Originally Posted by
elatedscum
There are a huge number of factual inaccuracies in what you’ve posted:
BlackLivesMatter is a decentralised movement, which started on the back of a hashtag in response to the murder of an unarmed child (Treyvon Martin). The nature of a decentralised movement is there are no leaders (three people are considered founders, none are communists) but it’s all grassroots and local. Can you find local activists who consider themselves communists? Probably. Is it a gross mischaracterisation to say the leaders are communist? Yes. Also, what’s considered communist or socialist in America is vastly different to anywhere in Europe. You want to be treated for cancer without insurance? Socialist. Affordable third level education? Socialist. Etc etc
The vast majority of protests have been peaceful. In america and abroad. Compare that to what happened in Charlottesville.
(Re below and claims of racism) There’s an implicit too in the phrase ie “Black Lives Matter (Too)”, it’s a response to an unarmed child being murdered and his killer not even being arrested till months later. It’s a response country which showed it was ok with black people being murdered by police or to a lesser extend by any white people. Sure all lives matter but the argument isn’t that Black Lives Matter more, just that they are of value - and - all lives matter or blue lives matter has been used to try delegitimise the statement that black lives are undervalued in US society and they do in fact matter.
Socio-economic factors influence crime rates across the world and in the US. There’s barriers to entry regarding education and employment. Every street corner in south-east LA has a gun store and a liquor store. Re your subset of murders or violent crime, there’s not many women who are murders, nor many children, nor many pensioners, so obviously it’s a disproportionate size. There’s also biases within the courts and juries, where a black man is more likely to be convicted of a crime and more likely to receive a longer sentence, which will also skew numbers. Cause really your argument seems to be that a black person is somehow intrinsically more likely to be murder, which is bull****.
Candace Owens? That’s like saying “Lord Carringham said that these unfortunate deaths at the hands of the soldiers during Bloody Sunday would be lucky to make the top 100 problems of catholic Northern Ireland if this was not being used for Political Purposes.
Don’t you see the hypocrisy in those two statements? Compelling people not to something while also saying people shouldn’t be compelled to do something.
Factually inaccurate
Sure but it’s not what you expect to deal with playing football and he’s entitled to react to it.
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Think about how many times you’ve witnessed people saying or doing something racist against black people and think about how many times you’ve seen black people be racist? Honestly telling me it’s not a 10-1 ratio?
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