The Washington Post’s “Outlook” section had a long op-ed yesterday by one of its editors, Simone Sebastian, the thesis of which is that the violence resulting from Black Lives Matter is unobjectionable, because Martin Luther King Jr.’s protests also resulted in predictable violence. The comment I immediately posted on the article was: “Two points: (1) There’s a difference between creating a situation where it’s foreseeable that racists will use violence (then) and creating a situation where it’s foreseeable that the protestors will use violence (now); and (2) there’s a world of difference, too, between the degree of racism that was being protested then and the degree of racism that is being protested now.” Thus, it is risible when Ms. Sebastian writes that Black Lives Matter “fights the same injustices [as the civil-rights movement] and encounters the same resistance.” Finally, I would add that the ’60s non-King riots — which the BLM-inspired riots more closely resemble — were not justified either, and many could not be said to have accomplished anything anyhow, coming after the major civil-rights advances.