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Black Lives Matter As Much As White Lives?
The key is making White people feel included.
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New Harvard Poll says 57% of Americans view Black Lives Matter negatively
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BLMAMAWL
Black Lives Matter As Much As White Lives?
The key is making White people feel included.
I think they have been catered to enough.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
My dad calls them terrorists, and I call them heroes.
It doesn't surprise me that most people in America view them negatively, just look at all the neonazies in power.
I think the biggest dichotomy is when I was in school, the Black Panthers were shown as criminals and terrorists. But when I went to actually read on them, they actually sounded like a civil rights group standing up for their community and people.
It doesn't surprise me that most people in America view them negatively, just look at all the neonazies in power.
I think the biggest dichotomy is when I was in school, the Black Panthers were shown as criminals and terrorists. But when I went to actually read on them, they actually sounded like a civil rights group standing up for their community and people.
Well they did attempt to indoctrinate children to hate cops but honestly beyond that...they were black and usin they rights to protect themselves.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
I've hated it almost as much as Allied Mastercomputer hates humanity.
There's nothing wrong with the name of the movement. The name of the movement is such a basic and obvious statement that nobody should be able to deny it in good conscience. The problem is that there are people out there that are actually uncomfortable with the idea.
The radical transformation you're talking about is massive amounts of violence. Few groups ever give up power peacefully and gracefully. Characterizing white people as a hateful horde is racist, inaccurate, and ultimately unproductive. The reality is that there is a very large group of white people that despises minorities (especially black people) and does everything in their power to ruin them, and an even larger group of white people that silently look on while enjoying the numerous benefits of being part of the group in power.
They are preconditioned (both by the media and the hateful core spreading garbage about minorities) to mistrust minorities and anything they do or say. It's no surprise that BLM has been smeared so bad that they see it negatively.
Nothing wrong with pointing out "protect and serve" really means "patrol and control."
All they gotta do is stand shoulder to shoulder with black people and they'll actually be included.
Pupperbabysassy
Member
I truly believe that the fall of this country will be its hatred towards black people and people of color.
The Greek Freak
Member
I'm mixed but all I've seen the local BLM group do is scream at white kids studying a few times on campus.
Hard not to have a negative opinion when they've done jack shit but inconvenience regular people and embarrass themselves during the primaries.
Still better than the police though.
Hard not to have a negative opinion when they've done jack shit but inconvenience regular people and embarrass themselves during the primaries.
Still better than the police though.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
In the future? 🙏🤞
Acerac
Banned
It'd be better if all protests could be ignored. That way they'd not inconvenience anyone or change anything.
That is one of my criticisms of the BLM movement is lack of structure. Not necessarily centralized leadership, but enough people on the ground with training as organizers. Now, there are good reasons for that, a lot of the groups were formed ad hoc, and the group sprang up out of urgency as opposed to a structured organizational founding. I do hope they do establish some structure, which allows individual communities to best address the issues that affect their community/situation, but also to give people the training and strategizing that would make them more successful.
White people in a nutshell. I am not a racist, but its clear to see that on some level, many of them don't "get" us, and won't even try.
This is not about the organization, its about trying to dismiss concerns of systemic injustice out of an irrational fear of "black privilege", when in reality, its all about that (to be fair, many times unconscious) white privilege.
Who was "inconveniencing regular people and embarrassing themselves"? Let me know
Cause all i saw was a bunch of white folk trying to practice whataboutism just to deflect.
This is not about the organization, its about trying to dismiss concerns of systemic injustice out of an irrational fear of "black privilege", when in reality, its all about that (to be fair, many times unconscious) white privilege.
Who was "inconveniencing regular people and embarrassing themselves"? Let me know
Cause all i saw was a bunch of white folk trying to practice whataboutism just to deflect.
Wow, I can't believe a group fighting for change is protesting. What a bunch of assholes.
Why can't they be more like MLK?
