Black Lives Matter Movement Nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

BLM is neutral at best. I do think the cause is sound but it really attracted bad people who took advantage and destroy things over the summer.

> He dismissed criticism that BLM is violent, citing data that shows 93% of Black Lives Matter demonstrations do not cause serious harm to people or property.

That also means at least 7% of demonstrations did... cities were burning for months. There's even a video of a BLM protester outright executing a Trump supporter in the street.

I'm sure the owners of thousands of business premises destroyed by BLM will sleep well at night knowing the worlds most useless prize is being awarded to BLM.

Nobel "mostly peaceful" Prize

The world has lost its collective mind.

Like I said a few months ago, Scihub's Alexandra Elbakyan should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She leads a magnificent effort in democratizing, disincentivizing and decentralizing science, opening up untold possibilities for everyone around the world.

Bill Gates the billionaire philanthropist who has all the tools in hand to do the same, is just too damn greedy and too damn stupid to realize that liberating science presents the biggest opportunity for humanity in history.

trump, putin, hitler, and stalin were all nominated for peace prizes at some point

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Peac...

Wow how many HN users went straight to hyperbolic comparisons to the worst people in history and conflating protests with conceptual activism.

Call the kettle black though eh.

PS: BLM manifesto was legit. Any of you actually read it?

Remember that being nominated doesn't mean much, so don't start the political lamentations just yet. A Norwegian MP nominated BLM. Another Norwegian MP nominated Trump. (I'm not saying they won't win, I'm just suggesting that we try to avoid the angry sarcasm until they do.)

Good for them. Though I worry about the wasted potential of recent BLM protests. As soon as there began to be consensus about police violence and a need for reform, activists pivoted to a “defund the police” message. Whatever policy merits this might have, it created a missed opportunity to reform qualified immunity. The conversation pivoted from focus on real police violence to canceling anyone offering constructive critique of the movement (like David Shor).

So instead of having an ongoing conversation about police violence, activists are caught in a purity spiral to weed out dissent that won’t solve any problems.

Note that many people have been nominated, even Hitler, but curiously when the committee was in the perfect position to recognize Ghandi, they declined to nominate anyone, stating that that “there was no suitable living candidate”. IMO the Nobel committee has zero credibility.

https://qz.com/803976/adolf-hitler-was-nominated-for-the-nob...