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What's super-duper convincing about this random opinion is that there's literally no way it is hyperbole.
You should probably read this report instead...
Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
The report added that evidence had found that factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion had "more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism".
"That said, we take the reality of racism seriously and we do not deny that it is a real force in the UK."
The report also said there is an "increasingly strident form of anti-racism thinking that seeks to explain all minority disadvantage through the prism of white discrimination" which it said diverted attention from "the other reasons for minority success and failure.
Hmmm...sounds familiar.
Quite remarkable how you actually started a thread claiming to be wildly misunderstood and fiercely anti-racist, and yet when I ask if you've read an intensive independent report into systematic racism (something you claim doesn't exist)
Yes, although the actual report not just a newspaper's short summary of it.
You can add "racist" to the list of worthless words.Words like 'Marxism' and 'Communism' are thrown around so often these days that they've become worthless. 90% of the time they're nothing but empty accusations standing in for 'policies that I don't like'.
Quite remarkable how you actually started a thread claiming to be wildly misunderstood and fiercely anti-racist,
Can you provide any proof that the money went specifically to performing abortions?Hammster, if you support Trump you also support abortion. Under Trump, we paid Israel over $10M per day. Israel has very liberal abortion laws, funded by your tax dollars. You were personally funding abortion under Trump, and had no objection whatsoever.
Yay - let's play "Gish Gallop all over the group I find scary."
BLM Chapter Founder on why he quit BLM
Blacks speaking out against BLM
I'm curious - where did you source that BLM banner - and is it still there?Honestly, I hope that someone else can sort of take the reigns and make it a more productive organization.
Some of the issues the say they want to address are valid issues, and ones for which there is substantial public support.
However, early on, they allowed unrelated ideologies to bleed into their message, and draw division.
When their chapters are putting up mission statements like these, it's not surprising that they're a divisive group...
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You can't put "abolition of capitalism" down as one of your mission statements, and then act as if everyone who opposes your group is doing so simply because they are bigots that don't think that "Black lives matter". You can name your group "stop punching sweet little old ladies", if one of your mission statements is "abolition of capitalism", you won't get my support.
BLM has needed a PR overhaul for a while.
It'd be sort of like if there was a situation like this...
Activist: "Hey, I just started a group called Clean Rivers Now (#CRN), you interested in supporting us?"
Reasonable person: "I'd be willing to consider it, what's your mission?"
Activist: "We want to stop all companies from dumping waste in the rivers, impose heavy fines on polluters, sponsor politicians who will fight for strong ecological policies, and we also want to lower the age of sexual consent to 11 years old, are you with us?"
Reasonable person: "absolutely not, I don't want anything to do with your group"
Activist: "oh, hey, come look everyone! come look at this bigoted climate change denier who doesn't care about clean water!!!!"
I've used this example before, but most people agree on preventing animal abuse, but there's a good reason why most people have a positive perception of the ASPCA, but a negative perception of PETA (despite their acronyms implying a similar purpose, semantically).
BLM = PETA... that particular semantically stated mission statement desperately needs its "ASPCA" equivalent... An organization that still upholds the values of police reform, ending qualified immunity, acknowledgement of the impacts of multi-generational racism, but without being saddled with all of the anti-capitalism and postmodernist feminism nonsense.
I'm curious - where did you source that BLM banner - and is it still there?
I understand that the main BLM homepage used to be communist and all that - but that it had a major overhaul since the money started flowing in and they realised they should tone down the Communism crap to actually achieve something. That is, realpolitik shoved out the Communist Propaganda. So I guess I'm asking when that banner was posted, and is it still there? Because BLM has had an overhaul, and maybe it's good for BLM that the founder is leaving? Anna the First has lost a lot of their grudge against BLM now that one of the founding commo's is leaving. That's the only reason Anna's sulking about them leaving - it removes one of his primary objections to BLM!
Which is what exactly?It's the exact same evidence that federal funding for Planned Parenthood somehow went specifically to funding abortions.
Yay - let's play "Gish Gallop all over the group I find scary."
I guess "HisLegacy" does hang out in Charismatic circles.
It's less about logically demonstrating your position, more about the emotions there. It's true because you FEEL it. So that then extends out to political FEELING as well.
Which is what exactly?It's the exact same evidence that federal funding for Planned Parenthood somehow went specifically to funding abortions.
Thank you! I'm an Australian, and tend to only get involved in BLM conversations when it really hits the news. But BLM is a funny organisation in that I'm not sure how much "Chapters" actually integrate with the overall mission of the main homepage. That is, smaller local groups might be influenced by local members to go in a wild direction. But the BLM About homepage is quite different.Black Lives Matter DC
Right from the home page of their DC chapter website.
About Us
The Chicago chapter still echoes a similar sentiment on their "About Us" page.
...and while Cullors is leaving from the sounds of it...BLM LA still has her memoirs on their "recommended reading list"
Resources — BLMLA
As well as works by Angela Davis (who also had a propensity for anti-capitalism ideas)
A report on the UK from the 90s?
It talks of institutional racism, and defines it as racism in practice or law. It's a report 24 years old. They looked for racism, they found it, I'm not surprised nor disagreeing with the results.
Are you saying nothing has changed in a quarter of a century?
If you have criticism of a report that looks at multiple factors, not just race, then let's hear it.
I'd assume if there were any actual defense for the bit I quoted a while back this post wouldn't have to resort to trying to shift the burden of proof.What do you think she labeled correctly?
You can add "racist" to the list of worthless words.
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