BLM: not all black lives matter

Spiked: "So now cops are racist even when they save a black person’s life?" - "The fury over the killing of Ma’Khia Bryant has exposed the cynicism and hypocrisy of the woke elites."

The tragic Bryant affair really reveals the moralistic impulse behind contemporary ‘anti-racism’. What we have in wokeness is not a continuation of the historical struggles for greater racial equality and fairer forms of justice, but rather a constant hunt for proof that white supremacy still stalks the US and that we need experts, activists and the occasional riot to keep it in check.

It is this tendency – this need, in fact – to read every situation and encounter through the lens of racism that led so many to assume that Reardon was another racist cop and Bryant was another George Floyd. In the 21st century ‘anti-racism’ has become an industry. It provides many people with moral authority, financial comfort and a sense of virtuous power. They were not about to let another possible white-cop-vs-black-person situation go unexploited. They need this stuff. And the girl who was in danger from Bryant? Meh. Not all black lives matter, it seems.

I once saw a YouTube video from a guy who critiques rhetoric and debating and he said that one of the things that makes Ben Shapiro so dominant in debates is that, occasionally, he'll agree with you.  It's a mark of a rational person that they won't defend irrational thoughts.  This incident in Columbus seems to be one of those situations where the overwhelming evidence indicates the police prevented the death or serious injury of somebody on the receiving end of a roundhouse-punch stabbing.  Seems like a good point to note that, golly, not all cops are bastards.

But no.  They have their narrative, their cash, and their homes in Topanga Canyon.  Nothing's going to stop this gravy train.