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The underlying problem is they don’t want to acknowledge the issue and they want to sidestep any possible culpability of white people, or even any sort of examination of the dynamic. Its basically just a reaction of “whoawhoawhoa…. what are you blaming ME for? I didn’t do anything!”, because they didn’t personally burn a cross on anyone’s lawn or engage in some sort of overt, intentional racism.
The bottom line is I think people are very shallow thinkers, on the whole. We can’t recognize and jump our own psychological hurdles in our own brains. Someone hears “Black Lives Matter”…. their brain starts conjuring all of the ignorant thoughts that live in there, and our egos get in involved. Not like “conceit” ego, like the actual psychological ego. The ego is controlled by the same part of the brain that controls our most basic instinct, the “fight or flight” reaction. To put it quickly, this part of our brain seeks to obtain pleasure, and even more importantly, avoid pain. Pain in this sense refers to any sort of psychological discomfort caused by our most basic negative emotions: fear, frustration, and sadness. You can honestly apply this to people’s involuntary thought processes in all kinds of arenas of life, not just social ills. And what’s really working against us is that the media, and I’d say especially right-wing media, is alllllllll about “OH MY GOD, THE SKY IS FALLING, NOTHING WILL EVER BE OK EVER AGAIN!”, not because that’s accurate, but because they people making money off of all this ain’t slow, they KNOW that’s how you keep viewers tuned in. Tucker Carlson wouldn’t have a quarter of his ratings if the constant theme of his show wasn’t “your way of life is under attack.” If he jumped on TV and just said “Evening, folks! Well…. everything is going just swimmingly, nothing really to report, so….. here’s a video of a squirrel riding on tiny water skis in a bathtub! Look at that little fella go!” Mike Lindell only has to pay $10 a night to run his MyPillow ads instead of $50k, because no one would be watching. People don’t respond to good news, you have to make them angry, frustrated, and most of all, WORRIED. I feel so bad for people living like that, just a dancing puppet to some media company who never had your best interests in mind.
So with all that said, this manifests itself in the “BLM” stuff. First off, right wing media has gone out of its way to mischaracterize the entire movement, highlighting anything violent, and ignoring anything peaceful. If you want to make an argument that CNN, etc have downplayed some violence and looting, I’ll hear that too, but the point should shine through…. ALL of these outlets are biased, not so much because THEY’RE biased, but because they know the viewers are, and the viewers tune into their respective channels to hear what they want to hear. But my dad watches FoxNews every night, and I hear it all, and it…is…NUTS, lmao. Like “tell me you hate non-white people without telling me you hate non-white people…. oh, wait, it’s cool, you just wheeled out Candace Owens, guess you’re not racist, my bad”, lmfao. Anyway…next time I hear “what about Chicago?”, I’m just gonna scream, lmao. These people can’t stay on topic, it’s just deflect, deflect, deflect…”let’s not talk about us, let’s talk about YOU.” The funny part to me is that, envisioning a hypothetical scenario of two black Chicagoans in a shootout, the winner of the shootout is now the automatic demon, the loser is a brief-crocodile-tear “victim” for as long as they’re berating the shooter, and there’s just no context. Who shot first? Doesn’t matter. Why were they shooting? Doesn’t matter. It’s just “don’t blame white people, these people are animals”, because THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT THE ANSWER TO BE. And guess what? If the guy who missed DIDN’T, and it was the opposite guy who was dead, the story would flip on a dime, the previous scenario’s dead guy’s mug shot is all over the news now as the murderer, and they’ll quickly appeal to your emotions with a “the victim, a father of three…”….. it’s all so fucking disingenuous, because if they saw either of those dudes on their own just hanging out, they’d just be a couple of worthless thugs in the eyes of these people. But when it’s convenient to their argument, it’s a tragedy and a social ill…. but really, they’re just scared that it might happen to them on the off chance they found themselves in that neighborhood, or that these folks will come to their neighborhood looking for them, for some illogical reason🙄 But if there was no Black Lives Matter movement, nobody outside of the Chicagoland region would give a squirt of piss about murders in predominantly black neighborhoods in Chicago. The most frustrating thing about the deflection is how painfully obvious it is, like you’re not even trying.
Bill Maher had a quote once that I find pretty true, and I’ll paraphrase a bit to clean it up since it was conversational and not from a monologue….”American conservatives are not libertarians…they like to say they are, since it has the word “liberty” in it, but they aren’t, they’re authoritarians. They’re authoritarians, they don’t want freedom. They want an authoriarian government who agrees with them and punishes people they don’t like.” I gotta give a standing ovation to that, SPOT ON. And guess who these mostly white conservatives don’t like?🤔
I’m running long here, so I’ll wrap it up, but I always think of this Michael Che routine😂
Because Black Lives Matter (can't say about now, I don't follow politics well) was only focused on black lives taken by police officers when statistically, there are 20 times more black deaths that are needlessly taken by other black men. People who disagree with Black Lives Matter tend to believe that if you are going to have a group called Black Lives Matter, then not only do you need to address the issues with the police, but you also need to take a stance against black on black crime.
That may have been changed by now. Like I said, I don't keep up with political issues, so it is very well possible that BLM has expanded their focus by now.
I think the problem is they just can’t see that they’re are actually reasonable people within BLM rather than the idiots who just go and burn shit down. Like maybe if they could talk to these people they could understand that yes blm leaders are corrupt but legit it’s the only powerful institution available to make their voices heard - even if it often uplifts the wrong/crazy ones.
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I don't understand why you take the bait and accuse "White" people.
Racists have used the "Blacks" killing "Blacks" argument to justify all manner of brutality, cruelty and injustice. I don't know many "Whites" in my everyday life who repeat such nonsense.
I wouldn't worry about trying to please a racist freakshow. I mean, there is no way to please racists. They just have you jumping through hoops for your entire life. Maybe just try hanging out with folks who get you.
Oh Jesus- because if black lives REALLY mattered they wouldn’t be killing each other. It’s a moot point anyhow, BLM was a money making scam that fleeced black folks out of donation money so a few other blacks could buy mansions, expensive cars and boats. So, as usual blacks hurting blacks, so, in the end, black lives really do NOT matter to other blacks, why in the hell should white people care, but I digress….
Black lives matter, but not exclusively
You can't say black lives matter and imply that non black lives dont matter
Hispanic lives matter
Gays lifes matter
Asians life matter
Even white peoples life matter
Unborn babys life matter
ALL life matters!
Well BLM voice was taken over by left wing radicals. There a Spot light on white cops killing black people. Those black saying they are harassed by vops. I get pulled over too. We need to get cops off the highway pulling millions in to buy miltary stuff and back to the beat without a gun to build relations with neighbors i hope God bless all people black including
Because white people believe in killing all kinds, including their own.
BLM is just about blaming whitey. 10,000 blacks killed by other blacks.
1 Black killed by a cop.
Who is BLM going to point at?
That is exactly why they have a problem with it. BLM only cares about a black life when it's killed by a white person. Otherwise they could care less.
I don't believe rational white people mind the phrase.
They may or may not believe in the activist organisation though.
Because it's a toxic organization.
And no, I don't think black people are generally taking any of that advice "white people" give them anyway. So what are you even talking about?
I don't know. I say both. Black communities do have high homicide rates of fellow black citizens. And that should change bc BLM.
Because BLM fights for the increasing impunity of those black killers.
And white killers as well.
if you care about black lives then take care of the biggest killer of black lives, ... black males
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