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Post by LGBT Anarchist on Feb 11, 2016 23:48:20 GMT
I'm curious to see people's opinions on this, as apparently a group of students is doing a walkout tomorrow for it and I plan on filming/doing journalism.
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Post by augustusancom on Feb 12, 2016 0:25:27 GMT
For me its like feminism, needed but a group of them take it to an extreme and overshadow the rest of the movement.
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Post by Dallas Rock on Feb 12, 2016 1:18:25 GMT
Exactly ^ it started off about equality but a lot are black supremacists now. I like the original purpose but I don't support what they've become.
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Post by caspertheanarchist on Feb 12, 2016 3:41:15 GMT
In Ferguson, the movement actually had what I would consider "Revolutionary Potential" which was ruined when the movement was hijacked by black supremacists and liberals.
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Post by anpacklaus on Feb 12, 2016 19:39:43 GMT
It's kind of like how I am egalitarian rather than a feminist. I'd rather represent the whole rather than the part. Therefore, all lives matter.
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Post by economic_illiterate on Feb 13, 2016 19:11:09 GMT
In Ferguson, the movement actually had what I would consider "Revolutionary Potential" which was ruined when the movement was hijacked by black supremacists and liberals. What modern activist movement hasn't been hijacked by liberals?
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Post by caspertheanarchist on Feb 13, 2016 19:39:54 GMT
In Ferguson, the movement actually had what I would consider "Revolutionary Potential" which was ruined when the movement was hijacked by black supremacists and liberals. What modern activist movement hasn't been hijacked by liberals? Eh true. Even Democratic Socialism which about 50 years ago was actually socialism, has now been hijacked by the liberal bandwagon.
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Post by somethingimpromptu on Feb 14, 2016 23:11:12 GMT
I'm certainly for the sentiment. Rioting and murdering random police isn't exactly a productive use of the Black Lives Matter movement's energies, and it's sullied their image, but this is a consequence that we should expect any time there's an eruption of (justified) rage from any oppressed/abused community that isn't well-organized and highly conscious of what can actually be done to resolve their situation. The people in Baltimore, for instance, at the time of the rioting, had been denied any constructive recourse within the system. So eventually the situation exploded.
But yeah-- as for the principle itself, of course black lives matter, and of course, as socialists, we should support the equalization of any situation of oppression (racial, sexual, ethnic, class, or otherwise). Clearly black people in our judicial/law enforcement system are a prime example of a subjugated group.
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Post by Logan_the_libcom on Feb 23, 2016 1:23:22 GMT
I like what it stands for in theory, but for every good member there's a Melisa Click
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Post by Logan_the_libcom on Feb 23, 2016 1:30:55 GMT
What modern activist movement hasn't been hijacked by liberals? Eh true. Even Democratic Socialism which about 50 years ago was actually socialism, has now been hijacked by the liberal bandwagon. Actual liberalism hasn't been hijacked by liberals yet
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Post by rumpleforeskin on Feb 23, 2016 5:38:51 GMT
It's kind of like how I am egalitarian rather than a feminist. I'd rather represent the whole rather than the part. Therefore, all lives matter. no
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 16:04:08 GMT
It's kind of like how I am egalitarian rather than a feminist. I'd rather represent the whole rather than the part. Therefore, all lives matter. This kind of disregard for the specific problems faced by specific groups of people is a very typical liberal position. This post was made several months ago, so you may have gained some perspective since then, but to all those that still think like this; The idea that no person/group of people is more important or valuable than another, and that there is therefore no reason to talk about the rights of individual people/groups of people, is admirable in theory, but in practise it completely ignores the fact that modern society is structured in a way where this simply isn't true. Racism, trans-/homophobia, sexism etc. are all so deeply ingrained in our societal institutions, that people that are not white cis straight men have an inherent disadvantage in society, that doesn't just disappear no matter how much you refuse to acknowledge it. In fact, ignoring it is in itself a type of silent approval, as conservatives/other authoritarian folk will continue to try to maintain and strengthen these injustices. Of course all lives matter and men are just as valuable as people of any other gender, but the fact is that SPECIFIC groups of people experience SPECIFIC forms of institutional oppression that other groups, in particular privileged ones, don't, and trying to hijack and generalise their movements in the name of "egalitarianism" is DISRESPECTFUL, HARMFUL, and an act of oppression in and of itself.
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Post by leftcom_bassist on Aug 1, 2016 4:40:19 GMT
It's kind of like how I am egalitarian rather than a feminist. I'd rather represent the whole rather than the part. Therefore, all lives matter. no yeah, no. 1) Feminism is inherently egalitarian (thus as an anarchist I am one) 2) All lives matter is racist cancer
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