Why does BLM make it so hard to support them? Maybe if they just focused on their (admirable) goals, we'd get something done, but the police officer seems perfectly justified in this scenario (unlike others) and there's no reason to criticize it. Are they blind? Or are they just trolling us?
There are extremist elements that carry far too much currency in BLM. The good goals it has have to compete for attention with nutters calling for the police force to be abolished.
This has, over time, become my general attitude. I think a lot of what they want to accomplish is important and some of the discrepancies in our criminal justice system need to be frankly, honestly and finally addressed, and that runs much deeper than just police shootings, which I view as just a symptom of a broader problem but a decent place to start since the argument is simple and easy for laypeople to understand.
It's too bad that the loudest voices tend to be the most extreme and BLM is often its own worst enemy and shoots itself in the foot unnecessarily.
