1) the grifters - they'll just change names and victimologies to find a new racket.
2) the looters - run of the mill criminals who will find a new cover for their theft.
3) the believers - out to destroy Western capitalism using Marxism and postmodernism.
I don't know what the mix is. I doubt anyone does. Their current race-essentialist iteration MAY have jumped the shark, but none of these groups are going away.
Maybe they'll get sick of the BLM organizers stealing all the money? I've seen multiple black mothers of murdered children in the news saying BLM let them down and didn't help them in any way.
The corporations have to stop allowing themselves to be shook down for those sizable donations by BLM. Did BLM pay the protestors outside the court house where Daniel Penny's trial was going on?
I never went to protest at any trials when I was involved with a community group but when we did actions or lobbied at the state capitol, the community organizers would pay for our transportation round trip and pay for our lunch, they had snacks and water available for us, too. It was all GMO junk food with high fructose corn syrup. At the events it was greasy Spanish food or Chinese food. oh, thank you Tax Payer.
That would be a great thesis - a study on BLM groups and Community Groups, the psychology and functioning. they're parasites on the tax payers . The last conference I went to , the community organizers were talking down to the attendees and browbeating us to do their bidding....
Very true—it'll take more than a court case to get rid of those groups you mentioned. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how to stamp them out. It feels to me a little like the mythical hydra—cut off the head of one iteration and another pops up to replace it.
I think "stamp them out" is the wrong way to think about it. 2 of those 3 are basically crooks or conmen. You don't stamp those out, but you can certainly make it harder for them to ply their trade just by enforcing a culture of law and order and virtue. That's a tall order today, but I think it could be done.
The last group can't be incentivized out of existence. The groupies can be punished sufficiently (bankrupted, socially ostracized, loss of professional licenses) to alter their ways. But committed revolutionaries can not be reformed. For those people, this is a war, and they must be treated as enemy combatants: imprisoned, exiled, or executed.
I respect if that seems extreme, and I really hope the last group is small, since getting rid of a large group of revolutionaries is almost impossible -- ask Lenin. But I don't think there's another choice.
BLM really consists of 3 groups:
1) the grifters - they'll just change names and victimologies to find a new racket.
2) the looters - run of the mill criminals who will find a new cover for their theft.
3) the believers - out to destroy Western capitalism using Marxism and postmodernism.
I don't know what the mix is. I doubt anyone does. Their current race-essentialist iteration MAY have jumped the shark, but none of these groups are going away.
There's a Venn diagram for this comment somewhere in the platonic ether.
Maybe they'll get sick of the BLM organizers stealing all the money? I've seen multiple black mothers of murdered children in the news saying BLM let them down and didn't help them in any way.
The corporations have to stop allowing themselves to be shook down for those sizable donations by BLM. Did BLM pay the protestors outside the court house where Daniel Penny's trial was going on?
I never went to protest at any trials when I was involved with a community group but when we did actions or lobbied at the state capitol, the community organizers would pay for our transportation round trip and pay for our lunch, they had snacks and water available for us, too. It was all GMO junk food with high fructose corn syrup. At the events it was greasy Spanish food or Chinese food. oh, thank you Tax Payer.
That would be a great thesis - a study on BLM groups and Community Groups, the psychology and functioning. they're parasites on the tax payers . The last conference I went to , the community organizers were talking down to the attendees and browbeating us to do their bidding....
Very true—it'll take more than a court case to get rid of those groups you mentioned. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how to stamp them out. It feels to me a little like the mythical hydra—cut off the head of one iteration and another pops up to replace it.
I think "stamp them out" is the wrong way to think about it. 2 of those 3 are basically crooks or conmen. You don't stamp those out, but you can certainly make it harder for them to ply their trade just by enforcing a culture of law and order and virtue. That's a tall order today, but I think it could be done.
The last group can't be incentivized out of existence. The groupies can be punished sufficiently (bankrupted, socially ostracized, loss of professional licenses) to alter their ways. But committed revolutionaries can not be reformed. For those people, this is a war, and they must be treated as enemy combatants: imprisoned, exiled, or executed.
I respect if that seems extreme, and I really hope the last group is small, since getting rid of a large group of revolutionaries is almost impossible -- ask Lenin. But I don't think there's another choice.