Media castigated BLM protesters as looters to delegitimize grievances

Evidence

The BLM protests, for whites observing from afar with fear, embodied that very sword. This is why they, and their mouthpieces in mainstream media, castigated the protesters as “looters” and “thugs” and “terrorists,” seeking to strip the legitimacy of their grievances with the dulling edge of the sword they had swung for so long. But what unfolded in Minneapolis and other cities across the world was no sword seeking retribution or vengeance. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1142

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the media-derived Islamophobic frames Beydoun documents elsewhere; ‘thug’/‘terrorist’ labeling parallels anti-Muslim and anti-Black racialized framing. — connects to: Well-planned protest spectacles can dictate front-page coverage — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 369; Media could not comprehend altruistic motivations among student protesters — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1516; Media coverage persistently equated protest property damage with police violence — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1548 (+2 more)