Black Lives Matter
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I've got a facebook friend shouting loudly about how the whole world (i.e., Mercator projection) is racist and we have to do something how we in power created maps, on purpose, to center white in power.
After pointing out that it was developed to make maritime navigation easier, I've now been pointed to the following source, which proves - clearly - that the intention was racist.
I'm a bit speechless, as I agreed with the contention that it's a good idea to point out the problems with it's use, but apparently I have to also agree that the intentions of the Dutch mathematicians in the 16th century were to put black lives down. Or, I guess, I'm a racist?
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@canefan said in Black Lives Matter:
@gt12 I don't know where it will lead, but shit's getting out of hand
For a bit of fun go into google a do a search for:
"Is (insert anything here) racist?"
The results are pretty stunning. I will never look at Milk, sweet potatoes, Mondays, weather etc the same way again.
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@canefan said in Black Lives Matter:
NASCAR's one black driver asked if they could cease to display the Confederate flag at NASCAR events, which they agreed to. 10 days later he finds a noose in his garage stall. Crazy
A nice gesture of solidarity by Nascar.
Will be interesting if anything else comes from this. There's been a fair few 'fake noose' incidents in recent history. Hopefully there is some evidence as to where it came from so the perpetrators can be found.
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@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:
Just came out
The bigotry of low expectations is designed to disenfranchise . Then you look to your saviour and you have a choice of a race hustler or a bloke that looks like a plantation owner...
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@antipodean
There's no "saviour".
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@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean
There's no "saviour".
You have to helpyourselfeach other.FIFY
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@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean
There's no "saviour".
You have to helpyourselfeach other.FIFY
Totally agree !!!
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As an indication to the scale of the problem:
14 people including 5 children killed, more than 100 shot in Chicago over Father's Day weekend
the city's highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year
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@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:
As an indication to the scale of the problem:
14 people including 5 children killed, more than 100 shot in Chicago over Father's Day weekend
the city's highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year
There was a pretty emotional interview with one of the police sergeants last weekend, media were asking him George Flloyd related questions and he was nearly in tears talking about how they now have less people available to attend problems and he was now just enroute to attend to 2 children who'd been caught up in a multiple homicide.
Black lives matter doesn't give a damn about black lives.
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Sums up about where a lot of folk are starting to sit with this
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Burnley FC promising lifetime bans for fans who flew a "white lives matter" banner. WTAF.
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So why can't all of this be important and worthy of focus? Creating change in and around policing and related policy to improve outcomes for groups over-represented in shitty police treatment (acknowledging the relationship with higher rates of crime) seems to be something that can gain more traction, more swiftly than the bigger underlying issues around Black on Black violence. The latter is deeply related to all sorts of socio economic stuff which will need (imo) a much longer term focus to effect change. Just because one specific issue has been focused on doesn't mean the other shitty stuff doesn't need action or attention.
Just seems to be a constant criticism of BLM that they aren't doing everything all at the same time. Or that they should focus on Black on Black violence first then focus on other stuff.
Don't get me wrong, there is a shitload of stuff going on in and around BLM and associated 'woke' politics that I think is batshit insane. But diminishing the value or relevance (or whatever) of the current goal to improve treatment and accountability by police (again in the general sense, obviously not all cops are racist fuckheads) is something worth pursuing imo.
The stuff that has been changing around bodycam requirements, the oversight processes, and a bunch of other policy stuff will absolutely improve treatment for all groups, but particularly Black Americans. That all happened pretty bloody quickly once the wider population caught on to the culture, lack of training, militarisation, etc, etc that has let this sort of behaviour manifest.
I just can't see a similar focus and effort around Black on Black violence having anywhere as positive movement (boom tish) in the same period of time.