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As someone who finds them both distasteful and hateful; yes, they are very similar. All sides need to reign in their extremists, or become defined by them.
by whenchamenia 7y ago
As someone who finds them both distasteful and hateful; yes, they are very similar. All sides need to reign in their extremists, or become defined by them.
- untog 7y ago"similar" is a very vague term. We are talking ideologies that call for the extermination of other races here, in what way is Black Lives Matter equivalent?
- esailija 7y agoOne is about creating violence and hate against certain races, other is about reducing violence and hate against a race. They couldn't be more dissimilar.
- Frondo 7y agoBlack Lives Matter literally exists to highlight disproportionate police violence against people of color; not only are they not calling for expelling whites (the "reverse" of what a lot of white nationalists call for), what they are asking for is that people of color be treated by the state enforcement mechanism at parity with white people. You may find that distasteful, but it is difficult to see what aspect of that is hateful. From their own website: "We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise." https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ I'm only writing all this because it's very important not to let rhetoric like "white nationalists and Black Lives Matter are equivalent"; they're not and it's disingenuous or dishonest to conflate them.