Mate, I hope this is the last topic here about bitcoin, protests, riots and lootings in America.

I didn't read the whole book but it somehow highlights the alleged "racism" or favoritism by financial institutions (i.e. financial services not equally given to both Blacks and Whites). To be honest, it looks like they're also using their color to push their own agenda. 

It looks like this:

Mr. Floyd (RIP) is a Black man. Blacks don't receive the same financial services like Whites. Therefore buy bitcoin because bitcoin is not controlled by any financial institution.

^ It's probably not an accurate representation but that's how I generally see it.

Maybe this post I made yesterday might clear it up a bit.
They wanted to get an answer from one of the protesters who happened to be black and they didnt like it when he mentioned about bitcoin because they turned the camera away immediately to not let him finish.
You should read the comments from that reddit post where the video first appeared from a spanish news station.
They are quite funny but accurate at the same time.

I don't have a problem with this. I don't know the book or the author, but my heart goes to protesters because the fact that racism is still a thing is disturbing. I've encountered different accounts of why Floyd was stopped by the police in the first place, but both had to do with money: it was either a suspicion about a $20 counterfeit banknote or about a potentially fake check he was writing. In any case, Politics and Economics are not completely separate areas. Plus Bitcoin was created in opposition to centralization and traditional institutions, quite in accordance with Austrian liberalism of say, Hayek. Hayek argues that decentralization offers more space for freedom and less space for despotism. Contemporary liberalism (it hasn't always been like this) in political sense presupposes not only freedom but equal treatment of people regardless of sex, race etc. So it seems natural to me that in such a case as with Floyd protesters would also promote BTC.

The racist issue that was followed by riots was already common in America. But in 2020 the escalation is greater because many parties have made this racial issue a proxy for bringing down Trump, both from the Democrat Party and from abroad to break Trump's concentration in international politics.

Associated with the issue of racism, bitcoin is a form of breaking into the fiat money hegemony issued by the government conducted by Satoshi. Satoshi did the actions normally carried out by a country called printing money even though the currency rules can only be issued by a country as a means of payment and to print money there are mandatory rules that have valuable guarantees such as gold and dollars as the Underlaying. But Satoshi voiced distrust over what the central and state banks were doing.

So bitcoin is a form of a symbol that is considered the same by the people to break down an existing system, other than that maybe demonstrators learn from demonstrations in Hongkong that do the same thing.

I agree. All the adverts I see from companies over the last few months trying to tie in to Coronavirus have been bad enough, but this is a step up again. This is a huge protest against endemic racism. The author shouldn't try to use the publicity it generates to promote their shitty book. FFS.

I hate it when people link Bitcoin to controversial politics to get attention or even free marketing for Bitcoin. There are much better ways to market Bitcoin without all the controversy. 

The negative consequences of these actions and the political back lash is must worse than the little bit of advertising that Bitcoin got from those actions. Bitcoin is a currency.... not a damn tool to cure people from racism or a cure for corruption.   

If you want to link something with Bitcoin, then link it with something good. (like charities)

no they are not. they'd be rekt and without money since the government will only impose more rules on them. its not the best time to be anti government while there is corona yet. doing protest and mass gathering will just wipe them all up in the face of the world. this itself is a revolution in the act since gathering is already prohibited.

This just complicate things for Bitcoin though and how everyone will think that they are supporting the protest or the movement by buying BTC? Doesn't make sense at all. I think its better for Bitcoin to stay away from any political movement across the globe.

It was not designed to be used as a tool, in my opinion. And for those who are going to buy because of this, do they really know what Bitcoin is? It could backfire on cryptocurrency in general, if such event happens whether in US or EU or ME and someone will stood with a placard with "Buy Bitcoin".

As I've been saying in similar threads, this is getting misplaced. The more protesters will call for something else, the more the main issue is getting blurred in the background. Not to mention the looting, the arson, the hurting of other people, and so on.

A protester asked for a message to the family of the very individual victim of racism responding by talking about macroeconomics is blurring the picture.

It is one thing to take inspiration from the death of a black man; it is quite another to drag the entire issue into something else.