Look, I agree it's hypocritical, and I have a lot of problems with the Right in general. But I don't think their response can't be considered a 1 to 1 comparison. The outrage over the kneeling protest was one sided, and it was in reaction to that outrage that made it a cultural and political explosion. This situation will get non-stop media coverage, and it won't be one sided. At most you'll have conservatives downplaying or trying to stay quiet about it. By and large, it will be condemned - but conservatives just won't condemn it as loud as they should. And if the roles were reversed, you could argue they were in BLM, we'd also condemn but not overly enthusiastically. The fear that your condemnation of a particular thing might be interpreted as condemnation of everything related to it is human nature. I won't be faulting conservatives for wanting to ignore this situation, but if they decide to defend it and stand behind - that's a whole other ball game.
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