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  Sounds about white.
context: "Had the tables been turned, and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned." - direct quote of Republican Senator Ron Johnson, March 11, 2021 >
  
  If he wasn't concerned or felt in danger in any way then why wasn't he out there greeting "his people" instead of hiding away like the other congresspeople? I mean he didn't feel endangered or concerned at all and he was all for "stopping the steal" to the point of trying to get fake electors to Pence, so why wasn't he out in front of the riot leading the way? >
  
  He was probably in his office directing them. >
  
  Over his phone like Green, Bobert, Gosar, Gohmert, et al. Hawley too but he was running…away. >
  
  Brave Josh Hawley ran away.
  Bravely ran away away.
  When danger reared it's ugly head,
  He bravely turned his tail and fled.
  Yes, brave Josh Hawley turned about
  And gallantly he chickened out.
  Swiftly taking to his feet,
  He beat a very brave retreat.
  Bravest of the brave, Josh Hawley! >
  
  r/ExpectedMontyPython >
  
  Nobody expects the Spanish inquisiton! >
  
  This was already obvious to anyone who has an ounce of critical thinking.  Those Bundy family nuts pointed assault rifles at cops and then later took over a government office in an armed assault.  They were treated with kid gloves the whole time.  I’ll let you guess why. >
  
  I can’t qwhite figure it out. >
  
  The Bonus Army was met with tanks because homeless WWI vets wanted benefits from the government. >
  
  Thanks Patton. >
  
  And Eisenhower. >
  
  Don't forget Douglas MacArthur. >
  
  Or the Alamo. >
  
  What was that thing we were supposed to remember? >
  
  Not to run with scissors >
  
  No shit >
  
  Right. We literally have pics of a hundred Nat Guard soldiers lined up on the steps of the SCOTUS during peaceful BLM protests like a year before. >
  
  As a White person I always thought those folks were beyond stupid. This country enshrined Slavery in the constitution… >
  
  Should have just formed a northern union instead of making a 3/5ths + senate compromise with the south. >
  
  Nah, we should have just strung up every rebel when we had the chance. >
  
  As soon as they seceded anyways,  we should have ripped the compromises out. >
  
  We did. Conservatives on the Supreme Court just made sure systemic racism could continue after they destroyed the 14th amendment for 80+ years >
  
  No we didn't,  we left the senate alive. We should have tossed the compromise of having a upper house (the senate). >
  
  So here's how I see that conversation going:
  North: We've won. We kicked your asses. You lost. Now it's time for some freedom for the slaves and comeuppance on the slave holders/masters.
  South: Now lookee here. You won, we lost, fair and square. But look around you. See how many Negroes there are? Do you know how to deal with them? No. You don't. Why, I bet they'll be rebelling within the month.
  Naw, you need us to stay down here and regulate them Negroes. Keep an eye on em. We know their tricky and sloth-like ways. We know how sneaky they can be first hand! Why, they'd just walk all over yous. >
  
  I was convinced that even the white Walmartians were going to be repelled with force. I’m surprised as hell that they got in alive. For me, it’s proof that law enforcement is at least MAGA sympathetic. >
  
  They got helping hands down the stairs on the way out.  If this was a mob of black people the Capitol steps would have run red with blood. >
  
  Would cops have moved barricades aside for a crowd of black men yelling anti-government slogans and waving flagpoles and hockey sticks?
  Yeah, didn't think so. >
  
  They would have been shot long before their crowd was allowed to even be that big >
  
  They would have been shot before leaving their bed without committing any crime. >
  
  The real bombshell (not really) is that Cheney insisted that any language on this topic be excised from the final report. >
  
  Finally we're starting to talk about the elephant in the room, that if the terrorists weren't white and mostly Christian they would have been arrested the night before for transportation weapons, and conspiracy , and if there would have been an insurrection it would have been a blood bath. >
  
  
  if the terrorists weren't white and mostly Christian
  
  Ah yes, those who follow the teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
  Teachings such as: "Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. And HANG MIKE PENCE!" >
  
  Episcopalians have been growing on me. >
  
  So they are genuinely nice folks… and reluctantly Christian… that’s awesome.  We need a religion that just focuses on being nice to people.  Like the one commandment should be, don’t be an asshat. >
  
  
  A spokesman for Jan. 6 panel member Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told The Washington Post last month that committee staffers had “submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement” and that she would not “sign onto any ‘narrative’ that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement.”
  
  so regardless if they were facts, she wasn't including them.  definitely not bias.  Thanks, Liz.  We celebrate your mediocrity.
  Edit: this is an illustration of how "back the blue" became about preventing critique of the police IN OPPOSITION TO protecting the police when the two options are at odds which they often are. >
  
  what is often a "narrative" for sheltered white people is quite simply "reality" for a lot of other folk, either non-sheltered (aka poor) whites or PoC >
  
  precisely. >
  
  Walker’s testimony echoed the observations of many Americans, including President Joe Biden, who noted the stark difference in the law enforcement response to protests in D.C. following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd and the lax security at the Capitol on Jan. 6. >
  
