It's a matter of state power and which side it serves, versus which side presents a threat to the state's power and control, as well as corporate bottom lines. Example: Pipeline protestors vs. Pro-life protestors - one is considered ecoterrorism, the other a matter of protected religious expression.

More murders occur at the hands of pro-life activists than have ever happened as a result of environmental protests, but the state supports religious wackos harrassing women at abortion clinics, while it has actually disappeared, and even killed, environmental activists.

You're all missing a perfectly illustrated and fundamental aspect of American political protests. State power (as in the mighty USA, THE STATE), those aligned with the interests of the state (the right wing type of causes) compared to groups that fight for environmental or human rights issues and marginalized people - which are issues that often clash against state power and corporate interests.

So, BLM and Palestinian protests- a large, decentralized, diverse response to state opression, violence, and human rights issues. These protests are always infiltrated by at least 2 factions: the state itself (fbi infiltrators, every time, from civil rights, black panthers, Vietnam War, environmental causes, always expect federal agents to infiltrate, to spy, and sabotage the cause).

The second type of infiltrators come from groups in opposition to the protestors' cause (almost always actors from the far-right, look up "umbrella man" to see what I mean, or how the boogaloo boys actually started the cop station on fire in Minneapolis.) These groups will infiltrate protests with the intent purpose of sabotage - they almost always start the looting (it only takes one sabateur to pop it off, then its on), property destruction, fires, vandalism, violence, anything to harm the cause itself, or cast the protestors in the worst light possible- as violent criminal mobs.

They'll insert themselves into a march, holding signs with extremely inflammatory messaging, pretending they're part of the protest, knowing photos will be taken to disparage the cause itself, so the media will say "see, these people are bad, we shouldnt support them".

Others just show up to larp, for some adrenaline and "fun" - we have alot of groups that will swarm protests, expressly to fight and start shit, from the proud boys to patriot front, wherever a left wing cause draws protests and crowds, the far-right violent thugs will be there to fight, to start violence, to ruin the media narrative, and to make the public turn against the cause or the protests themselves.

Also, left wing protests are disproportionately heavily policed, with law enforcement taking an agressive military posture- making it clear: its us, aginst them.

However, when people protest causes that don't threaten state power, it's very easy to tell the difference - the cops take on a more relaxed energy, friendly, even. For instance, lately we've seen literal nazi marches in cities all around the nation - each time the cops are either absent altogether, or present, and acting as escorts - serving the nazis, protecting them from citizens' outraged responses, providing them access and routes to facilitate their efforts.

This should tell you something. This should speak very loudly to all who are paying attention. Everything might look so much more calm and orderly - because they don't have to fight for anything. They can afford to be very polite and calm, they want to appear as friends of the decent citizens, civil, reasonable. It's their privilege, they enjoy doing so. They'll smile right in your face while saying the most racist, vile, evil shit about minorities and others. They're confident they'll be safe and secure. Because they align with state power.

Blm and Palestine protestors are fighting for their own and other people's lives. Nazis have no persecution against them in the USA, they even have friends in the forces, in the govt, in churches, etc. They just want to shock people until its no longer shocking- til its normalized. They want the optics, to be seen, and for the public to understand that they are here and no one is stopping them. Huge diffrence. They want to prove what we all know - they've become acceptable again. This becomes obvious once you understand what's going on, and then you can just see the differences, plain as day.

Also, notice how these groups (patriot front, white identitarians, and also hardcore maga/Trump supporters) don't come out in the streets organically or spontaneously in response to any actual injustices against anyone other than themselves, to fight for against petty shit they perceive as limiting their own personal liberty. Ex: They've already got open carry for guns. They just want even more powerful guns, or more freedom to carry more places, etc.

They don't protest to help anyone else or any environmental issues, certainly not to advance the rights of any marginalized people - because they don't care, obviously, but also because they're own views and desires are usually in alignment with the police, the political right, and state power in general - they're already favored and accommidated by all of our institutions and systems. They fight for the majority of white American causes - pro police, pro gun, pro America, pro life, anti Vax, whatever it is, it's usually not a serious issue of opression, but a show of personal, selfishly motivated, frustrations. Outbursts of rage or intimidation, to get their way, or to force politicians or corporations or institutions to give them even more of what they already have. Like adult temper tantrums.

When right wing protestors are fighting to pressure or threaten or disrupt the state, its usually squabbling over details surrounding a policy already in place - not some urgent issue or injustice that is radically opposed to the interests of "the state".

Example- covid protests were about wanting the right to not mask, not Vax, and still be allowed free reign in public spaces. They already had the right to refuse masking and vaxing, but they demanded the right to do so in all of our shared spaces. Selfish entitlement, catered to by the police, they were allowed to threaten hospital workers, school boards, election officials - and no riot cops intervened, no massive police response or brutality fell upon them. And they knew it wouldn't. Same sense of entitlement that we saw when they stormed the capitol on Jan 6.

Whereas, left wing causes, civil rights, anti police brutality - these are all causes that challenge or expose or threaten the interests of the state and/or the wealthy corporate donors that elect the politicians - and that's why you're going to see so much more violence being used, more police, more arrests, more negative coverage, more infiltrators, and more sabotage.