RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 13, 2017 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2017 at 1:04 pm by Mr.wizard.)
(August 13, 2017 at 12:59 pm)A Theist Wrote:(August 13, 2017 at 12:28 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: But those situations are not this situation, the violence in those protests has been called out and Trump has had no problem calling out "Black Lives Matter". The difference in this situation is he had the opportunity to call out known hate groups and condemn their actions , instead he he tried to make it seem like it was everybody was being equally violent, which isn't the case.
Also Black Lives Matter is not a hate group, the movement isn't about violence, supremacy, and segregation, it is about addressing policy issues that impact the black community. Have there been some violent protesters, yes and they are wrong, but trying to equate the motivations of Black Lives Matter and a group like the KKK is just idiotic.
BLM has no organized leadership, no centralized headquarters, and no established manifesto. So how do you know what BLM is or isn't? What we know of BLM are videos of their protests chanting "Pigs in a blanket! Fry'em like bacon!" and "What do we want? Dead Cops!" As far as I can see, what has been witnessed by news videos, is that BLM is a hate movement that advocates violence against police officers....and the movement should be condemned for that.
Go to their website blacklivesmatter.com and you can read what the movement is about and yes they do have a manifesto and nowhere in it does it say "dead police".
