Originally Posted by
sinkov
Just an observation, but there seems to be a neat little lefty trick in play here, which they also used quite advantageously in the recent Brexit debate. In that debate they appropriated the word Europe and used it to mean the European Union. Amazingly it worked, numerous people actually seemed to believe that we were actually leaving Europe, they seemed genuinely distraught about it, maybe they imagined we would become detached and float out into the middle of the Atlantic. Anyone who preferred to be governed by our own elected representatives in Westminster instead of by a corrupt, un-elected bureaucracy in Brussels was stigmatised as anti-European, while being nothing of the sort. And it worked, it was a very effective strategy, even if totally dishonest.
And now a similar dishonest strategy is being employed again. That black lives matter goes without saying, for every normal, decent, civilised person anyway, there is simply no dispute about it. But an extreme left, racist, Marxist organisation has appropriated the slogan to garner support for and to further their own political agenda. They want to dismantle capitalism, abolish the police, close prisons and eradicate the concept of the nuclear family (that's two parents and their children to me and you). These people are fruitcakes, they claim our borders are enforced by extreme violence, that climate change is racism, that Covid 19 is racist, they even criticise the Suffragettes saying they were working to advance White Power.
Their aim is to stir up racial tension and division in a country that has gone a long way towards eradicating it in the last 20/30 years, they trample all over Martin Luther King's dream "that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." BLM are not interested in judging character, they are interested only in the colour of your skin, and if it's white, better get on your knees.
Like conflating the EU with Europe, conflating the fact that black lives matter with BLM, an extreme left, racist organisation, is also a neat trick, and also seems to have worked, so far. But given the fact that so many people who you would otherwise think of as sensible and intelligent have fallen for it, it's a bloody dangerous one.