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And while the movement is in some way political, in most ways the organization and the phrase simply stands for the idea that, well, Black Lives Matter That's
by orangecat 6y ago
And while the movement is in some way political, in most ways the organization and the phrase simply stands for the idea that, well, Black Lives Matter
That's just wrong. "Black lives matter" encompasses at least three separate categories of claims:
1. The lives of black people are inherently as valuable as the lives of others.
2. The US and western civilization in general is based on white supremacy at its core, and all disparities that disfavor minorities are solely due to present-day racism.
3. Radical change is necessary in order to solve the problems of racism, including reparations, abolishing the police, and ending capitalism.
BLM often ends up being a motte-and-bailey where anyone who isn't totally on board with #2 or #3 is accused of denying #1.
This is where HR comes in to help train and guide around keeping those conversations productive and beneficial to everyone, because people grow by having their viewpoints challenged and expanded
I suspect there are certain viewpoints that can be challenged and others than cannot.
- dangus 6y agoI hoped that it was obvious by my word “mostly” that I was trying to distill the idea. #2 is objectively true, ask any historian. #3 is making a whole lot of assumptions about the goals and beliefs of an extremely large tent. There are absolutely viewpoints that aren’t allowed to be challenged at work. But what you’re getting close to alluding to is the flawed idea of all ideas being equally acceptable. The idea that Black Lives Matter is not on equal plane with the inverse. Those against the idea over technicalities are on the wrong side of history and human decency.