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Protesters attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020.
Protesters attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020.
According to multiple surveys, the effect of the riots which occurred at around the same time as the BLM protests is quite different from what occurred with previous waves of rioting. First, many of the participants in the major riots were white. Second, there has been no clear call for Nixonian law and order following the riots, but rather greater public acceptance of the BLM movement's unsupported claims that contemporary structural racism explains why police shoot unarmed black men or violent crime plagues inner-city neighbourhoods. While 57 percent of Americans disagree with the protestors' radical slogan, "defund the police," an astounding 29 percent support it. This is so despite the deaths of a number of black people during the riots and the fact the riots have coincided with a steep rise in the number of black homicide deaths in inner-city neighbourhoods due to a "Ferguson Effect" of police reducing their presence in these areas.
Comment: There used to be regulations, somewhat effective against monopolies, that were designed to support the individual as well as kept big biz on track. Now the government is chasing a runaway industry where rights and protections are disappearing and societal freedoms are being 'rewritten' or outright deleted. Something does need to be erased, but it isn't the legal binders that protect personal rights.
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