The WaPost has put up a timeline of Wednesday, and what is striking to me - who was glued to the TV for hours - was that these violent protests were not limited to the Capitol grounds. Similar assaults on the capitol builds occurred in GA, LA, OH, UT, NM, CO, TX, MN, CA, AZ and OR.
In an exchange with a colleague, he asked how we respect and teach those who believed all the Little Lies until they needed to believe the Big Lie.
I think we are past that point.
When Deray McKesson came to speak at our school, he said that (at least his version of) Black Lives Matter didn't want "no police" they just wanted police to treat Blacks the same as Whites, that communities of color are simultaneously over- and underpoliced. As we saw this summer, police are perfectly willing to deploy "less than lethal" munitions against peaceful protestors when they are Black, and they need to start employing the same tactics against the violent protests from the Right.
Ever since Ruby Ridge/Waco and Timothy McVeigh, law enforcement has handled Right Wing anarchists and terrorists different than Left protestors and anarchists. The lesson of the McVeigh has been overlearned to the point where we basically tolerate massive illegality on the Right for fear they might use violence against the state.
What we are discovering now is that this tactic hasn't worked, and it needs to change.
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