After George Floyd was horrifically murdered by officer Derek Chauvin, nearly 7 in 10 Americans believed that the killing of George Floyd was a sign of broader problems in the treatment of black people by police, including almost half of all Republicans. Tapped specifically by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican Tim Scott had legislation ready to ban chokeholds and regulate no-knock warrants. Chauvin was ultimately and correctly convicted of murder, but a bipartisan bill in Congress was ready to prevent the sort of slips through the cracks that allowed Floyd’s death in the first place.
Yet Black Lives Matter rioters lit up Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the entirely justified police shooting of alleged rapist Jacob Blake the exact same way they did Floyd’s Minneapolis. The terms of the BLM riots weren’t unclear. They were nonexistent.
That doesn’t matter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is definitely not the illegitimate love child of Fidel Castro. The prime minister explicitly said that he participated in protests like BLM when he “supported the people expressing their concerns and their issues.” The truckers, who have a simple demand to end the second-class citizenship of unvaccinated Canadians, were accused by Trudeau of expressing “hateful rhetoric, violence towards fellow citizens, and a disrespect, not just of science.”
In Trudeau’s logic, truckers opposing vaccine mandates in a country that is nearly entirely vaccinated constitute “violence” and “disrespect” toward “the science.” But burning buildings down just for kicks? That’s just an expression of a valid concern! Got it?
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