{"id":4205,"date":"2021-01-12T00:27:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:27:46","slug":"whiteness-is-at-the-core-of-the-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4205","title":{"rendered":"Whiteness is at the core of the insurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“the whiteness of the insurrectionists acted as a shield \u2014 protecting them from being seen as a threat before, and while, they stormed the Capitol. For activists who endured violence at the hands of police when they were merely asking for them to stop executing Black people, this inequity is why they protested in the first place.”
…
“As I reported in September<\/a>, research from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project found that out of 7,750 Black Lives Matter protests across 2,400 locations across the country, 93 percent of them were peaceful \u2014 yet images of burning and headlines of looting were plentiful, with the president referring to the protesters as \u201cthugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New research<\/a> from the organization compares the difference in law enforcement response between left-wing protests (anti-Trump, pro-Biden, Count Every Vote, Black Lives Matter, Abolish ICE) and right-wing protests (pro-Trump, anti-Biden, Back the Blue, QAnon, Stop the Steal, etc.), finding that law enforcement was more than twice as likely to use force against liberal demonstrations between May and November.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What\u2019s evident is that the organizers of Wednesday\u2019s rallies were not taken seriously, as white extremists are often infantilized and given room to work out their feelings and blow off steam. We are told\u00a0we need to listen to them<\/a>, to try to understand their plight and psychology.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/8\/22221078\/us-capitol-trump-riot-insurrection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“the whiteness of the insurrectionists acted as a shield \u2014 protecting them from being seen as a threat before, and while, they stormed the Capitol. For activists who endured violence at the hands of police when they were merely asking for them to stop executing Black people, this inequity is why they protested in the first place.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“As I reported in September, research from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project found that out of 7,750 Black Lives Matter protests across 2,400 locations across the country, 93 percent of them were peaceful \u2014 yet images of burning and headlines of looting were plentiful, with the president referring to the protesters as \u201cthugs.\u201d
\nNew research from the organization compares the difference in law enforcement response between left-wing protests (anti-Trump, pro-Biden, Count Every Vote, Black Lives Matter, Abolish ICE) and right-wing protests (pro-Trump, anti-Biden, Back the Blue, QAnon, Stop the Steal, etc.), finding that law enforcement was more than twice as likely to use force against liberal demonstrations between May and November.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s evident is that the organizers of Wednesday\u2019s rallies were not taken seriously, as white extremists are often infantilized and given room to work out their feelings and blow off steam. We are told we need to listen to them, to try to understand their plight and psychology.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1138,221,1135,1133,642,1134,368,1022],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol-building","tag-donald-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-mob","tag-race","tag-riot","tag-white","tag-white-supremacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}