I agree, I have no expectation that BLM as a whole will come to realize the beauty of this moment at all. I thought it was a good way to demonstrate the point I make at the end. I believe in hearing people and listening to understand, not just to have my next argument back.

BLM has committed atrocities all across the country and radicalized people as well. That is why this spoke to me so much. If just giving people like that the stage at an opposing rally brings them around, even if it is to just save face, that shows the power of listening.

As for the free speech protests, they are very positive, at least at first. They were just people gathering with the hope of being heard. The problem was that Antifa began crashing these protests because they disagreed with most of the protesters and classified their speech as violence. That is when people like Based Stickman began coming out on the free speech side to defend people from the paramilitary Antifa attacks.

The anti-hate and anti-racism are not part of the free speech rallies and are generally far left radicals like Antifa. The goal of these is to paint people who don't agree with radical leftism as racist and bigots in order to justify violence against them to shut them down and impede upon their right to speak.