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The claims of BLM and allied activists are not so measured and reasonable as the shorthand you propose: > At BLM protests, and from BLM proponents, we have sin
by jevoten 5y ago
The claims of BLM and allied activists are not so measured and reasonable as the shorthand you propose:
> At BLM protests, and from BLM proponents, we have since heard that “it’s open season” for police to kill black people, and that police are “hunting” black people. According to the BLM website itself, “Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise” by “state-sanctioned violence against Black people''.
- zozbot234 5y ago> "Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise" by "state-sanctioned violence against Black people". This is not an unfair characterization, especially if you expand the scope of "state-sanctioned violence" against Black communities beyond the matter of policing to encompass the criminal justice system as a whole. The whole ideology of "tough on crime", notably favored and pushed by the current POTUS and VPOTUS alike, has been among their most dismal failures in living memory. Sad!