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They Do Not Care
It is time that many of you accept some difficult truths.
Unfortunately, if you have any friends, family, or loved ones who still openly denies the existence of systemic racism, who pretends ANTIFA is a pale horse, and BLM is death riding upon it, then you must understand this is not from a lack of information. This is not from misunderstanding or even an inability to understand. This is because they wholeheartedly do not care.
These are lies they want to believe. This is a narrative they choose to believe. No amount of truth, compassion or discussion will persuade them from this story where protesters are mostly a bunch of violent, Black animals threatening the gentle, Antebellum like peace of the Whiteness.
No. This is not ignorance.
Ignorance implies a lack of knowledge or information. We live in an age where a wealth of evidence is readily available about systemic racism. We live in an age where one can easily read about racists policing. But they do not because they genuinely do not care.
The MAGA/BlueLivesMatters/White Evangelicals types do not care if over 90% of BLM protests have been peaceful. In fact, they will outright ignore repeated incidents of Boogaloo Boys, White Supremacists, and literal Nazis instigating violence at peaceful protests, while instead claiming these individuals are “Innocent, Fed…
