.

1/6 isn't about the misled citizens who tried to breach the capital.

It is about the plan of those in power to stay in power and subvert the constitution. 1/6 was only one visual in a campaign that was largely fought behind the scenes.

BLM is about the powerless expressing frustration at being powerless.

1/6 is the powerful trying to take away the voice of the people because the people decided the powerful needed to be replaced.

There is nothing to compare. Comparing is a distraction to avoid talking about the underlying issues.

Why BLM and the "Awokeining" of 2020 was an insurrection and revolutionary.

Burning down a few police stations and attempting to attack many with police in them. Police stations are government buildings.

Replace understood history with theirs(America started in 1619, not 1776, racism is a feature, not a bug etc)

Wanting the elimination of established social structures(nuclear family)

Weoponinizing of words and terms for a political agenda

Tearing down of statues

Removal of people, and attempted removal of people who don't conform with the agenda often by intimidation and without due process.

All of the above are recognized features of revolutions. Whether you agree with the change BLM wanted or not does not matter for this definition issue.

And in the short term, the "awokining" has been partially successful in its objectives, while the 1/6 attempted coup completely failed.

To argue that the BLM did not directly plan the riots is both truthful and somewhat misleading. The planning by the trained Marxists was in setting the stage to take advantage when the opportunity came and Dereck Chauvin presented that opportunity, oh how he did.


I began this thread by comparing the BLM riots to 1/6 and in case it got lost in the back and forth since found 1/6 worse for reasons listed in the OP. Other reasons are given since buttressed the case that 1/6 was worse. The reason for me comparing 1/6 to the BLM was that I am tired of 1/6 apologists using the BLM riots to constantly downplay and excuse 1/6. This should work both ways what happened in 2020 should not be downplayed and excused.

There is a school of thought that one needs put the lesser threat aside to deal with the greater threat. I disagree with that strategy in a lot of situations.

What comparison exactly?..last I recall BLM didn't try to storm the capital to prevent the election or rally to hang mike pence.