Do you support the BLM (Black Lives Matter) political movement?

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nightdrot · Accepted Answer

At length, the answer is 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.

JesseJayNeak · Accepted Answer

No. Not now, not ever

kyleelyn199723 · Accepted Answer

No I do not. Too many negatives that came out of that movement

goaded · Answer

Yes, because everyone should have the same, mutually respectful interactions with the police. That does not seem to be the case in the US.

The Republicans intentionally misrepresent the calls to "defund the police", which is a call to use available funds to reduce criminality by better funding social services. The Metropolitan Police in London have been told since 1829 that "the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them."

Crime, particularly violent crime, has been falling since the early 1990s, when the effects of lead poisoning that almost certainly led to the terrifying tripling of crime rates over the preceding three decades. Is the same true of police funding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_rates_in_the_United_States

Of the roughly 1,000 Americans shot and killed by police every year, over a third are Black, although they're just 13% of the population (although 33% of the people living in poverty).

Of course, some people might pretend that racism is over because you elected a black president, while ignoring the third of the country that voted against him, and the resurgence of racism and white supremacy under Trump.

The estimated 20 million people who participated in BLM protests were obviously not all black, but they certainly included very few Republicans, some of whom seem to think that there's no point in trying to improve matters, because people aren't perfect.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Why the fuck should I support them when they don't even abide by their own mantra? How many blacks have they killed in just over a year? How many black-owned businesses have they severely fucked over in the past 18 months?
FUCK THEM!!! Put a bullet into each of their worthless heads!!!

BeMuse · Answer

It's a violent communist separatist hate group that has racked up an endless list of crimes in a color revolution in collaboration with foreign enemies. They should all hang for being traitors to their nation.

Avicenna · Answer

No, BLM is a hate group and a bunch of grifters that propagates propaganda which incites racial hatred toward whites as well as false claims regarding race. It is also an anti-Jewish hate group. It cynically pushes propaganda to extract money.

Jet-Blaque · Answer

no its created by white surpamcist AND THE LGBT. to push their socialism goals and help china and kill off a certain population

Canceled · Answer

According to the current global slavery index, every race has more slaves today than white people ever did.  People of color: whites are racist!

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

Wonder why you put up a picture of black men with guns on the yes poll and a nice black family on the no poll 🤔

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

"No, I do not. It's a racially motivated Marxist movement." Oh boy never heard that before -_-

DanishSaint · Answer

I did at first, now it´s getting too much, too many places. Enough

rcljr · Answer

Fuck blm, I quit giving a shit about blacks in 2020, to Hell with ALL of them.

OddBeMe · Answer

I support the phrase that’s used by local activists to rally behind. Sometimes local activists are idiots. But hey, that’s America.

ManHater · Answer

blm is a terrorist movement in sheep skin playing on black peoples suffering.

888theGreat · Answer

No, I don't support terrorists

Sweetener_ · Answer

Absolutely not.

Andres77 · Answer

Black Olives Matter!!!

TadCurious · Answer

Absolutely not.

EmmaMary · Answer

No, absolutely not.

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