Overnight, Antifa defaced Ulysses S. Grant High School in Portland in a direct action. “Stop honoring Nazi colonizers”. Grant was the general who led the Union Army in the Civil War.

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[–][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.

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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.

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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.