#BlackLivesMatter – Page 44

Police brutality against black people happens way less than public thinks

Social movements tap into our most primitive emotions, obscuring the complexities of sociopolitical problems. Reason is traded for ideological fervor and skepticism is swapped with religious dogma. Such was the case in 2020 in the wake of several high-profile cases of alleged police brutality involving black victims. Across the US and Western countries worldwide, activists and average citizens alike vigorously protested against a perceived (but empirically refuted) “epidemic of racist police killings.”

by Sarcasticat•February 28, 2021February 27, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, police, race war?, Racist!

Virginia College Forfeits Basketball Game After Suspending Players For Kneeling During Anthem

Bluefield College, a small Baptist liberal arts school nestled in the Appalachian mountains in Bluefield, Virginia doesn’t seem to be a likely place to make national news. But when players on the men’s basketball team took a knee during the playing of the national anthem — after being warned several times it was against school policy — the school president promptly suspended the players and forfeited a game.

by Sarcasticat•February 25, 2021February 24, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, A Little Good News, idiot students

Feds Offer New York BLM Terrorists Plea Deals

Terrorists who threw a lit Molotov cocktail into a police car during Black Lives Matter protests in New York last summer have been quietly offered a plea deal, according to court documents released yesterday.

by Sarcasticat•February 25, 2021February 24, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, Terrorism - Domestic

#MeToo and #BLM Were Pretexts for Massive Cultural Power Grabs

The hashtag identity politics activism that generated #MeToo and then #BLM has little to show for it except increased misery. MeToo got rid of a handful of real monsters like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, whose abuses were hardly a secret, a group of second-tier creeps like Charlie Rose whose abuses were more obnoxious than dangerous, and ended up giving a pass to other public figures whose political standing was more secure, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has his career fully restored to him. It also scapegoated countless people over minor, perceived, or invented offenses while creating a state of victimhood.

by Blazingcatfur•February 25, 2021February 24, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo

Race, Police, And Innumeracy

Here’s a question for you: How many unarmed black men were killed by police in 2019?

About 10
About 100
About 1,000
About 10,000
More than 10,000

Make your choice before you read further.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2021February 23, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

Saving Rugby from BLM Marxism

Governors of boarding schools are supposed to be custodians, not political activists

As an alumnus of Rugby School, I sometimes take a look at its website to receive updates and news. The kind of thing that piques my interest is seeing which members of staff have left or retired, or reading a news update about plans to construct a new facility.

Yet on my most recent visit I was dismayed to see a “Statement from the Board on Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on the front page. After expressing their “deep sadness” over the death of George Floyd, the Governors wax lyrical about widespread racial injustice before promising to launch a “significant research project into the relationship between our own institutional history and race, including re-assessing the role of [Old Rugbeans] in Britain’s complex history.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", #BlackLivesMatter

Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America

“…Socially mediated behavioral issues lie at the root of today’s racial inequality problem. They are real and must be faced squarely if we are to grasp why racial disparities persist. This is a painful necessity. Activists on the Left of American politics claim that “white supremacy,” “implicit bias,” and old-fashioned “anti-black racism” are sufficient to account for black disadvantage. But this is a bluff that relies on “cancel culture” to be sustained. Those making such arguments are, in effect, daring you to disagree with them. They are threatening to “cancel” you if you do not accept their account: You must be a “racist”; you must believe something is intrinsically wrong with black people if you do not attribute pathological behavior among them to systemic injustice. You must think blacks are inferior, for how else could one explain the disparities? “Blaming the victim” is the offense they will convict you of, if you’re lucky.”

Long read worth your time.

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2021February 14, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

‘Systemic racism’ is a conspiracy theory

The narrative behind movements like Black Lives Matter contends that hundreds – if not thousands – of black Americans are murdered by the state on an annual basis, that harassment and abuse of blacks by whites is constant, and that virtually all gaps in performance between racial groups must reflect hidden racism. These claims are almost universally false. But they have been accepted as conventional wisdom.

by Sarcasticat•February 12, 2021February 11, 2021•0•"racial justice", #BlackLivesMatter, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, Racist!

Meet the BLM Activist Who Helped Direct the January 6 Capitol Incident

The events of January 6 were never as straightforward as they were depicted by those seeking an excuse to criminalize political opposition. Consider this characterization of the day: “Trump Supporters and Proud Boys stormed the United States Capitol and attempted a coup on our Democracy. Jan 6th, 2021, the moment that changed America forever.”

Those lines by themselves are not especially interesting. It’s who wrote them that should raise eyebrows.

Meet John E. Sullivan, founder of Insurgence USA.

by Sarcasticat•February 11, 2021February 11, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, Batshit crazy lefties, riot

INSURRECTION: BLM Mob Swarms D.C. Streets, Chants ‘If We Don’t Get It, Burn It Down’

A mob of Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets of Washington, D.C. Saturday night to yell at police and harass outdoor diners while chanting insurrectionist slogans such as “if we don’t get it, burn it down.” Like most similar incidents involving Black lives Matter, the corporate media took zero interest in covering the march and accompanying threats of violence.

Chants of “If we don’t get it, burn it down” as the march continues in DC tonight #DC #DCProtests #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/YMxy90P4oj

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) February 7, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•February 7, 2021February 7, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

Minneapolis violent crimes soared in 2020 amid pandemic, protests

Violent crimes soared by 21% in Minneapolis last year, adding a painful coda to the city’s struggles in coping with a deadly pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice.

The city recorded 5,422 violent crime incidents, including homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults, according to preliminary year-end Minneapolis police statistics. That is a dramatic jump over the previous five years, which averaged roughly 4,496 such crimes. Property crime saw a more modest 10% increase.

by Blazingcatfur•February 7, 2021February 7, 2021•0•"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter

Why I am one of many former Minnieapolis PD officers

Minneapolis police officers have gotten no support in the aftermath of the 2020 protests, and many are struggling with PTSD.

I sit here in mourning.

I had a friend over for dinner recently and she told me that two Washington, D.C., police officers have committed suicide since the civil unrest at the Capitol on Jan. 6. I know so many people will jump to blame former President Donald Trump, but I don’t. I know better.

You see, I was a lieutenant with the Minneapolis Police Department, assigned to the Third Precinct. I had been a police officer in Minnesota for 37 years. I use the words “was” and “had been” because effective this month, I am retired.

h/t Marvin

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2021February 6, 2021•0•"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter

Minnesota governor activates National Guard ahead of trial for police officer involved in George Floyd’s death

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is preemptively activating the National Guard ahead of February’s trial for one of the police officers who has been arrested in connection with the death of George Floyd.

The governor warned that the trial, which is set to begin on March 8, could lead to “civil unrest” in Minneapolis and the surrounding area, in an executive order on Friday. Walz said he requested assistance from the state to “support public safety and security and to prevent or respond to potential civil unrest.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2021February 6, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

150 People Were Shot in Chicago Since Illinois Sent the National Guard to D.C.

Democrats occupy D.C. while their own people die every day.

After shooting deaths shot up 75% in Chicago, Governor Pritzker announced that he was dispatching 500 more National Guard troops to fight “the dark forces of racism” in D.C.

Washington D.C. may be suffering from “the dark forces of racism” since it’s currently in the hands of the party of racism, slavery, and segregation, but those National Guard troops would do a lot more good in Chicago where 81%, the majority of shooting victims, are black.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2021February 5, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", #BlackLivesMatter

Not The Bee: Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize

The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world.

In his nomination papers, the Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies.

“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Eide said. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2021January 29, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, WTF?