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Originally Posted by JD¹³
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Holy shit Mike. Touting an esoteric view?! That's what you're going to call it?! That one line I copied is from a full post on Facebook that reads like it's out of a new version of Mein Kampf. Never in my LIFE even in my mid-twenties like she was at the time have I had thoughts, and so much conviction in those thoughts, that I would post multiple times to social media about a different ethnicity being sub-human and asking god to give me the strength not to kill them. Esoteric view?! Get the fuck outta here. You're defending a blatant bigot. Stop it. And after all that nowhere did I say her individual actions were reflective of the organization as a whole. I stated they should have accountability and be consistent with their message: big difference.
The rest of your post is keyword deflective nonsense. Read this part of my post again: "I wasn't going to weigh in on this thread because the amount of virtue-signalling and posters putting words and thoughts in to others mouths/heads to do so is absolutely gross."
That's you Mike. Nowhere have I ever posted on this forum that I'm a "professed Conservative Party supporter". You're all about attaching labels and then putting words in my mouth I've never said about topics that have absolutely nothing to do with the discussion. My asking for personal and professional accountability doesn't lump me in to ANY party or movement. This thread is about the death of George Floyd, the protests and riots that have resulted, and the Black Lives Matter movement and organization. That's it. If you can't or don't want to respond to the legitimate questions people have about these things then don't. But going off on rambling tangents to try and prove a point I think you lost along the way is *GASP* virtue signalling.
Stop using keywords like "dog whistle" and "right-wing arguments" when someone asks a hard question about what a proposed non-profit organization is doing with their donation money, especially when by their own accounts they have no public accounting after seven years in operation! You stated "Why is it when a black organization is put together, Conservatives like yourself want to know where each penny is going?" Want to just call me racist outright instead of beating around the bush? It's got nothing to do with the organization being run by African-Americans. When cities are being burned down and people killed in scores in the name of said organization and the moronic Defund The Police movement (that BLM has popularized!) these are valid questions. BLM claims to want equality and change yet have done nothing to enact change in their own communities except organize more rallies. I never said they're paying protestors but the Executive Director of the organization says the money is going to "civic engagement, expansion of chapters, [and] organizing and digital advocacy resources and tools" aka paying organizers!
So spare us your bullshit, your bias is obvious. You've degraded yourself in to another Manic by deflecting hard questions when the answers don't fit your narrative. |
Right, yet you side stepped every point I posed toward you.
I've seen your posts on this forum, and they clearly slant a certain way, don't try to gaslight, a spade is a spade. I don't know you personally, so I can only go by what you post on this forum. I've seen countless posts from you supporting the Conservative party, and lambasting Trudeau and the Liberals, which is totally fine. Yet I've never seen you criticize the party you support and the extreme views and ideas coming from some of those within said party.
Am I biased? Of course I am. Why not admit your own bias?
You and Hehe continue to claim "they're doing nothing for their communities". Let me ask you a serious question, have you even bothered to research the work that's being done? Have you not seen the changes already been enacted by city councils throughout the States? Do you think change happens in a week? You do realize the bureaucracy of politics, change takes time, and these groups are most certainly enacting changes, even if you fail to recognize it.
Black mayors have been elected, officials have had to step down, various cities have opted to revamp and restructure their police forces and pass bills to address indemnified immunity, multiple bills have been passed in the House, statues have been taken down, deeper investigations have came out in Louisville regarding its city's agenda to disenfranchise black communities through police oppression (read the latest developments on Breonna Taylor for more details on this).
The above are only a few examples of changes enacted by BLM in the mere span of months here. Just because you don't look into this stuff, does not mean work isn't being done here. Read about what Michael Tubbs, the first black mayor in Stockton, and the successful changes he's made to reduce gun violence in the city (down 31% since he's taken office in 2016).
As I've said, it's rather ignorant, dismissive, and disrespectful to these people who are putting the actual work in to make these changes, while you sit behind your monitor and claim "they're doing nothing".
My observation of you is simply to understand why the subject of BLM is of such importance for you to direct your ire in written form, meanwhile ignoring bigoted issues that appear rampant within the party you seem to support. If that observation is anecdotal, then so be it, you have not shown me otherwise in terms of your consistent objection to questionable and bigoted thoughts and acts from what I would perceive to be your "side".
Show me differently.