Do you support BLM?

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nightdrot · Accepted Answer

Voted No, but mostly because "Black Lives Matter" is really little more than a group of people following a trendy slogan masquerading as serious thought. Where it is more substantive it tends to the extreme and is not so much the pursuit of justice as the catharsis that comes with seeking vengeance.

Thus for example, Black Lives Matter's recent craze to "defund the police." This is patently self-destructive where it is not simply absurd. Indeed, it was not 30 years ago that African-American community leaders were demanding a stronger police presence in minority communities as crime rates - as a result of the 1960s/70s passion for treating the criminal as a victim rather than a perpetrator - soared.

Indeed, thus how the nation got to its' current fits of moral exhibitionism and self-pity. The increased police presence of the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s brought crime rates down to levels that had not been seen since the peaceful placid 1950s. Now relatively secure and safe, many in those communities began to take their safety for granted and found the means to such safety as intolerably oppressive and racist.

Thus the cries of institutional racism and the theatrical protests in the streets that have now conduced to violence. It is feeling substituting for facts as the data show that, by far, most crime in the African-American community is black on black, that whites are far more likely to suffer police brutality than are black and indeed that in 2019, the last year that full statistics are available, that a grand total of 10 African-Americans were shot by white police officers.

All this against a background where, until the recent pandemic, the unemployment rate among African-Americans had fallen to its' lowest level since statistics for that demographic began to be kept in 1947. This also in a country that had not so long ago elected and re-elected its' first African-American President. A thing that would have been impossible had it depended upon African-American votes alone.

No matter, particularly in a populist age where the common man is fancied the pinnacle of all virtue and where self-pity is at a premium, the conclusion has been drawn that America is irreducibly racist and African-Americans are oppressed - the latter also playing off the virtue and cachet that comes with being classified a victim. This then leading to an extremism that is profoundly silly where it is not profoundly self-destructive.

Thus Black Lives Matter recently called for the abolition of the traditional family. This ignoring the fact that African-American children are, by far, the most likely to be born out of wedlock and raised by single mothers. The social pathologies that flow from that to follow - including higher illiteracy, a greater chance of criminal activity, drug addiction and so on.

Of course, instantly it will be argued that there is racism in America, as the recent Minneapolis episode illustrates. Actually, that is slipshod language. Bigotry there is. Racism, on the other hand, is a schematic ideology and is comparatively rare.

No matter, human beings are imperfect and imperfectible and if the expectation is that there will be no justice or peace until perfect racial harmony is achieved, the wait is apt to be a very long one. Indeed, it will come at the cost of the very social stability that the African-American community needs if it is to overcome the maladies that afflict it and are, by far, the primary source of its' grievances.

So Black Lives Matter is the drivel that is left behind when slogans substitute for thought and emotion replaces analysis. It being further aggravated by a supine culture that prizes moral exhibitionism and "virtue signalling" over the hard work and inevitably imperfect outcomes that will facilitate real social improvement.

ShortCircuit · Accepted Answer

I want *significant* police reform and criminal justice reform. I'm talking about ending qualified immunity, replacing internal investigations with civilian oversight committees, ending police unions (and all other public sector unions while we're at it), eliminating mandatory minimums (and maybe even replacing them with mandatory maximums), legalizing all drugs and releasing every single prisoner who was arrested on drug charges, etc.

However, I don't subscribe to this ideological belief that black people are systemically oppressed in any meaningful way in the U. S. in 2020, and I refuse to align myself with unabashed Marxists and petty criminals of opportunity.

Marilynjuana · Accepted Answer

Nope. The DiCaprio meme is on point, though. In my country racism has always been an issue. It totally blew up after these idiotic riots. Well done.

Lliam · Answer

Not any more.
The term was originally coined by some black mothers whose children had been unjustifiably killed by cops. I supported their message.
I acknowledge that there is racial profiling and that some cops are racist. Some cops are just brutal ass holes in general. I've seen it myself.
I was for calling attention to bad police behavior and weeding out bad cops. I still am.

But BLM has been hijacked by bad actors. It is being supported by Democrats for cynical political purposes. It is being funded by globalists like George Soros and powerful mega-corporations for reasons that have nothing to do with peace and justice.

It is racist and violent. I now consider it to be a terrorist organization.

JaneDoe377 · Answer

Not even a little

wankiam · Answer

the movement? yes very much so
the extremeist criminal element? no not at all but when america made antifa a terror organisation where did they expect the activists to go?
incidentally you do know that its only in america that blm act like that dont you? the rest of the worlds blm movement seems very peaceful barring the odd bit of grafitti or breaching of social distancing rules

sensible27 · Answer

I don't know what it stands for, different people seem to have different views on what the movement is I guess.

Agape93 · Answer

Yeap

Dargil · Answer

A is so true, it is depressing. Starting with Obama, the left has  intentionally  set race relations back 50+ years. Employers will take an extra look at the academic and social history of Black applicants to avoid hiring time bombs. It may not be  fair  and it is surely  discrimination , but it a matter of the survival of businesses. But don't feel too put upon it will be done for White Genexers and Millennials as well.  Baden  is just as dangerous as  Antwon.

Bananaman177 · Answer

It's about time White americans wake up and realize that they can't appease or placate these people by kissing their black ass or by denigrating the white race. They don't CARE whether you're racist or not, THEY are racist AGAINST YOU. They want you dead and your children raped, and they think it's funny.

genericname85 · Answer

hell no. they are litterally nazis.

Rangers · Answer

No, I strongly oppose terrorist organizations, especially BLM which is the largest and most violent terrorist organization on the globe

clampfan101 · Answer

I believe all lives matter.

joeldalton · Answer

Not at all. It's a horrible organization.

Dazzler1983 · Answer

Yes its a good charity. Some people I know don't. When I question them they say it's over the top. They have never been subject to racist abuse. I have and I'm not black.

In_Trance · Answer

A pathetic movement for a worthless cause

grega239 · Answer

Obviously not

Nachowedgie · Answer

Nope

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