BLM is to Black Americans as is Hamas to the Gazans.
BLM is responsible for riots, burnings, killings and extensive damages to Black communities. I agree with Glenn that their Marxist philosophies are of no benefit to Black communities.
BLM has also twisted the narrative of many of the deaths of Blacks in the hands of police that have little or nothing to do specifically with race, and are oblivious to obvious factors such as drug use, resistance to arrest and the use of weapons by the perpetrators during the arrest attempts.
The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations is absurd. Anyone's unexpected violent death is tragic, but those individuals that put themselves at risk by criminal behavior are different from innocent people that are killed while minding their own business.
The fact that the BLM leadership are supposedly Marxist, yet apparently live like capitalists is total hypocrisy.
And finally, I also agree with Glenn that separating police accountability by race is unnecessary. Police misbehavior affects all races.
"BLM is to Black Americans as is Hamas to the Gazans."
BLM is nothing like Hamas.
Hamas is the actual government of Palestone, BLM governs nothing.
Hamas is a terrorist organization that recently planned and executed attack that led to the murder, rape, and/or kidnapping of thousands of innocent Israelis. BLM has done nothing even remotely close to that. Before that they have regularly fired rockets into Israel.
Hamas is a top down organization that plans and executes its attacks, BLM isn't like that.
I only ask that you edit that comment to say "The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations" to read Progressive organizations instead. Progressivism is illiberal. On my political clock, progressivism is above "the constitutional line" which spans before 3:00 on the right and after 9:00 on the left. Everything above that line is political fundamentalism. Liberals are mostly hybrids of liberal and conservative values. Progressivists are ideologues beholden to theories and solutions that don't work. Liberals on the other hand are often bleeding-heart bean counters, something we need more of.
So, deification is bad -- or just bad for people you don't like?
And how about this one:
"That the reaction is not to think it through, not to question, not to assemble facts, not to make arguments — but instead to wave banners and spout slogans such that you could hardly distinguish what they were doing from a manifesto that would come out of [does it matter?]"
— Glenn Loury, Tucker Carlson Today
When the context suits you, such words are solid gold. What you do when it doesn’t — determines the worth of your word. Loury was rightly talking about the Black Lives Matter manifesto driving the aftermath of George Floyd. But the Left’s ludicrous ways pale in comparison to conservatives going batshit crazy after 9/11. The Right delights in ridiculing the Left for burning buildings to further the cause:
Yet the “party of personal responsibility” set the world ablaze while browbeating anybody out of line in their March of Folly.
McWhorter's right. Anti-Racism has Become Religion -- but fighting that religion has become another religion (and they already belonged to one before that). You think I threw that question in there about deification just for the hell of it?
What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Religion of Ripping on Race & Woke Religions
BLM is to Black Americans as is Hamas to the Gazans.
BLM is responsible for riots, burnings, killings and extensive damages to Black communities. I agree with Glenn that their Marxist philosophies are of no benefit to Black communities.
BLM has also twisted the narrative of many of the deaths of Blacks in the hands of police that have little or nothing to do specifically with race, and are oblivious to obvious factors such as drug use, resistance to arrest and the use of weapons by the perpetrators during the arrest attempts.
The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations is absurd. Anyone's unexpected violent death is tragic, but those individuals that put themselves at risk by criminal behavior are different from innocent people that are killed while minding their own business.
The fact that the BLM leadership are supposedly Marxist, yet apparently live like capitalists is total hypocrisy.
And finally, I also agree with Glenn that separating police accountability by race is unnecessary. Police misbehavior affects all races.
"BLM is to Black Americans as is Hamas to the Gazans."
BLM is nothing like Hamas.
Hamas is the actual government of Palestone, BLM governs nothing.
Hamas is a terrorist organization that recently planned and executed attack that led to the murder, rape, and/or kidnapping of thousands of innocent Israelis. BLM has done nothing even remotely close to that. Before that they have regularly fired rockets into Israel.
Hamas is a top down organization that plans and executes its attacks, BLM isn't like that.
I only ask that you edit that comment to say "The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations" to read Progressive organizations instead. Progressivism is illiberal. On my political clock, progressivism is above "the constitutional line" which spans before 3:00 on the right and after 9:00 on the left. Everything above that line is political fundamentalism. Liberals are mostly hybrids of liberal and conservative values. Progressivists are ideologues beholden to theories and solutions that don't work. Liberals on the other hand are often bleeding-heart bean counters, something we need more of.
Point taken. I prefer the term “Regressives”.
So, deification is bad -- or just bad for people you don't like?
And how about this one:
"That the reaction is not to think it through, not to question, not to assemble facts, not to make arguments — but instead to wave banners and spout slogans such that you could hardly distinguish what they were doing from a manifesto that would come out of [does it matter?]"
— Glenn Loury, Tucker Carlson Today
When the context suits you, such words are solid gold. What you do when it doesn’t — determines the worth of your word. Loury was rightly talking about the Black Lives Matter manifesto driving the aftermath of George Floyd. But the Left’s ludicrous ways pale in comparison to conservatives going batshit crazy after 9/11. The Right delights in ridiculing the Left for burning buildings to further the cause:
Yet the “party of personal responsibility” set the world ablaze while browbeating anybody out of line in their March of Folly.
McWhorter's right. Anti-Racism has Become Religion -- but fighting that religion has become another religion (and they already belonged to one before that). You think I threw that question in there about deification just for the hell of it?
What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Religion of Ripping on Race & Woke Religions
https://onevoicebecametwo.life/2024/03/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-the-religion-of-ripping-on-race-woke-religions-v2/