I thought these protests were negatively affecting working class neighborhoods as well by honking horns during the night? I’m not holding a strong opinion on the subject but it’s kind of silly bias to compare this to blm with your phrasing.
Blacks have been through much much worse for hundreds of years, so the truckers going through troubling times for 2 years doesn’t really justify the comparison.
No person protesting during the BLM riots had "gone through much worse for hundreds of years." The truckers had personally experienced the thing they are protesting against (or would be affected by it going forward).
I can’t tell if this comment is implying African Americans have not experienced racism or negative systemic impacts in their own lifetime.
Or is this just pedantry that an individual can’t live for hundreds of years, and ignoring the actual point of if your parents are uneducated dirt poor then you will likely be uneducated dirt poor. Which is what I’m talking about.
Pedantically, are you suggesting that the people protesting were part of the clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccines? If not, then they were given—at most—a year and, more likely, 9–10 months. I also covered that they "would be affected by it going forward."
(I'm not even going to broach the subject of "innocuous jab" at this date. A year ago, that may have been uncontroversial.)
> I thought these protests were negatively affecting working class neighborhoods as well by honking horns during the night?
Truckers aren't burning down neighborhoods or looting small business right now. Yet a good chunk of Americans had no problem with all that US 2 years ago, in the middle of a freaking pandemic. But honking is now where people draw the line?
> Blacks have been through much much worse for hundreds of years, so the truckers going through troubling times for 2 years doesn’t really justify the comparison.
How is truckers struggles any less valid than any other? cause the people demonstrating are white or something?
> How is truckers struggles any less valid than any other?
Far be it from me to downplay the plight of others but it's a vaccine. Literally takes 10 minutes. Every baby in Canada receives a bunch of vaccines on a regular schedule. Many (all?) provinces have laws that state children must be vaccinated before attending school. This is nothing new. Transportation employees that cannot be vaccinated for COVID due to medical contraindication can have a medical exemption.
The truckers see vaccine passports as an oppressive government action, and people getting killed by police officers as no big deal. The BLM protesters see police killings as an oppressive government action, and vaccine passports as no big deal. See the issue here? We as a society need standards for behavior that don't just boil down to "if you think it's justified then you can do whatever you want".
Er, you don't know truckers think people getting killed by police officers is "no big deal". That appears to be something you just made up right now, as there's no obvious way you could possibly know that for sure. Or do you have some specific evidence, like a poll of the truckers on what they thought of BLM last year?
>Er, you don't know truckers think people getting killed by police officers is "no big deal".
I agree that "no big deal" was an overstep, but the argument works fine with "is justified"/"is not justified".
>Or do you have some specific evidence, like a poll of the truckers on what they thought of BLM last year?
Unfortunately not, but based on this poll[1] and demographic factors of truckers (ie. less likely to be college educated, more likely to be republican), it seems pretty reasonable to conclude that most truckers oppose BLM.
If you wanna bring up race, the US and CA black populations have lower rates of vaccination. The truckers want mandates withdrawn. Regardless of their intentions, they're doing a public good which will lend itself to the black population.
> Blacks have been through much much worse for hundreds of years, so the truckers going through troubling times for 2 years doesn’t really justify the comparison.
There’s no way you can objectively back this up. Not to mention you’re saying because some dead people had worse conditions it’s ok to make conditions for the living bad. That type of logic only applies to groups you dislike.
Umm objectively there was slavery and segregation from before the us existed until <70 years ago, which is hundreds of years
I couldn’t follow the logic on the second point, but current generation African Americans were negatively impacted by their great grandparents being slaves - it’s like generational wealth but the opposite.
And where is that lost millions in donations that was supposed to go towards their causes, exactly?
I'm mean first we have those defending hundreds of millions of damage to businesses including black-owned ones and now we have ones defending fraudsters unable to file their financial reports and instead go off with millions worth of donations unaccounted for.
Sounds like a very successful scam executed by the founders to fool lots of people driven by emotion and outrage.
Blacks have been through much much worse for hundreds of years, so the truckers going through troubling times for 2 years doesn’t really justify the comparison.