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Do you have a post of this? Last I look BLM, mistakenly, believes the protests are about the embargo. I haven't seen anything from them supporting or criticizin

• throwaway894345 5y ago
  Their social media post[0] blaming the embargo is parroting the Cuban Dictatorship’s response, and the post itself refers to the embargo as “undermining the rights of the Cuban people to choose their own government” which IMO strongly implies that the Dictatorship is the rightful government of the Cuban people. This seems like pretty clear support of the Cuban Dictatorship to me. Note that, like other communist countries, Cuba hasn’t had free elections since the Communist Party took over. So the “US undermining Cubans’ right to choose their own government” would be an absurd error—it’s very, very hard to believe BLM doesn’t know this and accidentally stumbled into rote Communist rhetoric. Similarly, it’s pretty hard to believe that the they think the US embargo is responsible for the disconnection of Internet, the police brutality toward protesters, etc or other overtly authoritarian facets of the protests. Nor the lack of medicine or food considering the embargo specifically allows those items, but Cuban policy effectively prevents Cubans from accessing those items (the government fears that it’s citizens might become sympathetic to US interests if the US is the one feeding and treating its population). Again, these are people who see “authoritarianism” in every aspect of US government and culture, and they accidentally overlooked it in Cuba? [0]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRU5kYYp-UU/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRU5kYYp-UU/