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Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Should you get fired? Or is that free speech?

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That's what the ACLU has been screaming on the rooftops for years:

"We All Need to Defend Speech We Hate"

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/we-all-need-defend-spe...

>Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Isn't that one of the core tenants of the BLM campaigns? "Separate but equal" community policing for African American neighborhoods..

That's not true at all. This sounds a lot like the random anti BLM propaganda you see on facebook.

The core tenants of BLM are that CURRENTLY black communities are policed in a radically different way than white communities. BLM activists want everyone to have a just and fair policing.

No, it's nothing new... here is an article about the same thing from 2017... unless they have changed, BLM is a separatist movement.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/black-lives-matter-ra...

The assertion in that article is that all BLM activists and the whole movement are black separatist and racists because a "media commentator" taunted Tucker Carlson? That article also does not mention that she lost her job as a result of that interview (cancellation works both ways).

While there may be black separatists who support BLM, BLM is not a black separatist movement. Ultimately any black separatists will be frustrated by BLM's goals of an inclusive and just society.

Also, National Review is about as unbiased as Daily Kos, and has other ideological goals when discrediting BLM.

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