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
Not surprising to be honest. Black people are essentially not allowed to be human in this country.
The Greek Freak
Member
Harassing college aged white kids (aka the most likely whites to be on our side) instead of disrupting police orgs or politicians against police reform is pointless and cowardly at best.
QUOTE=silvon;245340880]My exposure to BLM here in Canada is when they threatened to boycott the gay pride parade unless the police are banned from marching. That left a negative impression on me. I don't think fighting suppression with suppression is cool, and I'm not sure why they chose the pride parade to voice their platform.[/QUOTE]
See now THIS I can get behind. Fuck them in every way possible until they change, not the stressed out freshmen who has no idea why people are screaming at him.
excelsiorlef
Member
Is this a serious suggestion?
LinkAndEpona
Banned
The media needs to do a much more thorough job report on all the positives things they do besides the rare instances of violent rioting and looting and threats against police and white people.
My exposure to BLM here in Canada is when they threatened to boycott the gay pride parade unless the police are banned from marching. That left a negative impression on me. I don't think fighting suppression with suppression is cool, and I'm not sure why they chose the pride parade to voice their platform.
Vincent Alexander
Member
This was my first thought too. Good job, media. You suck again.
HisImperialMajesty
Member
58% of white Americans voted Trump. There you go.
excelsiorlef
Member
You should pay attention more.
And who are umm regular people and how are BLM activists not regular people?
On a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you love Sam Harris?
Oh yes, because BLM didn't do any of what you suggested at all, and the white kids need their safe spaces from protests rights?
Next your gonna tell me they were being a nuisance by blocking traffic and inconveniencing people trying to get to work
excelsiorlef
Member
Because they were black members of the LGBT community and they don't want to march with their uniformed oppressors
And police is a job not an identity.
And Pride used to mean something before it became tamed and "unpolitical" once certain members of the community umm got theirs.
Acerac
Banned
You suggest they disrupt police organizations? I suppose that would be far more brave, but I question how effective their protests would be from inside jail cells.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
"But they already matter? I just don't think you should make this a race thing."
burn this down
Banned
Absolutely. And it's same Malcolm X. The narative has been the same for years. The 'correct way' for black people to protest is the way which requires you to put yourself down and try to adopt the a very 'white', for the convenience of white racists. A way that requires you to abandon your own culture. There's a reason Martin Luther King is regarded as the defacto leader of the Civil Rights movement. He's safer than figures like Malcolm X. His means of addressing oppression works to the favor of white racists. It easy for them to use it to prolong opression while convincingly spinning it as being progress. And it continues today, manifesting here with Black Lives Matter. The status quo prevents them from acting in way that would actively change that status quo.
It's insane.
Happened last november
Again to be fair, 58% of those who voted. There were a significant amount of eligible voters who didn't vote, including whites.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
RIP Nana Ruth, may a choir of angels sing thee to thy rest.
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
Are you sure about that? Folks showed their asses when the Mizzou situation happened.
The Greek Freak
Member
If a protest doesn't come with a major risk of being arrested odds are it's a waste of time.
.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said:
excelsiorlef
Member
Nana Ruth is just trying to get her college degree finally and BLM is ruining her success story.
Gentleman Jack
Member
And, as earlier pointed out, they're in love with a fuzzy, misremembered caricature of the man, which is why you'll often see him quoted to browbeat protesters with bullshit like 'MLK would not have protested like that' or 'MLK didn't fight and die so y'all could act like [insert any modern social movement] does!'
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
Keebler Elf Jefferson Beauregard Sessions just wants to help Nana get her Master's.
Also how Malcolm X is villified when history has pretty much proven him right.
The Greek Freak
Member
Most of the "left" ignores everything he had to say about economic justice since that's inconvenient for them.
bemusedchunk
Banned
Hockeymac18
Member
Depressing. But not surprising considering the slant their coverage gets. Also shithead anarchists ruining shit for everyone else.
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