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Originally Posted by markksman
What is a valid criticism of a general ideology that black people’s lives are not worth less than other people?
Well I have a few problems with BLM
1) I have no idea where the money goes, so I will never even consider donating to them until I feel their transparency meets my satisfaction
2) I don't fault them, but I think they share blame in the fact that the Black vote chose Biden over Sanders, and that preference aside, the younger voter turnout has not increased. Which may have also ended getting Sanders chosen over Biden as well
3) I thought they were more organized than Wikipedia implies. They should be more organized than Wikipedia implies (chapters in all states, a national structure of some sort...not loosely affiliated chapters wherever enough people give a ****). Their current structure gives ammo to people to call them Antifa. We should not want that. We want it to be clear who BLM is so that they specifically cannot be lumped in with Antifa and there be careless/deliberate association by detractors of all sorts
Your question about ideology isn't a meaningful question. I'm pretty sure everyone agrees all lives matter. itshot's point about not allowing criticism of BLM is valid imo. The problem is this type of characterization shouldn't be used as a blanket statement like it is similar to how Kelhus calls left leaning media, even reputable ones, as propaganda
Yes, there are lots who aren't capable of taking criticism, nor have a balanced and/or reasonable approach to taking it, but the perceived "left" are not monolithic and it would be nice if those critiquing it didn't argue as if it were
That said, there should be scrutiny. Although some scrutiny looks laughable as it is obvious some don't really know wtf they're talking about, or reveal their ignorance within their curiosity (not always necessarily a bad thing), there should be scrutiny nonetheless...