Need help on BLM discussion.

[leftyladyfrommo]

KCMO painted 6 BLM murals on city streets. They were designed by artists and they are really nice.

So that started a neighborhood argument. It's a predominantly white neighborhood.

These people can't admit they are racist so they came up with BLM is a Marxist organization.

I can't see how this works. How does wanting equality equal Marxism? Anyone understand this?

[RiverbendsJoe]

1. White Fragility.

https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116

[Maeve]

2. First, make them define Marxism

After having a good laugh at the attempt, ask how that possibly relates to BLM

OK, none of the fact-checks I usually use have debunked this one because it hasn't been made by anyone serious enough to matter. Anything that is alien to some types must be "un-American" and "Marxist" because they have no real political vocabulary

[Jim__]

3. Here's what Politifact has to say

From Politifact

...

In a recently surfaced 2015 interview, one of the three Black Lives Matter co-founders declared that she and another co-founder "are trained Marxists."

But the movement has grown and broadened dramatically. Many Americans, few of whom would identify as Marxists, support Black Lives Matter, drawn to its message of anti-racism.

"Regardless of whatever the professed politics of people may be who are prominent in the movement, they don’t represent its breadth," said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University African American Studies professor and author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation."

"There are definitely socialists within the movement, as there have been in every single social movement in 20th century American history and today. But that does not make those socialist movements, it makes them mass movements," she said.

a lot more ...

[Maeve]

4. Damn, the one I didn't check! Good find!

[crickets]

6. Interesting. Thanks for that. nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Thank you