To be clear, when you're looking at the United States and seeing a totalitarian streak developing that seeks to strip individual thought and replace it with total, unquestionable allegiance to a particular movement...

...you're talking about Black Lives Matter protests???

That's only one element of it. If you don't support or agree with Kap, you get cancelled. Cancel culture is a thing...

The ****?

I took his OP to mean that the left was jumping on this bandwagon for their political gain but don't really give a **** about any "movement", just being opportunistic.
Or @he could be one of those people that think Soros and co are behind this and it's all part of some "plan". In that case I would need to review my score.

Cops washing protesters' feet. Let the healing begin

https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/07/white...olina-forgive/

Yes and no.
To be clear there is of course a legitimate concern that is raised here and the BLM movement is justified in giving a voice to that concern as racial disparities exist and there seems little disagreement on this issue (except from the far right I presume).
But when I look at the way this discourse is handeled, it's focus isn't on making productive changes to adress these disparities (as well as police reform) but rather the proclamation of a rather fatalistic view that the black community is systemically oppressed and actively persecuted by the police.

I couldn't imagine doing that unless I had some major guilt for doing some racist **** in my past.

Not specifically aimed at the left, rather pointing out the obvious that this is about power and very little about empathy.
I think people should be called out for what they are really doing here.

Yep

Oh good, another person popping in to say that the protesters have no proposed reforms based on never having looked into it at all.

Meanwhile, protesters are out there making progress despite your tut tutoring about virtue signaling

https://www.axios.com/minneapolis-ci...e5f8cea0f.html

Fairfax County, VA officer is fired, charged with assault for cavalierly tazing a man on Friday

Policing is a safer job than roofing

Right, there was so much civil discourse going on that I might've startet to to miss the forest for the trees esp. after that compassionate dialogue with the mayor of Minneapolis.

To quote your own source:

Really productive.

Those models exist and in greater detail than that one article. Of course it is still an open question how much of those proposals will be adopted. But achieving negotiation and having already secured concessions is progress. It does not all happen overnight.

And achieving that would not have been possible without acting out while thought-policing everyone that remotely disagrees?

Not anyone's idea of a democracy, who has remained somewhat reasonable in this day and age.

It's so important to remember this. The vast majority of protestors are peaceful and want it to be peaceful.

The media and the establishment likes to focus on the violence, which is one of the reasons the violence is so stupid. It is not the mains story though - not even closee.

What are some positions that you feel are being thought policed?

Uh, yes? You think this would have happened without protests of this kind of scale? lol

Imagine looking at the politics from the United States and being like "yeah this massive change would definitely have happened if interested parties just sat down and talked it out" lmao

It will take a war to change police culture and i doubt the politicians have the stomach for it.

They will continue to make most symbolic moves until they think the passions are down but then pull back.

The most telling thing for me is not the abuses caught on tape but rather the brazenness of the 57 Buffalo cops who stepped down from their emergency response in protest of the two cops who pushed that 75 year old man over and then lied saying he merely 'fell' on their report.

The police sent a signal 'the blue wall is strong and we will have our brothers back if they abuse and lie about citizens'.

I could get past the push that lead to the fall. with some internal police discipline, if the cop just said 'I never meant for him to fall. It was wrong but an accident'. But the lying on the police report is what terrifies me.

I think the masses of guys who are in jail now due to police report lies would shock even those of us who know they have always lied a lot.

I don’t think much of anything changes until more cops are fired and charged with crimes as if they were a normal citizen. These protests will eventually end and things will go back to being the same unless the cops know there are consequences for their actions.

Wow, who could have possibly foreseen Matteo here dropping racial slurs at black people? I'm sure that this will be a one off thing that will never require any more moderation.

you know who got cancelled? Kaepernick. you know who didnt get cancelled? Ben Roethlisberger when he raped multiple women. Kobe when he raped a women. countless powerful men when they raped and took advantage and stole.

Normal people: "Black people are people and should have equal rights! If you don't like that, I don't want to be friends with you"

Matteo: "Evil thought police are running amok! Don't tell me people should think that!"