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| BLM tactics prompt questions about true aims of social justice movement |
| 2016-10-06 |
| [Wash Times] Protests over police shootings of black men. Outrage over gender bias in business and government. Panic over melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Demonstrations against the "1 percent." Racism. Sexism. Environmentalism. Classism. What's a social justice warrior to do? Protest without end, apparently. D'Artagnan Scorza, executive director and founder of the Los Angeles-based Social Justice Learning Institute, says the social justice movement aims to uplift different groups who have been staggered and stymied by the weight of historical prejudices, oppression, exclusion and other transgressions. "Social justice is an umbrella that encompasses a deeper desire for individuals and communities to see injustices made right," Mr. Scorza says. "That's really the goal." Yet the concrete, ultimate goals of the social justice movement often go unheard amid the noise and the furor of the protest of the moment, be it a rally for a new minimum wage law, calls for single-payer universal health care or demands that police release body-camera video footage of the latest shooting of an African-American. Those goals appear as varied as the progressive factions that compose the social justice movement -- often unrelated, sometimes redundant and occasionally competitive. Societal change so profound that no single policy or set of policies could address or deliver seems to be movement's endpoint, and success a distant speck of possibility on a far-off horizon. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Proponents are mostly just naive - useful idiots. In fact BLM hurts 1) black cops, 2) black victims of black criminals (by making them hesitate to intervene), and 3) even black criminals (by making police more nervous in confrontations.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-10-06 14:55 |
| #8 BLM are modern brownshirts. Like the SA they will be discarded when inconvenient. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-06 09:38 |
| #7 How about "Power". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-06 09:11 |
| #6 Ask Soros what the true aims of BLM are, he's bankrolling the BLM |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-06 08:06 |
| #5 Power, money and dispensation to torment anyone you don't like without consequence. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-10-06 07:22 |
| #4 One word. "Extortion." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-06 06:46 |
| #3 aims? in two words: "Pay Me!" As it has always been, so it shall always be: There are those who will willingly starve to death before doing a day of honest work. Such souls need to be purged on a regular basis when they self identify. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2016-10-06 05:50 |
| #2 Jamie Foxx is in Venezuela to show his support for the socialist movement, where everyone is eating their pets to stay alive by the way... |
| Posted by: Elminerong Darling of the Esquimeaux5180 2016-10-06 05:19 |
| #1 Personal advancement for activists. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-06 03:36 |