BLM is claiming the nuclear family is bad. Fine. If you agree with them then best of luck. I came from a whole school system where it worked nicely. Nobody dropped out. School was like a vacation compared to adult life.
But BLM obviously has issues with it. They’re free to raise their children any way they feel. Blaming the nuclear family is nothing but an excuse.
How does that advance their cause? Every person you mentioned just moves on to another cushy job.
The rise in homicides on the other hand is the exact opposite of their goal.
No, they’re not, as you could see if you actually read that quote from their website that’s been re-quoted for your convenience like three or four times now.
They are claiming that “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement” is bad.
In other words, BLM is not saying anything whatsoever against nuclear families. What they are saying is that it’s bad to require that family structure has to be nuclear for everybody.
I really don’t know how to explain this to you more clearly. It seems like a pretty straightforward distinction to grasp and I don’t see any other posters having trouble with it, but it’s been over two pages now and you’re still not getting it.
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I came from a whole school system where it worked nicely. […] School was like a vacation compared to adult life.
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I can well believe it. While I sympathize with your subsequent struggles in adapting to the more onerous cognitive demands of adulthood, I think your parents probably bear some of the responsibility for not sending you to a school that would actually teach you to read for comprehension.
Still, good on them for successfully maintaining that nuclear family, though! Credit where it’s due, and all that.
Wow. Really, just wow.
Yes, Magiver, it’s bizarre but it’s the sort of thing you have to get used to on the SDMB.
BLM has made its demands. You aren’t supposed to ask if they make sense - that’s white privilege. Just shut up, confess your racism, and hand over the money for the free tuition and financial advisors for illegal aliens, revise the speech codes so no one is allowed to disagree with whatever BLM says, rearrange the welfare system so unwed parents live a comfortable middle-class life, indite Darren Wilson for murder, and everything will be fine.
Forget it, Jake - it’s Chinatown.
Regards,
Shodan
I share your concern and disdain for this fantasy-version of BLM. Down with fantasy-BLM! Down with fantasy-BLM!
This wasn’t a random claim and the numbers are up. No amount of statistical game playing changes the actual and dramatic rise in homicides. FBI Director James Comey discussing Ferguson effect.
The Baltimore Chief of Police was fired over it.
If I made the claim that sharp rise in black homicides was meaningless statistical hogwash the vitriol that flowed in response would be substantial.
What fantasy version did you think you were talking about?
Cite.
Cite.
Etc. I won’t bother with citing the rest.
Regards,
Shodan
I thought you were talking about the fantasy-version of BLM, that demands everyone “Just shut up, confess your racism, and hand over the money for the free tuition and financial advisors for illegal aliens, revise the speech codes so no one is allowed to disagree with whatever BLM says, rearrange the welfare system so unwed parents live a comfortable middle-class life, indite Darren Wilson for murder, and everything will be fine”?
If you’re just switching back and forth between real-world and fantasy versions of BLM, it’d be helpful for you to label which posts, or which sentences (or even which phrases!) are dealing with which. Maybe use a different font? Thanks!
That’s mostly why I realized I didn’t need to bother with cites.
Regards,
Shodan
You can use fantasy-cites for your claims about the fantasy-BLM, and real cites for claims about the real BLM. Success! 
yes, BLM has made it’s demands. They’ve shut down markets and intimidated police. And the police have responded with the only thing that makes sense and that’s to stand back and watch it all burn to the ground. How many officers have been shot this year? 34. Nobody marching and shutting down businesses for them. How many were shot in cold blood? Did Ricardo Galvez make the news when a group of 3 walked up to him in his car and started shooting?
Make no mistake, there is no law on the books that says they need to flush out drug dealers or thieves or any other criminal. They can just as easily drive around listening to tunes for 8 hrs waiting on the next call to fill out paperwork on a corpse. If a 5 year dies in the crossfire it’s just another sheet of paper to fill out.
So South Park had it right - we as a society have to make a deal, where the police are allowed to brutalize minorities in exchange for doing their jobs, because that’s why they became police in the first place? Sobering stuff, there.
Legion of Black Collegians and Next Yale. Neither article says a word about BLM.
:rolleyes: What’s sobering is the lack of parenting and disregard for education.
34 officers died this year alone yet the focus is on a handful of cases that are already going to court.
There is no law that says police have to do their actual jobs? They cam just drive around and listen to music for 8 hours instead? I went into the wrong field, clearly.
In how many of those 34 cases is the identity and whereabouts of the person who pulled the trigger known, yet no charges have been filed?
When a man (black or white) shoots a cop, he gets shot, life in prison, or a death sentence. When a cop shoots a black man, he gets a paid vacation.
Yet somehow you translate this into a lack of concern of slain police officers.
So you’re saying you really don’t understand the difference between attacking nuclear families and objecting to a requirement that families have to be nuclear?
Do you also not understand, for example, the difference between attacking churchgoers and attacking the presumption that good people have to be churchgoers?
Because that’s the level of cluelessness you’re projecting here.
People who murder police officers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Some states, like New York, even have separate statutes for the crime of killing a police officer.
Police officers who murder people, on the other hand? It’s a mixed bag. Sometimes they’re prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, sometimes the DA takes a dive due to the inherent conflict of interest in prosecuting people her or she relies on to do their job, sometimes charges are never filed. When they are, juries are reluctant to actually convict, possibly related to the DA conflict, possibly because they value police officers more than black people.
Or possibly because their guilt has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, under the same standard applied when someone murders a police officer.
Regards,
Shodan