“Stop protesting, bottle your anger and wait 5 months and vote” is the worst take: Firstly, voter suppression (enacted through voter ID laws, voter purges and felony disenfranchisement, which disproportionately affects POC) https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020/
Secondly, this is not the time to be controlling other people’s anger; let people be angry (and grieve). People are literally dying, there is an imminent threat of economic depression, people are angry.
Finally, electoral politics cannot fix a broken system if neither party is revolutionary. Both major American political parties are devoted in some way to upholding the status quo, there is little trust that either party can bring about the desired change
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