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It's Not the Same

Y'all. I'm in a mood. I am in a mood. And while it's not generally my style to blog condemnations, you've gone and caught me in a mood and I'm gonna say something. I opened my inbox today to an email about the domestic terrorist acts of 6 January 2021 that contained a statement that I want to share with you. I really do. But because I'm not sure what the rules are around directly quoting an email, I think the safest thing to do would be to paraphrase. This person said that what happened yesterday (which he referred to simply as violence) "punctuated" the feelings we've all been having about the "rioting, burning, looting, and violence" of the past year. He went on to talk in more detail about the Black Lives Matter protests of the past year using words like destruction, serious injury, and deaths. All of this about the BLM protests, and one tiny line about what happened yesterday: that it "punctuated" the feelings that have been