Comment by malcolmgreaves
5 years ago
> The entire point of the political movement is to recognize that black people are people too and that western institutions of power * do not * recognize this truth.
5 years ago
> The entire point of the political movement is to recognize that black people are people too and that western institutions of power * do not * recognize this truth.
That's your interpretation of a hashtag. And with that you go around beating people over the head with it, demanding they add all the right emojis to their Twitter bio or be called a racist. Ie. exactly the destructive behavior TFA is about.
The idea that BLM stands for just a single thing ("black people are people too") is absurd. It's very open to interpretation and people want a wide variety of things in supporting it.
You aren't helping any person by arguing in bad faith (ex. your other comment in this tree: "Do you think that black people's lives don't matter?"). In fact, you're turning away people who would otherwise be allies, and believe in the common cause of humanity, but will never go along with all the woke song and dance bullshit.
This is one of the big things that I think causes people to be really resistive to BLM: They've actually exposed a problem that impacts ALL PEOPLE. Whites, asians, mexicans, and blacks are all impacted by police violence.
IMO, They could get a lot more people looking at the issue if they talked about this more.