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Is America suffering protest fatigue? Support for BLM demonstrations falls to 39% from 54% in three months amid fresh unrest over Breonna Taylor ruling
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 25, 2020 | Chris Pleansace

Posted on 09/25/2020 8:54:33 AM PDT by C19fan

Support for Black Lives Matter protests is falling across the country after months of unrest that has seen people killed, shops burned, and frequent clashes between activists and police.

A new poll shows that just 39 per cent of Americans now approve of the protests, down from 54 per cent in June, while 44 per cent of now disapprove of them.

University of Michigan political scientist Christian Davenport put the change down to 'compassion fatigue', as outrage over videos such as the one of George Floyd has faded, with people now wanting a return to their everyday lives.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 2020election; blm; christiandavenport; election2020; landslide; michigan; trumplandslide; uofmichigan
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University of Michigan political scientist Christian Davenport put the change down to 'compassion fatigue'

Really professor??? It is not BLM and their Antifa allies running riot all over the country.

1 posted on 09/25/2020 8:54:33 AM PDT by C19fan
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39%? Among rioters?


2 posted on 09/25/2020 8:55:09 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I was sick of it after the first statue toppled.

Thanks, Nikki Haley.


3 posted on 09/25/2020 8:55:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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And, he runs off to his leftist PoliSci peers and says, “Look at me! I invented a thing, gave it a name and the media repeated it! It has been legitimated!”
“Oh, look...I did it again! I’m relevant.”


4 posted on 09/25/2020 8:57:14 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous.)
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LOL!!


5 posted on 09/25/2020 8:58:13 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Where will the support be in 39 days?


6 posted on 09/25/2020 9:00:59 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats donate to bail money. Republicans donate to scholarships. ~ throwthebumsout)
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54% of the country initially approved of the riots? What utter BS.

I wonder what the real percentage of people who want the rioters shot is?

7 posted on 09/25/2020 9:01:29 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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Sorry...no compassion for thugs, druggies, and those who associate with them...NONE. Compassion I have is for cops who have to deal with them daily.


8 posted on 09/25/2020 9:02:26 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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Not ‘fatigue’. Try ‘pissed off’.


9 posted on 09/25/2020 9:04:15 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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BLM and Antifa slackers get out of basement take up looting because mom and pop won’t buy them things.


10 posted on 09/25/2020 9:04:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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BLM and Antifa slackers

Rioters paid by the democrats and should be labeled as such.


11 posted on 09/25/2020 9:08:01 AM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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No not YOUR “compassion fatigue” but rather than a very evident nation-wide ORGANIZED threat movement with included riot, looting and arson activities causes a turn-away from sympathy!


12 posted on 09/25/2020 9:08:43 AM PDT by SES1066 (2020, VOTE your principles, VOTE your history, VOTE FOR ALL AMERICANS, VOTE colorblind!)
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I doubt it was all that high to begin with but no one wanted to say anything


13 posted on 09/25/2020 9:23:27 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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i’ve never cared that liberals are burning down their own neighborhoods personally.

I am just over here laughing and shaking my head at their stupidity.


14 posted on 09/25/2020 9:32:06 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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no one wanted to say anything

So if a particular race is burning, looting and killing is it racist to call them out for it? The reason I am asking is that most of them seem to be white ANTIFA types and I don't want to sound racist by hating on white ANTIFA Marxist anarchists.

15 posted on 09/25/2020 9:33:48 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: JayAr36

Indeed always follow the money trail.


16 posted on 09/25/2020 9:36:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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there was 54% support for domestic terrorists who were burning down our cities and destroying people’s livelihoods permanently in many cases, and for shooting and assaulting anyone that supports the president?


17 posted on 09/25/2020 9:56:31 AM PDT by Bob434
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No. They’re finally catching on.
The riots are about revolution, not ‘justice.’


18 posted on 09/25/2020 10:37:49 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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Then maybe people are starting to LEARN what BLM’s really stands for, Marxism, the destruction of the American Republic, destruction of the Police and Sheriff’s Departments who protect us, the destruction of the Military, the TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and to the REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS!!! Yeah, maybe folks are finally getting the TRUTH through all of the Marxist MSM’s propaganda apparatus that plagues the nation. The Marxist MSM are as responsible for the burning, damages, rape, murder, police shootings, etc., that the Ants and BLM are responsible for.


19 posted on 09/25/2020 1:09:53 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends, are you prepared to meet the LORD? Do you KNOW Him? Time is running out.)
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not protest fatigue, not compassion fatigue, riot fatigue.

Fake outrage fatigue. Fake virtue-signaler/white savior fatigue. Racist violence towards innocent bystanders fatigue. Everybody’s a fascist/racist fatigue. Violence towards Leo’s fatigue. Destruction of businesses and property fatigue. Destroying landmarks fatigue. GimmeGimme fatigue. That’s the fatigue normal people are suffering from.


20 posted on 09/25/2020 3:32:26 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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