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Tusinski: Blue lives never made a difference — they don't exist

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A spam message from one of my old companions showed up on my feed as I swiped through Instagram this mid year. It was the tallness of the George Floyd fights, and posts calling for racial equity and mass dissent lit up the web — Instagram specifically. However this companion posted the inverse. He shared posts announcing " blue lives matter !" He unyieldingly safeguarded the police and derided dissidents walking for racial value. This late spring cemented my conviction that " blue lives " don't make any difference since they don't exist. The "development" he was a piece of exists exclusively to ensure a calling instead of the unchangeable and exceptionally close to home personality of Black Americans that Black Lives Matter looks to secure. Presently, let me be forthright. My uncle is a cop, and half of my family falls determinedly into the blue lives matter camp. I have seen that side of the story. I have seen the psychological and actual cost b...

Blue Lives don’t always interest Trump supporters

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Lara Brown thinks about the remarkable Capitol putsch, contending that it uncovered twofold principles and frauds among Trump's allies. Before the 6th January, I had assumed that the Capitol was one among the foremost secure buildings within the world. Before last Wednesday, that building – the pride and prestige of America and therefore the symbol of its vibrant democracy – had not been breached since the burning of Washington by British Army in 1814. Before then, the Stars and Bars had never been within the walls of the Capitol, not even during the darkest days of the war . Be that as it may, on the sixth of January, America confronted likely its greatest security emergency since 9/11. It was, in every sense, unprecedented. Why was the Capitol not shielded from a known threat? How could such a monumental breach are allowed to occur? This was hardly unexpected; it had been foreseeable and foreseen. Large groups of Trump supporters had been vocal about their intentions to descend...

Blue Lives Matter : Blue Life

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It is consistently illicit to execute a cop. Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who shot his ex Shaneka Thompson and afterward voyaged 200 miles from Baltimore to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, knew this before he shot and executed two NYPD officials—and afterward himself. It was this occurrence in 2014 that started an implied development under the pennant of "Blue Lives Matter." Since its commencement, it has become evident that this occasion of preparation copies both as a social development and a purposeful publicity arm of the police state. This indistinct qualification among state and society, the political and the social, delivers the ideal conditions for the police state to acquire further impact over an open arena that has effectively criticized negative sentiments as articulations of (Black) guiltiness, (Black) skepticism, an instance of the (Black) blues, (Black) pathology, or an assortment of different maladjustments and reserved inclinations.   Darkness, obviously, is rarely just incide...