  We've been saying this since it started on January 6, 2021. 
  Now we're approaching the second anniversary and it finally gets a headline. >
  
  I was seething about that the day it happened, I'm pretty sure I said as much here, on the day and several times since.
  We had just watched a solid years of BLM protests being met with violence, and then we watch a literal coup attempt be handled with kids gloves. >
  
  None of them would have been allowed to leave the area. They all would have immediately been arrested and charged with crimes - at least the ones that weren't shot to death. And many would have been killed that day had the crowd been black instead of white. >
  
  Yep and would not have needed “help” finding them either >
  
  If they were black nobody would’ve died inside the Capitol Building, they all would have died on the steps. >
  
  We’ve seen this time and time again. 
  Think of the Bundy standoff in 2014 where ranchers had an armed standoff occurred between state and federal officials and ranchers, who were assisted by the likes of groups like the Oathkeepers, because their feelings got hurt when their cattle were to be confiscated after they let them illegally graze for years on publicly owned land. 
  Now think of every protest against things like white supremacy, nationalism, and police brutality that has transpired in the last several years. Isn’t it peculiar that the police virtually always put their backs to the likes of white supremacists and face BLM protestors while holding their weapons? 
  Of course, it’s basic math, but what the house sargent said is true - had the January 6th seditionists been a few shades darker, they wouldn’t have even made it to the steps of the Capitol Building. >
  
  They let those Nazis waltz into the Capitol building and smear shit on the walls.
  I am sure some of them would have even joined in if we didn't live in the age of the camera phone. >
  
  If they would.have been black they would all be charged with murder for the people that were killed during the insurrection. I don't know why more people aren't talking about this. The sentences would be much harsher if they were sentencing black people. >
  
  Tell us something we didn't already know. >
  
  Cats use their tails for balance and have nearly 30 individual bones in them! >
  
  
  I have nipples Greg, could you milk me? >
  
  Thank you Tom >
  
  There would have been semi trailers full body bags. >
  
  Yup. It would be called the "Capitol Massacre" if they were black. >
  
  Naw they would give it some heroic sounding name and call it “the first terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.” 
  Then every Black person from D.C. to California would be harassed, searched and monitored by law enforcement just for knowing or looking like someone who was there. Including every Black officer on duty at the Capitol that day
  Edit: A word >
  
  Truth! And every black person flying into DC would be subject to "random" enhanced security screening. >
  
  And then coincidentally red states would propose laws revoking black's citizenships almost on demand >
  
  Failure to make swift and severe examples of the perpetrators of an attempted coup will serve as encouragement to future plotters. It is written. >
  
  Would of been the Jan 6 massacre. >
  
  I was saying the exact same thing as it was happening. I was remembering the BLM protests that summer and how rampant police brutality was. I couldn’t even keep up with all the videos of it. 
  Then these shitheads had an hour and a half to waltz around the besieged capitol building. Police kindly asking them to leave. >
  
  if anybody saw Joe Scarborough's angry response the next morning, he put it out there plain as day: if they were black they'd be gunned down on the steps, if they were Muslim there'd be snipers on the roofs.
  We hardly talk about Jan 6 from a racial perspective, but if you know you know and America's collective racism was on full display for the world to see on that day, because ONLY American white people can storm the fucking US Capitol and only suffer a handful of casualties and still be fellated to this day as "heroes" by a significant portion of the population.
  And please hold off on the usual "well I'M not that way" responses. If you're on this sub I'm sure you're not, but you know damn well who I'm talking about >
  
  
  “You’re looking at somebody who would get stopped by the police for driving a high-value government vehicle. No other reason,” Walker said.
  
  solid truth
  insert conservatives saying "but we had a black president, racism is dead" >
  
  
  insert conservatives saying "but we had a black president, racism is dead"
  
  Quote said black president: "[had I stormed the white house like the white guy just did] I would have been shot." >
  
  Or disabled.
  A couple years back a relatively small group of people with disabilities gathered in Congress and participated in a completely peaceful act of civil disobedience. Why? To demand affordable healthcare. They were literally dragged out, many were elderly, or in wheelchairs. Many were arrested. Simply for asking for the same rights to healthcare 99% of every other major industrialized nation provides.
  Whereas on Jan 6th domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol with intentions to kill members of Congress and the VP, install a dictator, and overthrow democracy. The vast majority walked away from it with literally no consequences whatsoever. Many still consider themselves heroes, and only wish they had used more violence. >
  
  “…would be vastly different if ______ were Black” applies to most areas of life in the US.