Matt Walsh

One of the most enduring misconceptions about the BLM riots of 2020, and this is a misconception that even many conservatives hold to this day, is the idea that these mobs comprised mostly of black people turned to violence and mass lawlessness because they were outraged

about their perceptions of police brutality.

The idea is that when they set the local Wendy's on fire or murdered a security guard before looting the pawn shop on the corner, black rioters were primarily motivated by racial narratives.

They'd been fed by the Democrat party, the media, the school system.

And if you're on the right, you probably recognize that those narratives are fake.

If you're on the left, you think they're accurate.

But no matter where you stand politically, the consensus among most Americans is that the BLM riots of 2020 were a direct response to specific events and how those events were portrayed, most notably George Floyd's overdose and the relentless racial propaganda that followed that.

The problem with this explanation is that all over the United States, mobs comprised of a similar racial makeup have spent the last several years rioting and committing acts of mass lawlessness for no discernible reason whatsoever.

There's no recent BLM martyr, no misleading cell phone footage that's gone viral on social media, no fake report from a medical examiner, nothing to justify their conduct in any way.

And yet the rioting has continued.

It's intensified.

Over the past few months, these riots have become so commonplace and so dangerous that the media can't ignore them anymore.

But instead of covering the story honestly and telling the truth about the violent dysfunction in overwhelmingly black areas, the corporate press has decided to brand these riots as teen takeovers.

Yes, teen takeovers.

Now, without any context, it doesn't sound that bad.

Certainly not any kind of event where I'd want to be personally, but Teen Takeover sounds like, you know, it's a bunch of young people getting together to have fun.

And most importantly, whatever it is, it sounds like something that involves teens generally.

Not any specific kind of teen, not any particular race or demographic, just teens.

The point is to be generic and therefore, of course, misleading.

It's like blaming 9-11 on airline passengers.