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Genomicus
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Message 209 of 275 (801039)
03-02-2017 9:00 PM
Reply to: Message 208 by Faith
03-02-2017 8:54 PM


Re: the big picture
Just how peaceful IS BLM, since you want me to see it that way? When I hear about cops being killed because of BLM it's hard to think of it as peaceful.
Lol. Cops aren't being killed because of the Black Lives Matter movement. You're not sympathetic to Black Lives Matter because you don't see racial injustice as much of a problem.

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Genomicus
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Message 212 of 275 (801043)
03-02-2017 9:17 PM
Reply to: Message 211 by Faith
03-02-2017 9:10 PM


Re: the big picture
The Black Lives Matter website states their position rather clearly. You can read where specifically blacks face racial injustice in society (scroll to the bottom of the page to "What Does #BlackLivesMatter Mean?"): blacklivesmatter.com/about/
There is a voluminous empirical literature supporting each of the contentions of the #BlackLivesMatter position; if you disagree with what's written there, you're free to explain exactly why.
Edit to answer this:
LOL? What's amusing about this?
"Lol" in this context is more sardonic than comedic, a trait one picks up after interacting with Trump supporters and the new POTUS' policies.
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Genomicus
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Message 253 of 275 (801382)
03-05-2017 4:37 PM
Reply to: Message 250 by Faith
03-05-2017 4:31 PM


Re: the real picture (BLM)
Oh, "patriarchy." That's on the site too, another Marxist feminist term.
And the problem with the term "patriarchy" as used by third wave feminists is what exactly? Just because a concept originates in a Marxist framework doesn't mean it's wrong.

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Genomicus
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Message 260 of 275 (801394)
03-05-2017 5:20 PM
Reply to: Message 257 by Faith
03-05-2017 4:55 PM


Re: the real picture (BLM)
"Critical Theory" which is nothing but an excuse for destructive rhetoric against everything good and solid in American culture...
Critical Race Theory is used to de-construct and critique the systematic and institutionalized racism prevalent in America's legislative and other structures. Do you consider systematic racism part of "everything good and solid in American culture"?
it turns injustices into a whole theory of class oppression which justifies defining a hated enemy, such as the white race in the case of blacks...
No, CRT isn't about hating the white race -- it's about fighting and de-constructing white supremacy and privilege.
The rhetoric of Hate Whitey is in the BLM site.
Where specifically?
Maybe even a bit like Islam since it focuses on hated enemies defined as the problem to be done away with.
The eight million or so Minangkabau Muslims don't focus on hated enemies:
"The subject of Bin Laden came up a number of times during the summer. Everyone was adamant that the Islam they were taught prohibits violence and the use of force. We achieve our ends through negotiation and discussion, not through force, I was told. One man said that his Islamic education stressed the importance of thinking about others. The same idea was expressed to me in 1981 by the foremost adat-religious leader in West Sumatra, Dt. Idrus Haikimy, now deceased." - from ethnographic study by anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, post-9/11
That's just one example of how your prejudiced and ignorant perspective of Islam-as-monolithic leads you to make bizarre comments like the one above.
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Genomicus
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Message 274 of 275 (801502)
03-06-2017 4:34 PM
Reply to: Message 265 by Faith
03-06-2017 1:50 PM


Re: the real picture (BLM)
It's been fascinating to find out that you are a true Marxist yourself, I mean totally Marxified. "Critical Race Theory" yet. "De-construct" yet. I recognize those terms as Marxist along with the others I've been discussing here, but obviously nobody else does.
If you can muster a well-reasoned, non-emotional, "I-hope-you-choke-on-it"-free refutation of Critical Race Theory, then present it. Saying something or someone is Marxist is not a critique, or even an insult, for that matter.
(Do you know what "de-construct" really means? It means you feel free to trash other people's thoughts and substitute your own, your own of course being today's Marxist party line.)
No, it doesn't.
There is no systematic and institutionalized racism in America...
Then why is our winner-takes-all Electoral College voting system still used in the South, which has a legacy in racism and white supremacy and ensures that the Southern black vote counts for nothing (see, e.g., "The Illegitimate President: Minority Vote Dilution and the Electoral College," Yale Law Journal, 1996)? That's institutionalized racism. If all you white right-wingers actually cared about eliminating unfair and unjust power structures, why do you cling to this voting system?
We're in really bad shape if you're representative of what the universities are turning out these days.
Lol.

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