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Reflecting on past mistakes isn't necessarily demoralizing, realizing that this isnt a new thing is good for future analysis. Hopefully everyone will come out too when the following George Floyd gets inevitably murdered
That's a bad example precisely because people did come out for George Floyd. What all these cases have in common is video evidence. A next one should not be acceptable, that's a defeating attitude right there.
George Floyd was famously a movement for Black Lives Matter, and there was no suggestion of general strike
There was also no absolute systemic instability at that point. the seeds of it were there, but there was still hope to change the system.
There was hope to change the system until they started killing white people, suddenly reform is out of the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you reached that conclusion, but some people did decades ago already, and it's good to follow the advice of those who got to the right conclusion before you
I get your perspective. I just don't agree. The response has depended on good documentation, and clear innocence. Even Good didn't inspire this kind of response. Pretti is someone who clearly had the capacity to do harm, being armed, and yet didn't even draw. He couldn't even vaguely be conceive of as "armed", unlike Good (regardless of how much of a stretch that was). And Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by people who were, by the way, organized and galvanized due to events involving Floyd, Garcia, and Martinez.
Aside from that - I knew where this was going when dubya hit office. But I understand people trying their best to make things work, and knew it would take a lot to get the ball rolling, particularly with the naive bent on the "left". ..and I understand that people of any color will believe whatever fits their world view. If they're wrong (and we all are, to some degree), some are lucky enough to have a willingness to grow, or to have that world view break. The rest live in their assumptions and pay the psychological and physical price for their views until they're dust.
Good luck out there.