Why are we beating around the bush even on anonymous platform like this one?
What do "conversations", language policing, social media activism, etc actually do to improve the situation? Where are the actual actions and involvements like volunteering for actual work in a poor community?
Why is the suggested action so often giving money? Buy this book about how to be a good white person, donate to local BLM chapter, support this twitter activist on Patreon, hire a racial issues consultant for a company seminar?
If anybody really cares about black lives they should be deeply concerned with gang violence, human trafficking, drugging minors, etc. Where are the conversations about that?
For me it is clear that a lot of individuals are taking advantage of a real problem for their own goals and purposes, even wiling to do more harm than good. And now we are debating whether it's worth to sacrifice certain freedoms not to offend them.
> If anybody really cares about black lives they should be deeply concerned with gang violence, human trafficking, drugging minors, etc. Where are the conversations about that?
There's no question that BLM is being hijacked by groups with entirely different agendas - most of whom couldn't care less about black lives.
...but this argument is a logically flawed whataboutism. It's entirely reasonable to protest a lesser problem. It doesn't mean you don't care or work to fix the larger problems.
BLM has as much in common with black lives as ANTIFA has with anti fascism as Democratic People's Republic of Korea has with democracy. Just empty slogans.
What do "conversations", language policing, social media activism, etc actually do to improve the situation? Where are the actual actions and involvements like volunteering for actual work in a poor community?
Why is the suggested action so often giving money? Buy this book about how to be a good white person, donate to local BLM chapter, support this twitter activist on Patreon, hire a racial issues consultant for a company seminar?
If anybody really cares about black lives they should be deeply concerned with gang violence, human trafficking, drugging minors, etc. Where are the conversations about that?
For me it is clear that a lot of individuals are taking advantage of a real problem for their own goals and purposes, even wiling to do more harm than good. And now we are debating whether it's worth to sacrifice certain freedoms not to offend them.