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What do you think BLM is? Would it surprise you to learn that the vast majority of the BLM protests in 2020 were completely nonviolent? Or that more than a coup
by ttfkam 5y ago
What do you think BLM is? Would it surprise you to learn that the vast majority of the BLM protests in 2020 were completely nonviolent? Or that more than a couple of marches led by MLK were marred by violence?
MLK was hated by many at the time. To see why, just look at the comments opposing BLM today. They are conspicuously similar in tone and content.
- ceejayoz 5y agoPrecisely. Look at the anti-MLK editorial comic pictured in https://www.cbr.com/martin-luther-king-jr-cartoons-depictions-1960s-media/ https://www.cbr.com/martin-luther-king-jr-cartoons-depiction.... Identical messaging you see used against BLM today; titled "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow" with MLK pictured front of a burning hellscape.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoKenosha certainly was a site that just happened to be on fire as peaceful BLM protesters passed by. It is only the evil media character assassination campaign that forever tarred this otherwise splendid organization. You present a good argument, but it falls flat before simple facts. MLK left images of crossing the bridge dressed as an accountant. BLM left images of a riot. Anti-BLM propaganda does not even have to work hard. All it needs is amplification.
- wolverine876 5y agoFinding one scene of violence (and I have no idea what happened there) is meaningless. We can find scenes of violence after sporting events. There were violent protests during the civil rights era too, and the enemies of civil rights exploited it in the same way with the same language. The question of violence is how often it occurs on a broader scale. I live where there were many, many protests and little violence (and often the violent ones were outsider instigators and criminals looking to create it, not civil rights protesters).
- _xnmw 5y agoMLK was very different from BLM. I say that as a black person myself. MLK spoke about American greatness and American dignity and accorded the highest respect to the Founding Fathers, whereas BLM-aligned folks tend to trash these topics and want to tear down statues.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoBlack people were protesting these statues in the 60s too. A more realistic viewpoint is that it took nearly 60 years to gain enough power to do something about them. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/black-protestors-have-been-rallying-against-confederate-statues-generations-180977484/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/black-protestors-have... If you want to continue trashing BLM, maybe look into how MLK was received in the 60s. There are a lot of people trying to amp up myths to intentionally use MLK to disparage BLM. Make sure you're not unintentionally getting caught up in that.
- xwdv 5y ago
- micromacrofoot 5y agoIf you look at some polls MLK was seemingly hated more universally in his time than BLM is today. Many of the attacks are the same, but today there's an odd rhetoric that attacks what BLM does with an imaginary myth that protests during MLK's time were wholly peaceful (they weren't, and were also derided due to violence at the time).
- froggertoaster 5y agoI already know that most of the BLM protests were non-violent. Notice that in my comment I didn't mention BLM or any other particular movement - your assumptions are appreciated though.