Sculptor1 wrote: ↑September 27th, 2020, 7:40 am
For all those that can watch this and still think BLM is a communist plot, maybe you should consider your position? What is it you see when you see a black face? DO you see a human?
Seems like damn near anyone who can say it's 'x' and 'x' is a single tidy narrative doesn't know what they're on about and so I'd worry about anyone who says that it's strictly that or that it hasn't at all been infiltrated by various kinds of accelerationist.
- Police brutality and particularly poor training and even worse self-defense and weapons training is part of this.
- A history of the state using the police as a tool for violence against the poor, and particularly minorities, is a big part of this.
- Legal equality and laws enforcing equality have not returned the expected results and that's clearly been a negative contributing factor.
- A US, and really the same story across the commonwealths and Europe, that's being hollowed out through automation and global trade thus fewer jobs and increasing power on the part of employers to squeeze what labor they have.
- The ever present genetic arms race where everyone's genes are a bit more important the next person's and where peace is for losers, hatred is for winners.
- A social media landscape that's taken this last point, ie. perpetual state of war in nature, and turned it into massive disinformation based on competing interests, maximizing for clicks rather than facts (Tristan Harris is great on this) thus there's increasingly less of a shared truth.
- Foreign countries are *absolutely* taking the social media landscape as a means to foment unrest in competing countries - you could hardly get a sweeter deal for both effectiveness and plausible deniability.
The really terrifying thing about social media is that it can take individual people's failings, somewhere in the world, and magnify them to the sky if they fit a reliable narrative that people already believe. In the case of George Floyd you have people like John McWhorter and Glen Loury pointing out that this is something that's happening to white people at the hands of the police as well and they've given examples.
As far as BLM I've noticed something increasingly, and the case was made in my own home city when they had a protest at the Justice center. They were actually peaceful, they made their way from a given point downtown to the Justice center where a whole bunch of white kids masked, dressed in black, with book bags were waiting. Whoever was organizing those kids, per some of the reporters who were watching the riots instigated by them, were from out of town - ie. they didn't know which way it was from where they were at to certain key landmarks that anyone from my city would know. There probably are some crazies who do fit the BLM metrics and do make the movement look terrible. One of the troubles with leaderless movements is they can't effectively screen their membership and activism, unfortunately, tends to fill up with psychopaths and manipulators fast if it gains any steam or power.
My own opinion on BLM is a mixed bag.
On one hand I think of Ice T in his Body Count video 'No Lives Matter' or Public Enemy with Nas et. al. doing the 2020 'Fight the Power' remix - I have a lot of respect for that, especially with Ice T stating that when it comes down to it it's not about race - it's a really twisted elite against blacks, against Hispanics, against poor whites, against everyone, and to them 'no lives matter' save their own.
On the other hand there's the 'Defund the police' side. Unless one wants the military to take their place and live under some form of martial law it's an absurdity. It's tough to tell how much of that is psychopaths rent-seeking, how much of that is outside plants trying to twist the movement, or how much of that is people being genuinely that uneducated. Corruption done right though makes any sort of distinguishing what-from-what impossible though and so the fade between grifting, astroturf injections, and incompetence - much like voting fraud - tends to be a massive haze by design.
Humbly watching Youtube in Universe 25. - Me