It's "not fine" with you. But it is, in fact, my intention to respond to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter." I have every intention of crossing out a radical message with a more humanistic one.
Which is the issue here. The "humanistic one" is fine, in isolation.
But, when a section of the community has issues specific to them, broadening it out to everyone serves just to minimise (if not erase) their specific complaint.
Particularly when you start to ascribe all sorts of characteristics to the first group. According to your own posts in this thread, BLM want to:
Take away your rights
Commit violence to correct injustice
Think other people's needs should take a back seat to their own
Promote racial division
Are in favor of those who've been violent
Want to take vengeance on a society because of past injustice
Create a divide between all Blacks and all Whites
You also think they are filled with hatred and hate you country.
This is just culture-war grievance mongering.
As I've said repeatedly in this discussion, the issue I have with Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with having no concern for Blacks in their bad American experience. Rather, it has to do with the methodology of this movement, which is to use anarchy, rioting, burning and pillaging, along with violence done to human beings completely innocent of prejudice or racism, including White People and other races who had nothing to do with the American period in which Blacks were persecutted.
Interesting that use of the past tense there: "persecutted".
The 2023 FBI hate crime data shows that African-Americans suffered ~51% of hate crimes driven by race/ethnicity/ancestry. This is despite them only making up 14% of the population.
The problem is likely vastly worse than that, as hate crime under-reporting is highest in communities where there is a mistrust of the police and access to legal services. And, guess which community has some of the lowest rates of trust in the police and worst legal access?
I have shown every concern for what Black Americans have gone through. I have relatives and friends who are Black, and have no interest in doing further harm to them. I realize that memories of abuse last a long time, even across generations, and have after-effects, as well.
You don't appear to have exhibited any concerns here. And, the 'I have a black friend' card really isn't necessary here (it's sort of telling on yourself).
"Black Lives Matter" is a euphemism for a kind of war against the system, which is being incited and used by anarchists and socialists who need to break down the system in order to replace it with something that they want to install. That is what I oppose--a revolution inspired by radicals such as the Bolsheviks did early in the 20th century.
Ah, it's just wild conspiracy nonsense then. I just need 'Cultural Maxism', 'Antifa' and 'Woke' in the somewhere.
Anarchists and socialists pose about 0% of a threat to the current US social order. They're lest impactful combined than the NRA, the Heritage Foundation or a couple of random billionaires.
Blacks are disproportionately in prison, which is something that certainly needs addressing, though not by rioting. They are in prison not out of persecution, but due to the fact Blacks were abused in the past, have had their family structure destroyed, and have had their education and better paying jobs taken away from them. So is it surprising the broken social conditions lead to more crime, resulting in a higher percentage of imprisonment?
But yes, it needs to be addressed, and I think on the Democrat side, and even some on the Republican side, this has been in process of being done. Rioting isn't going to speed it up, in my view.
Rioting occurred in a small proportion of BLM protests.
Data published by the Crowd Counting Collective on protests from May 2020 to June 2021, found "94% of protests involved no participant arrests, 97.9% involved no participant injuries, 98.6% involved no injuries to police, and 96.7% involved no property damage".
Data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data is very similar. They found that from May 2020 to September 2021 "94% of all pro-BLM demonstrations have been peaceful, with 6% involving reports of violence, clashes with police, vandalism, looting, or other destructive activity".
Further to this, the main indicator of whether violence/destructive activity was going to occur during a BLM protest was the presence of counter-protestors and various accelerationist/anti-government groups. When these agitators showed up or infiltrated BLM protests, 26% of protests saw violence or destruction.
For instance various Boogaloo Boi groups were found to have attended about 760 BM rallies. 10% of those ended up with a group member being arrested for violence.
And so, "All Lives Matter." Blacks have zero right to abuse White People or Business People or just anybody they want to randomly inflict their rage on. I highly respect Black Americans who work within the system to make changes--even those who have made tremendous sacrifices of patience and health, along with suffering misunderstanding.
Would anti-racism advertisements during prime time football be 'within the system'? What about quite anti-racism displays by football players? What about a sign in the end zone? Or are those "try[ing] to control my speech" or "trying to impose their own narrative"?
