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[–]Trajan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Definitely ‘colonialist’. Take Latinx as an example. Practically nobody in Latin America identifies by this, and most have never even heard of this. It’s a nonsense effort by whites and Latinos who commonly don’t even speak Spanish and are gringos in all but surname. Same deal with BLM and the UK, imagining that all blacks everywhere have the same issues and history as black criminals in the US.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are huge differences between Blacks in the US, let alone around the world. A Southern Black is fundamentally different from a Northern one, and the same goes for urban and rural Blacks. Furthermore, there's a major divide in class.

It's hard to argue that a wealthy, urban, Northern Black is facing the same issues as a working-class, rural, Southern Black — but that's what the left is arguing.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

imagining that all blacks everywhere have the same issues ... as black criminals in the US.

This one's kind of true though.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I was thinking more of the specific BLM cause du jour of blacks supposedly being executed by the police. Normal black people in the UK certainly aren't getting shot by police, and even black criminals in the UK are no more likely than white criminals to end up being injured when fighting police.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

even black criminals in the UK are no more likely than white criminals to end up being injured when fighting police.

This is also true for the US. America does have a particular problem with police brutality, but it's not racial.

For any country where black people are a minority, even those without a history of slavery, blacks are three-to-four times overrepresented within prison populations, though there is no reason to believe that this is the result of discrimination.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've had this conspiracy that BLM is a psyop carried out by the US government and the media to change the focus away from how they're taking our rights away and towards race.

They want the issue to be racist police, not abusive police. They want the issue to be white supremacy, not gun control. They want the issue to be Fascism, not Communism.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. We should have open conversation on this and research into causes and possible solutions.