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Tbh I can’t actually find a reference to ALL the BLM aims that Tricky describes and I don’t think that’s the crux of the issue anyway.

I don’t doubt that there is some degree of unrealistic idealism/dogmatism amongst those most involved in the BLM cause but, as I’ve already asserted, there will always be a need for a reactive response so long as racism remains so prevalent within society.

Calling it a ‘farce’, as was done in the original post is, imo, wrong. It’s actually a tragedy...a tragedy that we still have to spend time dealing with such issues in 2022 and I don’t recognise the ‘brainwashing’ you speak of.

Ultimately, seeking to eradicate racism is always going to be more ‘laudible’ than defending those who seek to humiliate those prepared to take a stance against it...imo.
Thinly disguised pop at me. But you never try very hard do you when it conflicts you.

BLM activists have made no secret of their views. “When we started Black Lives Matter, it wasn’t solely about police brutality and extrajudicial killing,” one of BLM’s three co-founders, Opal Tometi, confessed to The New Yorker. The issue was just “a spark point” to begin “calling for the defunding of police, a moratorium on rent, a moratorium on mortgages and utilities” and issuing “demands” relating to “housing and education and health-care systems.” Reparations through racial socialism: The M4BL platform, which BLM endorses, states, “We demand reparations for past and continuing harms,” including both “corporate and government reparations” for a litany of ills that include “food apartheid” and “racialized capitalism.” Government reparations will take “the form” of “a guaranteed minimum livable income for all Black people.” M4BL/BLM’s “universal health care” policy mandates that “wealthy residents pay for a portion of their services while low-income and working class folks receive free services.” The new system will be modeled on France or Germany. Black Americans will also receive government-funded “control of food sources, housing and land.” Robust reparations programs will include “full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education” at any university, community college, or technical education facility, as well as “retroactive forgiveness of student loans.” Defunding the police and ending prisons: BLM’s best-known demand is to “defund the police.” M4BL also proposes an “end” to arrests of any black students, and “an end to all jails, detention centers, youth facilities and prisons as we know them.” House arrest would be promoted equally with imprisonment. The government would also expand Pell grant funding to educate inmates and “[a]llow access to gender affirming surgeries” in penitentiaries at taxpayers’ expense. tart a “global liberation movement” to overthrow capitalism: “The interlinked systems of white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism and patriarchy shape the violence we face,” the M4BL/BLM platform states. “As oppressed people living in the US, the belly of global empire, we are in a critical position to build the necessary connections for a global liberation movement. Until we are able to overturn US imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy, our brothers and sisters around the world will continue to live in chains.” Political movement- hijacked by good intentions In the mean time, they buy themselves mansions and award themselves gross salaries, Socialism at it finest