• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The thin blue line is a symbol for the police. Used in the UK and US.

    As a reaction to Black Lives Matter protests against racist police brutality, the (far-)right coined the term Blue Lives Matter to protest violence against the police.

    Of course, the whole thing is disingenious. They support the police because the police in the US are often racist and they like that the police disproportionately beat up black people. When rioters stormed the US capital after Trump lost the election, plenty were waving blue lives flags, and didn’t actually seem to care that much about endangering the police guarding the building.

    TLDR hyper-partisan US political virtue signaling associated with the far-right.