Anyone who urged a humane response to the BLM protests has a reasonable standing to urge a humane response to dealing with breaches of Covid rules. But those who railed against the BLM protesters and wanted to see a crackdown by the police or were outraged by the police being called out would be a wee bit hypocritical if they took that tack.
This is the reason we like to say the rule of law applies in our country. The alternative is rule by fiat or the whims of those with power. If rules need to be followed by others but they should be flexible when they apply to us, then there's no rule of law. And this also applies to the making of the law too. If only conservatives are allowed to pass laws and right-wingers consider that they are entitled to ignore laws passed by leftwing governments, then we don't have the rule of law. That's a recipe for subjective value judgements and the one-way view of rights: I have the right to do what I want and I also have the right to stop others from doing what they want to do.
As pointed out in the article I posted, Tucker Carlson and the FoxNews crew were quite happy to call for a crackdown on BLM protests and yet they were outraged that the Canadian government would break up the trucker blockade which lasted much longer. Hypoocrisy much?
This is the reason we like to say the rule of law applies in our country. The alternative is rule by fiat or the whims of those with power. If rules need to be followed by others but they should be flexible when they apply to us, then there's no rule of law. And this also applies to the making of the law too. If only conservatives are allowed to pass laws and right-wingers consider that they are entitled to ignore laws passed by leftwing governments, then we don't have the rule of law. That's a recipe for subjective value judgements and the one-way view of rights: I have the right to do what I want and I also have the right to stop others from doing what they want to do.
As pointed out in the article I posted, Tucker Carlson and the FoxNews crew were quite happy to call for a crackdown on BLM protests and yet they were outraged that the Canadian government would break up the trucker blockade which lasted much longer. Hypoocrisy much?