I love how there are multiple comments downplaying the $2 billion number.

It just goes to show how brainwashed people really are when it comes to numbers like $2 billion.

Of course, compare that number to Elon Musk’s wealth, and $2 billion doesn’t seem like all that much. Compare it to what I have, however, and the difference is almost incomprehensible. I make $80,000 a year. Even if I saved every single dollar I earned, it would take me 25,000 years to accumulate $2 billion. Let that sink in for a moment.

$2 billion in insured property damage is an absolutely massive amount of damage caused by the BLM riots. However, that still doesn't change the point I'm making, which is that the meme is misinformation.

Your argument is that memes don't tell the whole story and never can. That's a completely different argument, and it doesn't address my point.

My point is that the meme is deliberately presenting a misleading picture of what happened. The fact that the damage amounted to $2 billion is directly relevant to that discussion.

The meme implies that the BLM riots caused relatively little property damage. They did not. The estimated insured property damage was approximately $2 billion.

Downplaying that figure to make the damage appear insignificant is textbook misinformation, particularly when it's being used to push a very specific political narrative.

And let's be clear about something: my personal opinions on BLM and the riots are probably very different from what most people here assume. In fact, the person I originally responded to would probably disagree with a good deal of what I have to say about both BLM and the riots themselves.

But that's beside the point.

I am specifically and intentionally calling out the propaganda and misinformation presented in this meme. Nothing more, nothing less.

You don't have to agree with my opinions about BLM to acknowledge that a meme misrepresenting the scale of property damage is misleading. Those are two entirely separate issues, and conflating them is exactly how political misinformation gets a free pass.