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> We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for

> We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another A commune? Your child will be raised by the state automatically? It's hippy-dippy marxist nonsense.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago
Depends on how far you take it. "Your kids are on their way to becoming sociopathic gang members, but far be it from me to lift a finger to help you. My kids are fine." Yeah, that's going too far on the individualistic side. Help your neighbors and your community, not just your own family. "All children will be taken from their parent(s) at birth, and raised exclusively by the community/state." That's too far in the other direction. Take care of your own family first, don't depend on others to do it. (And if you think I contradict myself: I'm saying take care of your own family, and help others outside it, and (to the extent you can) don't depend on others to do the same for you. Give more than you get. Yes, it's unfair. Don't look at life in a purely selfing manner.) I can't tell, from the BLM statement, how far they want to go away from a pure no-community, nuclear-family-only position. (I must say, though, that "We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work 'double shifts' so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work" sounds to me like "We're too busy marching in the streets to take care of our own kids, so someone should do that for us".)
zo1 6y ago
You should read the rest of the page, it's quite eye-opening. It's most certainly not an equality movement for black people, it's some sort of leftist intersectional organization. No wonder people extrapolate the meaning of that marketing-language laden sentence. https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklive...

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

Depends on how far you take it. "Your kids are on their way to becoming sociopathic gang members, but far be it from me to lift a finger to help you. My kids are fine." Yeah, that's going too far on the individualistic side. Help your neighbors and your community, not just your own family. "All children will be taken from their parent(s) at birth, and raised exclusively by the community/state." That's too far in the other direction. Take care of your own family first, don't depend on others to do it. (And if you think I contradict myself: I'm saying take care of your own family, and help others outside it, and (to the extent you can) don't depend on others to do the same for you. Give more than you get. Yes, it's unfair. Don't look at life in a purely selfing manner.) I can't tell, from the BLM statement, how far they want to go away from a pure no-community, nuclear-family-only position. (I must say, though, that "We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work 'double shifts' so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work" sounds to me like "We're too busy marching in the streets to take care of our own kids, so someone should do that for us".)

zo1 6y ago

You should read the rest of the page, it's quite eye-opening. It's most certainly not an equality movement for black people, it's some sort of leftist intersectional organization. No wonder people extrapolate the meaning of that marketing-language laden sentence. https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklive...