Facts don’t matter. I have finally come around to accepting this as a fact of life. Activists, politicians, professors, actors, even news anchors throw around phrases like “black genocide”, “white privilege”, “Silence is violence”, or conversely, “speech is violence”, and no facts are required. If a strong feeling is invoked by shouting the phrase then it is legitimate, and anyone who responds with facts is a racist and a fascist.
So I was not surprised to see a Rasmussen poll that says that over 60% of the public approve of black lives matter. I can just imagine the phone call. Citizen picks up the phone. “Do you approve of black lives matter?” Citizen thinks about his job, his family, his reputation, his vulnerable business. “Uh, why yes, of course I do.”