• GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I have a lib friend who said only black people should be at BLM marches. I pushed back saying that it should be multi racial and white people can be shields to the vulnerable. We didn't go much further than that. This shit is rampant in lib circles. Like I would like to see mainly black leadership, but this shit is bad.

    • cacophony4ever [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The biggest threat to the ruling class is poor white people finding out they have more in common with poor black people than they do with rich white people. Because of that, there's a lot of money, power, and time spent to prevent that from ever happening.

    • LoMeinTenants [any]
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      4 years ago

      Tell them white people should volunteer to be teargas and bullet sponges just to hear the response.

    • longhorn617 [any]
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      4 years ago

      I've actually been worried that BLM has, for lack of a better word, a branding problem. I just got off the phone with both of my Trump-voting parents, and even they think that cops in general are out of control and these ones should have been charged with her murder. I don't want to diminish the fact that black people are statistically much more likely to experience this in America because racism keeps them as an underclass and the police function as an instrument of the class system to keep them there, but we do need to find a way to make it more clear to working class people across the board that this can happen to them, too.

    • joshieecs [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      so basically they're saying black people should do all the work while white people just sit back and watch. not a good look.