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Journalists Are Terrified of Criticizing BlackLivesMatter

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You have to admit - it's a brilliant bit of propaganda. Three words that, taken all alone, no living human being could possibly disagree with, but which have been inflated to mean a heck of a lot more than the phrase means all by itself.

Look up "It's OK to be white". It is, in my opinion, the most brilliant phrase ever conceived, a phrase nobody of sound mind would object to, yet is extremely divisive (due to its political use) to the point where people have lost their jobs for saying it.

Is there a word to describe such phenomena?

Shibboleth?

Or maybe it's a reverse dog whistle. (A dog whistle is something you and your group can hear but everyone else can't. A reverse dog whistle is something that everyone can hear, and know that you're trying to use a dog whistle.)

BLM's true intentions become clearer every passing day. Black-Lives-Matter does not stand for the words that make up its name. If they did, then they would be less authoritarian about firing black people who happen to disagree with their political ideologies. They don't care about black people. They care about power.

I care about black lives, but BLM itself can jump off the ledge alongside other extremist organizations.

Sorry, no.

Journalists from all over the political and social spectrums freely criticize Black Lives Matter:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/black-lives-matter-f...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/who-controls-black-live...

https://www.bet.com/article/n9amip/black-lives-matter-founda...

I think the media portraying the BLM riots as mostly peaceful tells you the intense fear many journalists have, because of the possibility they would be labeled a racist.

BLM not being peaceful would be a good thing. I'm reminded of Lincoln who was determined to burn America down to the ground to end slavery (and he did it literally in Georgia).

If you want radical change you need radical action.

I'm sure the people from Jan 6th would be in complete agreement with you. Not so much the people that lost loved ones or had their businesses/livelihoods destroyed due to the BLM riots.

Jan 6 was a group fighting for temporary political power, meanwhile BLM/black people are still fighting for equal rights after 400 years of unimpeded criminality from the dominant society. These two things are nowhere close to being equal.

Well that is simplistic hyperbole to say the least. And it really doesnt matter how you perceive things. People wanting radical change are going to act radically right?

I detect nothing simplistic or hyperbolic, these are clear facts backed by history.

Of course you don't.

You are right, some people think black liberation should be peaceful, comfortable, and not interrupt their daily lives in the slightest...

Both MLK and Malcolm X told us most of what we need to know about the white liberal when it comes to matters of anti-black racism.

Co-worker was fired last week for criticizing BLM. Another co-worker overheard, reported up the chain that "he didn't feel safe". Now everybody nearby limits conversation to "Hows the weather".

And I'm sure the management will keep yammering on about the "difficult conversations we need to be having."

Mainstream journalists in the USA almost never criticize actual problems:

- fcked up healthcare system

- fcked up social policies - no paid time off, no paid family leave, miserable min wage, and so on

- inflated drug prices

- political corruption

- inflated military budget

I guess that they are terrified too!

I will add to the list the following:

- corrupt judges... politically, socially activist, locally economic

- corrupt policing agencies... civil forfeiture, economic, egotistically driven

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