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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation doesn't speak for the Black Lives Matter movement.
by pseudalopex 6y ago
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation doesn't speak for the Black Lives Matter movement.
- everdrive 6y agoYou must admit this is very confusing. Which of those two groups are the good guys? Who does speak for them?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoBack in the days when Occupy movement was starting, and 4chan people were trolling Scientologists, this was lauded as a new era of social movements - decentralized. No central organization to squash, anyone can pick up the label and carry the fight. What we got was also predictable, though. If anyone can fight under any banner, if nobody owns the banner, there is no possibility to come to a compromise, to settle the differences. The proponents of a movement will pick the most benign shard as an example to defend and popularize their cause; the opponents of the movement will pick the most extremist shard as a justification to fight back. Everyone feels their survival is at stake.
- pseudalopex 6y agoThat's like asking who speaks for feminism, Occupy, or the gilets jaunes. They're decentralized.
- everdrive 6y agoThat's a fine point, but I was just told someone DIDN'T speak for them.
- pseudalopex 6y agoThey don't. No single person or organization can speak for a decentralized movement.
- everdrive 6y agoDoes this mean that the movement does not mean anything specific?
- fennecfoxen 6y agoSupposing your thesis to be true, the fact that you have to make that distinction only supports the claim I made. The foundation’s efforts are one key thing that distracts the movement from what I would assume to be the foundational goal of preserving black lives (specifically by seeing that they are no longer exposed to the direct, acute threats that tend to occur when interacting with police.) It seems then we are not in disagreement over substantive matters, but over minor questions such as phrasing.
- pseudalopex 6y agoWe seem to disagree whether a significant number of people in the BLM movement pay any attention to the BLM Global Network Foundation.