Someone The Omnivore knows isn't voting for Biden (but not Trump) because Biden supports the Marxism of BLM. It is true that one of the prime reasons that Trump can't have The Omnivore's vote is because of his cheering section in the Nazi party--and the leaders of the Organization of BLM are, in fact, Marxist students . . . what's the difference?
Every Freakin' Thing
Huh? What?
You Heard The Omnivore: Your Facebook Feed Told You A Lie! Join The Space Force And Learn To Fly!
In the Army there's a marching cadence where your recruiter told you a lie--that you'd have a great job in the military--but now you're on the literal shit-burning detail of cleaning latrine trenches which is actually worse than it sounds (and is utterly lteral). It's funny. Unless you're tired of marching--then it's kind of smugly sneering.
In this case the joke is on you: you were told by social media how Marxist the BLM movement is and like the sad-sack burning human waste in a giant reeking cloud, you are now trying to figure out how protesting police violence is marxist while enveloped in a stinky cloud of lying Facebook memes.
In this case? the lie is that the BLM protests are marxist anything.
Let's do this in two parts.
- Why Is This a Total Ass Pants On Fire Lie?
- Why'd you gobble it up like breakfast cereal?
1. Why Is This A Lie?
You're a savvy Internet person. You know what's what. You understand the meems and the hashtags and all that--you're not a lamb to the slaughter . . . so why is Fox News wearing your wool coat and eating your tasty leg-shank?
It's because of this: There IS a Black Lives Matter organization--it IS run by some people with literal Marxist credentials.
It's almost completely irrelevant to the protests going on around the country. BLM begin life as a slogan that was put together carefully on twitter: "society is acting like black lives don't mean shit and we are going to stand up and attest that black lives do, in fact, matter."
It was the right message--at the right problem--but like gamers who got upset about a game about killing Nazis because they decided it was anti-right-wing (this is called telling on yourself) a LOT of people decided that just like we need a Children's Day to balance the oppression of Mother's Day and Father's Day, we need an All Lives Matter Movement.
Every Day Is Children's Day, Honey.
And because a splinter group of the original hash-tag coalition moved off and started an organization the right-wing decided to tar the existing movement--which had little to do with the leaders with this sub-set of people's Marxist training.
(Never Mind that BLM isn't explicitly a Marxist Movement--it's focused on like, body cameras and accountability for state action--kinda the opposite of Marxist Communism--but The Omnivore honestly doesn't blame you for getting caught up in a complex ideological web when neon buzzwords are dominating everything).
No--BLM the org is irrelevant to BLM the movement.
How can The Omnivore say that with a certainty? Oh--well, that's easy.
- BLM has 40 chapters around the globe. That's a LOT. Right? Uh. No. there have been BLM protests in all 50 states and many more countries. The Organizers range from home grown community activists to local wanna be social media celebrities. Most of these are NOT connected to the "BLM Org in any way." Sorry.
- BLM, The Org Provides Some Support for Local Chapters. They aren't doing leadership activities. The BLM march organizers aren't taking orders or anything from the top. They aren't coordinating. These are locally organized groups that put their actions togher. Even if a BLM.org chapter is involved in some way? They aren't in charge. Sorry.
- Some of the key original personalities (Deray) aren't in the BLM.org. Arguably one of the most important people in getting the "hey, our lives DO matter" effort off the ground isn't part of the BLM.org group--and so historically there's a disconnect. Sorry.
- BLM.org isn't the only player. People taking legitimate donations for BLM include the ACLU, the NAACP legal defense fund, and Campaign Zero (dedicated to being against police violence).
No, BLM is a sentiment--a hashtag--an idea--and a movement. The same way that a single church can't lay claim to Christianity and then sully its ideas through a bunch of add-on wierdo beliefs, the BLM idea isn't tied to the BLM organization either in theory--or, very, very important, in practice.
Most of those people marching out there have NO TIE at all to the BLM.org website and the BLM.org marxist organizers (who, as noted, are not doing anything especially marxist here anyway).
So Why'd You Buy This?
The first part isn't your fault--the conflation is easy to make since most outlets don't speak cleanly about the distinctions--or, indeed, even acknowledge the differences. To them, BLM is a bunch of protesters and a few riots. The idea of the command structure is not even on the media's radar.
But there's a second reason--and this one is kinda your fault. You see, Black People Marching--especially if there is a clash with police and double especially if there is a riot or looting--is something that needs to be condemned and if The Omnivore hears Marxism is involved? Well, we know that the proletariat rising up with some blood on the streets is part of the Karl-Method so that kinda makes sense, right?
Wrong-o. The problem here is that we want the cops to be decent stand-ins for the The Good Guys and more and more as the evidence piles up, it looks like they ain't. The Police are trying to protect their franchise--that means, having unions that protect them like lawsuit-proof vest and legal-shields. This means that while there might be a few "bad apples" the "good apples" cover up for them.
Hint: A good apple covering up for a bad apple is part of the bunch that has been spoiled.
But if you start admitting that to yourself you, like Alice and the Rabbit Hole, fall down a deep trench that, at the bottom, has some very uncomfortable truths. Such as: if Good Cops--of which we agree there are many (in theory) will stand by while a Bad Cop murders a man on camera for nine minutes--then we have a problem that goes beyond Bad Apples and you gotta do something about the System.
That sits uncomfortably. The Omnivore knows.
No one said this would be easy.
It also doesn't help that you can easily read leftist rhetoric as literal but right wing stuff as symbolic and through a pretzel of gymnastic mental logic make "reasonable decisions" that are bullshit.
The Omnivore will help:
Defund The Police means (a) stop buying them paramilitary weapons, (b) divert some of their funding to other forms of community service that are more effective at dealing with things like drug abuse and domestic violence, (c) remove some chain of command that has done the equivalent of the Roman Catholic church hiding pedophiles because it'll make them look bad--but with bad cops.
Because we all know that looking bad is the worst thing ever.
Defund The Police does not mean "Somalia in a can".
But that's what you "reasonably" decided it meant. Right? Mistake anyone could make? Yeah.
So Where Does This Leave Us?
Here are some pictures of a BLM march in Dallas. If you hate Marxism you should be repulsed by these pictures. You're a red blooded American aren't you? Don't they sicken you?
If you were SHOCKED, The Omnivore is sorry. Sometimes you need to see the bitter truth. If we aren't careful to keep fixating on the Marxism at the tippy top of an organization that isn't even relevant to this, we might see more of this.
Can't have that, right? Be Alert, Citizen. Be Vigilant. Behave.
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