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I can't stop thinking about white supremacy being described as a "double standard," the apparent hypocrisy that the state would be hostile and violent towards black and indigenous protestors but not white ones.
Racism is a completely internally consistent logic that is only "hypocritical" if you believe equality is baseline and discrimination is aberration.
So this "we want the police to be as respectful to us as these white supremacists" is unworkable where non-whiteness is, in its construction, a threat to white public safety and order.
This might be how insistence on individual criminalization and prosecution (which can only ever lead to sweeping repression) loses sight of the forest for the trees: staying with internally consistent logic, white supremacists are a "threat" secondary to black/indigenous people.
If you're trying to abolish the police or even just decrease its scope via defunding, you are seeking for some dismantling of the state. How could that possibly be received the same as a chaotic putsch attempt that includes members of the police and armed forces?
This isn't an admonishment or anything; the sentiment seems to come from the place of the deep trauma and devastation of seeing non-white people organizing and marching and fighting for safety and freedoms and being brutalized in turn. That hurts deeply and it doesn't fade.
I think it's a matter of reckoning w the state's foreclosure of the possibility of black life, safety and freedom, and moving together from there (trying to be better about what @ashoncrawley described as acknowledging heartbreak and fear and sitting in that honesty/uncertainty)
