You always need a poster child for a movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White
Of course it was a bunch of homo’s that caused this hemophiliac to contract AIDS and die because they polluted the nations blood supply. But do you really want a bear (a fat male in leather) as the poster child for the gay rights movement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd
At times it gets almost comical. I suppose timing is more important than reality, and so a thug with an extensive violent criminal record, on drugs, resisting arrest, who was actually committing a crime (using counterfeit currency), becomes the poster child for a civil rights movement.
Brix: “Confirmation bias will always lead zealots to believe the narrative that favors their cause even in the preponderance of contrary evidence.”