What do you honestly think of Black Lives Matter?

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What do you honestly think of Black Lives Matter?

  1. The moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers

    4 vote(s)
    3.6%
  2. Fully justified although they go too far sometimes.

    24 vote(s)
    21.4%
  3. Impossible to say

    1 vote(s)
    0.9%
  4. Unjustified although I understand where they're coming from.

    9 vote(s)
    8.0%
  5. Bunch of racist thugs.

    74 vote(s)
    66.1%
  1. Starcastle

    Starcastle Well-Known Member

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    You seem to think BLM is only about police brutality.
     
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    Esdraelon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That demonstrated by MOST of the marchers aligned with this group that was founded BY SELF DESCRIBED MARXISTS. After the drug-overdose death of a stellar example of inner-city manhood in Minneapolis, who also happened to be knelt on by an idiot with a badge, the support for BLM skyrocketed.
    Hell, even Sean Hannity was on board in support. Then we saw months of what these thugs were REALLY about and all that support vanished, and rightly so. I don't give a damn who thinks or says I'm RAY-SUS! That descriptor is so overused that it's little more than a bad joke. While you waste time wailing and moaning about Trump supporters acting stupidly in DC, I'll remind anyone else here who isn't an insane partisan that not one gun charge or charge for Insurrection has been levied against ANYONE IN THE PROTEST ON 1/6 Your rhetoric is lame. Not one gun used, not a single charge for any arson. Let's compare that to your darlings in BLM. They were at the center of 6 months' worth of looting, burning, and about 50 murders. 2 BILLION in damage to the communities they were trying to "help". And the Left is shaking in fear over a single day in DC. HYPOCRITES, the LOT of them.
     
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    Find me the difference. They don't, just the tiny minority of extremists. Black on black is the point, people who say the police give undue attention and use more force against African Americans are missing the point, it's the disproportionate violence of black society that is the problem.
     
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    There is no evidence they are "harassed all the time" and there is no excuse for being belligerent.
     
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    Who says they aren't?
     
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    There's plenty of black celebrities that tell the same stories about being pulled over just for looking suspicious in certain areas of a city or community.
    I doubt they all lie.

    It's likely not known by white cops as it's just par for the course.
    Ron Johnson, Senator from Wi, makes a racial comment about the Capitol riots, the biased racism is rampant in his statement and he doesn't even know it because it's the way its been his entire life. It's like systemic racism because it's just part of many people's daily lives and they are unaware of it.
    Like an unknown prejudice or bias.
     
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    Just ask Jussie Smollett....
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Use Bayesian as your way to find out.

    Test your statement to try to disprove it.
    It means nothing at all once you understand it.
     
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    I don't know any groups self described as marxists.
    Gotta link? Or you just making that up.

    But of all the protests across the country in 2020 of Geo Floyd, 96% of them were peaceful.
    ...
    The study found there were more than 7,000 separate Black Lives Matter anti-racism events across the country in May and June. Ninety six percent of them had no property damage, and 98% had no injuries reported
    ...
    https://www.wshu.org/post/uconn-study-least-96-black-lives-matter-protests-were-peaceful#stream/0

    So, the conclusion from your posts is they simply are not true. You seem to be making them up as you type.
     
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    I'm sure there are people like Ron out there, just like the Al Sharptons' of the world. That doesn't mean there's a huge racist conspiracy out there. I can't complain if someone looks like someone who recently committed a crime and gets stopped- that's called smart policing. We want criminals caught.
     
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    Wow, you are able to name 1 black person who told a story. Good on you.
    That's like what? 0.00000005% of the black population?
     
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    Never said anything about conspiracy theorists.

    Whites and blacks are still fairly separated in our society yet today.
    The biases are not in the conscious of most people Just like Ron Johnson.
    Sharpton was being prejudice on purpose. Johnson is doing so because he is likely unaware.

    All black folks look alike, AMIRITE? So it's ok to pull people over because they have the same skin color making them look like a suspect.

    How many white get pulled over simple because a suspect is white?
    But at least you are admitting that being a skin color makes one a suspect if the complaint mentions the skin color is black. And you call it, 'good policing'. I think that is one of the problems in the country, IMO.
     
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    Totally correct. And a Riot? The way genuine riots happen was demonstrated in Portland, OR vs the cops.
     
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    How many times in your life have you been pulled over for being black?
     
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    Ah yes, I'm glad you brought this up.

    When you're looking for someone who recently committed a crime some people will look alike. This is true of ANY color skin. If there is probable cause to stop that vehicle and it turns out there's a ****head in the car who has warrants/illegal items that IS good policing.

    Or would you rather them wander about and doing more crime?

    Sharpton is a race baiting clot, worse than Ron but not by much.
     
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    I thought that even you would know that one. Check out Al Sharpton's legacy of scams.
     
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    That IS what it's about.
     
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    Black on black is not the point. That is criminality. That is a different subject.

    When a criminal who happens to be black commits a crime on another black person, it's not because that person is black, it's because the criminal chooses the path of least resistance, and reasons that it's easier to commit a crime in his or her neighborhood where he or she will not stand out like he or she would in, say, Beverly Hills. But it's criminality, it has nothing to do with non criminal blacks reacting to policy brutality, it's a different subject.
     
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    So you are too lazy to even read their website?

    https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

    The movement started with Trayvon Martin. He was not even killed by a cop.

     
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    A BS roundabout way to say you do not care about black lives unless there is a white person to blame.
     
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    Okay, they want to treated equal. Fine. you got me.

    Whatever they support, I support.
     
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    Black on black crime is a problem just as much as white on white, or white on black, or black on white, any and all crime is.

    IT IS ALL CRIMINALITY, THE SUBJECT OF WHICH IS CRIMINALITY.

    BLM is a movement by non criminal blacks wanting equal treatment, they are tired of being treated as fear object,s tired of being portrayed as criminals in movies, tired of being stereotyped, tired of being mistreated or shot when they are stopped by police, etc etc.

    They are two different subjects.
     
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    Black on black crime is a much bigger problem for all of us. Stop with the talking points bs. When black men who are 6% of the population are committing half the murders that is damn big problem.

    When black men are murdered by other black men they are just as dead as those shot by police.

    All of society pays for this crime.
     
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    Wow what an original concept. Equality. Never heard of that one before.
     

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