How do you respond to this false equivalency: BLM is a hate group just like the KKK

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Apparently my neighbor feels that African Americans engaged in protest against being shot by cops is just like a group that has engaged in systematic violence and murder for over 150 years.

[uponit7771]

1. BLM not on splc list or rolleyes

[lonestarnot]

9. What list? What is that?

[Action_Patrol]

11. Southern Poverty Law Center

Experts in tracking hate groups

[lonestarnot]

12. Sorry, put my specs on I see it is an L

[gratuitous]

3. Tell them you'll accept that equivalency when . . .

When BLM starts lynching white people, you'll accept its equivalency with the Klan. When those lynchings aren't even investigated, let alone prosecuted, by the local authorities, then the equivalency argument might gain some traction. When BLM burns crosses on people's lawns, they'll match the Klan for odious behavior. When those burned crosses don't draw any attention from the sheriff, then BLM has achieved Klan status.

You could go on and on, but really, the point is that your neighbor doesn't want to know anything.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

4. No, but I like your thought process

Thanks!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

16. Thanks, you saved me having to type all that.

Just what I was thinking. Good heavens, how is that not obvious to anyone who knows anything about both groups?

[Zoonart]

5. Off the top of my head

BLM is out to end the hate and educate, unlike like KKK who spread the hate to intimidate,
a protest, not a rope fest,
a righteous cross and not a burning one.
Dedicated to keeping black men, women and children alive and not killing them... just to name a few.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

14. But,but,but...they hate the police

...and they riot.

Of course, conservatives hate the FBI and other law enforcement when it suits them, and had no issue with armed hoodlums occupying a wildlife refuge.

[Zoonart]

15. BLIND racism

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

[uppityperson]

6. BLM protests violence against poc, KKK promotes violence against poc

[kimbutgar]

7. Ask him did any BLM string people up and lynch them like the kkk?

[Orrex]

8. One major difference is that Republicans don't court the BLM vote

Another major difference is that the KKK has at its foundation a tradition of murder and torture of black people, while BLM hopes to end the torture and murder of black people.


The differences abound.

[etherealtruth]

10. You are not likely to convince someone like this otherwise ....

Since you have to live in proximity to them responding: You are a jack ass, is probably out

you could point out one group is fighting for their human/ civil rights (BLM) and the other group is fighting to try to take away another group's civil/ human rights (KKK) ... but, I doubt you will make any headway with someone that would make that connection in the first place.

[Act_of_Reparation]

13. Mockery.

You aren't going to reason them out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. You can make them feel bad, though.

When life gives you lemons, throw them at someone.

[Taitertots]

17. They are both race based groups that use violence for political gains

"Engaged in protest"
You're using inaccurate language. In the last year we've seen BLM race riots, targeted racial violence, violence against drivers, violence against the police....

Replace "engaged in protest" with an equally accurate statement like "burned their neighbors businesses" or "attacked innocent people" and you'll understand why people think differently from you.

[Greybnk48]

18. How many powerless minorities has BLM lynched? Or burned alive,

Or raped, or shot or sicked attack dogs on? Or burned their houses down, or blocked the doors to their schools? What a stupid comparison this is. The KKK is not JUST a hate group, it has a long, well documented history of murdering innocent people.

[Iggo]

19. "Bull-fucking-shit, sir."

[geek tragedy]

21. stop talking to the pathological ignoramus nt

[mrmpa]

22. BLM wants solutions............

the KKK does not

[a la izquierda]

23. Fuck that noise?

I mean, that's what immediately comes to my mind.