I saw an article that was talking about removing some of the protections from Twitter, Facebook, etc. that said that decreasing their prevalence in society would actually be good for the public discourse. I actually view some of the protesting now as the "Social Media" protests. People get behind things and say, "Yeah, that is wrong...I support you. Let's march...let's black out our social media profile..." but at the end of the day, that does nothing. I do not see demands or plans of action. Like, if you are protesting, their used to be some set of goals you had for the protest and steps you want to see taken. "Stop systemic racism" is a goal. It does not seem like anyone who is "leading" (I use that term loosely) this has thought too far further than that.
I would have expected BLM to be demanding more citizen input in these large cities. Demanding to meet with the mayor or city council. Demanding something along those lines. Right now it is just people marching around aimlessly yelling that they are pissed. You need someone to direct that anger to solutions. That is hard work though. That video up above, "bro...we're on your side" as you are playing beer pong and taping yourself giving them the thumbs up...lol. No you are not. You are a neutral bystander who wants to show that you are not a "bad guy", but you are not on anyone's team. My social media blew up this week with posts about teaching white privelege and all that...the people that posted them then went back about their summer business. What was going on downtown does not impact them (me) all that much, so whatever...shade a meme and you are "on the team". And you immediately become able to scold anyone who is also not sufficiently on board with posting meaningless platitudes. It is the laziest activism I have ever seen.