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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares about Chicago? Nobody.[/quote]

Except when a white cop shoots a black guy ........... and then Chicago matters and BLM decides that it warrants protesting and inconveniencing shoppers.[/quote]

Ah, so inconvenienced rich white shoppers is more of a big deal than a cop gunning down a teenager with 15 bullets and then lying about it.

A teenage black life is worth less than a white consumer being delayed 30 minutes while shopping.

That's basically what's being said here...  And sadly it proves BLM's point.
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Well, not exactly.  The implicit premise of this kind of protest is that it is ethical to inflict costs on uninvolved people, such as random shoppers, so that they will pressure politicians to appease the protestors.  I take issue with that premise, but BLM is making a tactical error.  Attempting to hold whites as a whole collectively accountable for criminal conduct by the police will merely prompt a response where whites are incentivized to hold blacks collectively accountable for black crime as a whole, which is orders of magnitude more prevalent.  And whites remain the majority and are well armed.  I just don't see how that endgame looks good for BLM.  [/quote]

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