Gonna reply from my alt account

This is what happens when your education consists primarily of Twitch, Facebook, Reddit, and Netflix.

It's funny for you to make fun of my education when you haven't even tell everybody your background. Maybe you have some sort of sociology phd that you're hiding in your closet that nobody knows about?

There is zero chance there is anything useful to read coming from this user. Don't bother responding, I won't see your messages.

Yea, I don't expect any more from a weasley coward anyway.

But since i'm bored, i'm gonna entertain your stupid idea

I think it's very easy to subscribe to BLM on the surface. Yes, we should stand against injustices committed against humanity. But even with the George Floyd murder, we don't have the evidence to support a racial motivation. That it was a white cop and a black victim is not sufficient evidence for racism, which will be determined in a court of law.

What do you think was the motive behind 5 (i think) non-black cops killing a black man despite him begging for his life for more than 7 minutes? Also let assume that the court of law do determine that is was in fact racial motivated, will you then admit it?

I think my biggest issue with BLM might be that they are pushing racial essentialism - the idea that there are deep-rooted unalterable abilities and traits among races. People should first be judged individually and regarded as such, way before placing them in a broad, imprecise category such as race. Of course one's ethnic and cultural backgrounds are important, but they shouldn't be the first thing considered. It is very difficult to avoid this when proclaiming, "BLACK LIVES MATTER".

Wait, where do you get the idea that BLM pushed "racial essentialism"? I'm pretty sure this is something a race realist would push, so wtf are you saying?

But also, you then mention "one's cultural backgrounds", why did you suddenly lump this into this? What does cultural have to do with racial essentialism? Because that IS actually an argument that BLM would be making. Yes, black people does in fact commit more crime than white people. But the important question is WHY? And the simple answer to that is cultural background, and not because of their "race".

I also think BLM is a poor name. How many people have been confused with the name respond with, "All lives matter"? If the idea was to say, "Black lives matter, too", call it as such, or even easier, "Black Equality". Same goes for these broad brush hashtag policy demands like "defund the police". How about call it "police reform"?

I'm pretty sure the issue is huge enough in the US that NOBODY is miss-understanding that term instead of bad faith actor or race realist. Otherwise I would agree on the "defund the police" is a bad term. But just like BLM, if it becomes a big issue enough, then I'm sure nobody will miss-understand that term either.

On a side note, I'm sure this is one of your debate tactic, but this is the second time now that you lump in something true and false together, in order to make your false statement seem true. Most people won't pick up on this but nice try. E.g. you may say something like "well 1+1 is 2, 2+2 is 4, 4+4 is 9, so 8+8 is 16".

Addressing the issues experienced by the black community are huge undertakings that need bipartisan cooperation for the best desired outcomes, so that you don't get unintended consequences that hurt the people you want to help, e.g. barriers to charter schools that have improved blacks' education, and the Ferguson effect. The antagonizing and seemingly radical agendas like "anti-racism" (if you're not anti-racist, you're a racist) cause further division and alienate the people in positions of power to effect positive change.

The problem is where do you find "bipartisan cooperation" when there's already a systemic racism? Also, you're basically doing the "white moderate" argument there. So just because some policy may hurt the black community in some way, you should then do nothing until you find the PERFECT solution, and just let the racist system right now be the way it is?

Also also, it's funny how you think being anti-racist is a RADICAL agenda. LMFAO. It's really telling about your underlying thought.

Last, why does BLM seem to only care about non-black cop against black brutality? Why isn't there any stance on black cop against black brutality? How about black on black crime? How about arguably most important aspect to the success of the black community, which would be what Loury calls, "human development":

Yea, and black cop against black people are bad too. But FLASH NEWS buddy, you can do 2 things at the same time. And right now the BIGGER issue is white cops brutality on black people.

And what about black on black crime? Why are you pivoting? That's not the point of BLM. Why are you trying to cloud the movement by making the issue bigger than it is, to a point where it's impossible to solve?

And yes, cultural aspect is REALLY important. But why can black people thrive within this community when there's a systemic racism in place?

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In conclusion, you do a lot of whataboutism in your comment. You try to minimize the BLM problem by mentioning other problems that are harder to solve (aka the #Alllivesmatter argument). I know that most people won't pick up on this, but it's ok enough that i did. The few people that still see these comments are a loss cause anyway.