Black Lives Matter? (BLM)

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  1. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    What's the understand it was a scam so that Patrice colors could buy a couple mansions.

    Did you donate to your millionaire?

    It's much like a mega church. Give me money because you need me.

    The only difference is it doesn't really have any values so it's going to die pretty quickly
     
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    dixon76710 Well-Known Member

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    Actually I said they "reduced funding for Police departments across the country".

    Nonsense. Jesse isnt racist against blacks.
     
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    I have not seen BLM, as an organization, speak directly to crime in urban neighborhoods other than, by implication, blaming it on white supremacy.

    I've taken another look at the organizations website and see nothing about the black homicide rate. I see nothing about that issue being part of their mission on the site's "About" page. Here you take a look:

    https://blacklivesmatter.com/

    Can you find any evidence of BLM voices on this issue on this or any of the city-chapter sites? I cannot.

    So perhaps it's less about my ear and more about your imagination.
     
  4. edna kawabata

    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    Explain how nationwide is different than across the country, because I'm not getting it.
    I didn't say Jackson was a racist you did.

    Isn't there a word for confidently ignorant? BLM was a popular nationwide protest against police brutality in POC neighborhoods. It got police departments to change policies and procedures. It also cleared out a lot of dead wood who didn't like the new rules. It also became another right-wing boogeyman. It's okay white people you don't have to be afraid.

    See the above. You seem to want to assign BLM a larger task than it took on. Your argument is specious.
     
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    No, we're in agreement BLM is not speaking to the horrendous loss of black life to gun homicides in our cities, most of which is the result of black on black crime.

    My point is that if black lives do matter, it should not matter how black lives are lost. To BLM, it clearly does, and they're welcome to my newly proposed logo on a royalty free basis.
     
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    Select cities across the country isnt "nationwide"

    I asked and you quoted my question of whether Jackson was a racist an you never answered. I said Jackson discriminates on the basis of race, hes not a racist, and YOU SAID discrimination on the basis of race is racism.
    And the police discrimination against blacks is no different than Jacksons discrimination. Neither are based upon racism.
     
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    Feeling with a scam by Patrice colors to make money.

    The change in police have been less ability to do their job and higher crime.
     
  8. edna kawabata

    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    It does matter how Black lives are lost. That is the point of BLM that you don’t seem to comprehend. An agency that is there to “serve and protect” that was abusing its function without any repercussions had become intolerable and the public protested.

    Your quote was BLM caused "reduced funding for Police departments across the country". And now at this late date you insert “select cities”? I can say some “select cities” had increased funding post BLM protests. So the first iteration was wrong and the second pointless.

    Discrimination on the basis of race is racism. It must be ego feeding your continued denial. Jackson, if you must know my opinion was being careful not racist, as I tried to illustrate earlier.

    So you think they should do away with body cams, allow choke holds and the ability to shoot when not threatened and also not hold officers to higher standards. Is that how they operate in Kekistan?
     
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    [​IMG]
    Since this is Black History Month, here is a picture that is a part of history.
    You should know what this picture is telling you.
     
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    BLM didn't do anything about any of that it just bought a scam artists a couple of mansions.
     
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    That Woolworth has lousy service?
     
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    Wrong!
    The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store—now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum—in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-in of the civil rights movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the best-known sit-ins of the civil rights movement. They are considered a catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement, in which 70,000 people participated. This sit-in was a contributing factor in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
     
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    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    If that is all you got out of the BLM protests, then you must be listening to Kekistani media and not the real world.

    Man you are deep.

    Yes, and look at the guy behind the counter. Think how bad and embarrassed he felt. He couldn't serve his people at the counter. He couldn't eat at that counter.
     
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    wants else is to get out of it? I suppose I got out of it don't be a police officer. Also I don't need calling you protests just seditious anarchist riots that means and did nothing


    kekistan is a dead meme. It literally meant lol. But I guess you take issue when something makes fun of your precious Nazis
     
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    8 cities spread across the country from Portland to DC who "reduced funding" for the police, makes my statement that cities had ""reduced funding for Police departments across the country" accurate. And I wouldnt consider 8 cities to be a "nationwide" reduction in police funding. And you argue pointless semantic points because you have no relevant points to make.

    Jackson is discriminating on the basis of race. You simply dont consider it to be racism because he is black. The same as discrimination by the police against blacks. Its discrimination that reflects the police's experience with blacks and whites. Just like Jackson, a white or black cop, approaching a black man for a criminal violation is going to be more "careful" more on edge in anticipation of trouble based upon his past experience. Its not racism and is instead discrimination. No different than the police discrimination against men, in favor of women. NOT because they are sexist but instead discrimination against men, based upon their past experience with men.
     
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    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    And I thought Kekistan was a nation of trolls. I, unlike others, can admit when I'm wrong.

    If I say there were 2,832 police departments that increased funding is that semantics? Out of your "8" here is just one actual story on "defunding".
     
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    you thought incorrectly it's a dead meme.

    I don't think you can admit when you're wrong. I don't think you're capable of believing you're wrong even when you are.

    Everything I've seen you type in response to me on this thread has been 100% wrong.
     
  18. edna kawabata

    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    And did you notice, I didn't actually say I was wrong about Kekistan being the land of trolls?
     
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    You couldn't possibly admit to be wrong even when you make a claim it's ridiculous is kekistan being a land.

    It was a meme it was never a country or a land.

    I would argue that it wasn't trolling either it was laughing at people for trolling themselves. Kek literally means lol
     
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    I’d wager more black lives will be lost to gun homicide this weekend alone on the South Side of Chicago than will have unjustly lost their lives to police over the last ten years.

    The idea that the police are somehow the bigger, more urgent threat to black lives, and thus should be the higher priority issue, is preposterous.
     
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    I'm sorry you didn't get it, but Kekistan is being used as a metaphor.

    Another case of ideology overwhelming reason. It seems to be an infectious disease, especially of the right.
    Physicians kill many patients every year because of malpractice. Disease causes many, many more deaths. Would you blame an organization wanting to clean up rampant malpractice for not caring about all the other deaths and dismissing it?
     
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    Reliance on cherry-picked evidence is generally not considered a sign of sound reasoning.

    What does stand to reason is that if you believe black lives matter, and I do, then you should perhaps focus on the social pathologies that are taking the most black lives. What is less than reasonable is to willfully ignore the biggest cause of premature death in blacks in favor of a more comfortable political narrative, something one can fairly accuse of the political left.
     
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    Uh, this is BLM thread. Perhaps you didn't understand my analogy above. I have commented extensively on the social pathology of African American culture in other threads. Where you been? Out making assumptions about the left?
     
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    I suggest you worry less about my understanding of this thread and more about your own.

    My critique was about BLM, and that's what makes it relevant to this thread; post #74 should make that obvious. Your mistaken belief that my post was a criticism of you is what's irrelevant here. Sometimes, it's not all about you.
     
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    Apparently my analogy went over your head. BLM's function was to demand police reform. It was not there to address the widespread social pathology of African American culture and for that you found an excuse to dismiss it....okay, if that makes you feel better.
     

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