Just because people don't want to be inconvenienced doesn't mean they don't support reform.
I support reform on criminal and social justice, along with civil rights, education, the environment, election, immigration, healthcare, and several other topics.
I call out things in groups I support like criminal opportunists and supremacists hiding behind the groups to promote their agendas and not being thrown out because groups worried about their supporter size shrinking.
However, just because I support them, doesn't mean I want to be inconvenienced by reform. Call me a hypocrite or call me unempathic but when I leave my house, I don't want to have to take longer trips to work because protesters are blocking roads. I don't wanna have to go a night without basic supplies because the community is protesting.
Over the past twenty years, I have experienced enough reform that has had negative impacts when it's supposed to create equality. Where companies will deny employment because of my gender or ethnicity and the fact that it doesn't net them tax breaks. Companies deny they hire for these reasons but not only have I experienced this, as former management, I've seen it.
Again, call me entitled, privileged, or unempathic. Claim I don't support reform if I'm not willing to make myself have to suffer for others to benefit. Call me racist if the constant gun violence, police brutality, and other social problems are slowly unphasing myself to the point I am starting not to care because after one hundred and fifty years of protesting, riots, and voting, barely anything has changed and we're still calling for reform on the same issues. I know who I am, I know what I stand for, and if I don't fit your idea of what a reformist should be, I don't care anymore. Americans are hard headed and spiteful, don't turn someone against the causes you support to spite you because you wanna act like a haughty elitist.
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