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Maybe so but could you say why?

Probably because it doesn't focus on Black victims exclusively and is therefore adjacent to All Lives Matter and being White Supremacist.

If you've for some reason been listening exclusively to the anti-BLM garbage being spewed by right wing media, sure, I guess that's a reasonable thing to believe.

But there's a massive difference in saying "Policing in this country is broken - cops kill too many people" versus "Cops and lot of white _and_ black people.. see? BLM is a pointless movement". Right wingers seem to love to pretend they're saying the former when they actually mean the latter.

You're projecting. "BLM is a pointless movement" isn't a point of critique. It's "... and BLM only focuses on the Black victims".

There's a reason why mentions of studies that are including white victims quickly get flagged on HN, as this article was, obviously.

Projecting in the sense that.. my personal experience with this viewpoint has been exclusively made by friends, family, and randos on social media parroting this exact viewpoint for the exact reason I posited. Sure.

But yeah such political content is unfortunately bound to be flagged in HN unless it has some sort of explicit tech connection.

I think there's actually a case to be made that there is widespread soft corporate censorship enforcing a new orthodoxy on race discourse (and other things), I'm just waiting on somebody to make it rather than just firing another blind volley in the culture war.

I would agree that there has been a lot of problematic race rhetoric posed by certain BLM aligned folks.. and would definitely posit that such soft censorship is a problem for the development of a mutually beneficial understanding of the racial problems plaguing this country between members of different races (there might be a more elegant way to state this).

An example of this aggressive, non-empathetic, censoring attitude that grinds my gears would be when that FB employee tried to publicly shame a colleague for opting not to put a BLM banner on the developer docs of RecoilJS. The whole mantra of "Silence is violence" can apparently now be used to accuse anyone of the terrible thoughtcrime of not talking about racism at all times.. even in places and situations where it doesn't make sense or wouldn't help the cause.

Extrapolate this out to how many people are unwilling to consider or merely listen to viewpoints that aren't in complete alignment (with whatever the accuser holds to be the absolute truth of non-racism).. yuck.

IMO

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