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Comment by jmye

1 day ago

> BLM on their open hatred of white people.

I think my eyes just rolled out of my head. Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to, and secondly, the mind-numbingly idiotic view you did ascribe to “them”.

Turn off cable news and Twitter; it may help.

>Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to

three people coined the phrase and made a lot of money on it through donations, interviews, grants, books, media, etc.

Yes, BLM the movement and actions may be decentralized -- let's not pretend there weren't profiteering ringleaders at any given point[0], and they most definitely had vocal opinions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrisse_Cullors , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay%E1%BB%8D_Tometi

  • None of those articles mentions any of them saying they hate white people and they all link to a BLM wiki article that contradicts your claim that they were ringleaders if the movement.

  • > three people coined the phrase and made a lot of money on it through donations, interviews, grants, books, media, etc.

    And tons of people said it with no affiliation to those three people. What a ridiculous load of nonsense. Also, given the links you provided, I'm curious what, specifically, you think:

    "Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement"

    means? Would you like for me to define "decentralized" to you? Is there some other part of that completely unambiguous sentence that I can help with?

    > let's not pretend there weren't profiteering ringleaders at any given point[0], and they most definitely had vocal opinions.

    Great, what does that have to do with anything I said?

    Y'all are so utterly boring and predictable.

    'Someone, somewhere said something mean about white people, and I'm going to brainlessly attribute that to everyone I hate for not advocating for me, personally, enough!' is, paraphrasing your take, the lamest, most childish shit imaginable. Grow up.