July 20, 2021
Dear Friends and Family,
This segment is the last of the Nihilism series and is titled Protests and Riots. I chose to end the series with this topic because the presence of nihilism has “rubbed resentment raw’ for many in our country, evidenced by the reaction to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. By July 3, two-hundred-cities imposed curfews to quell the mayhem, more than thirty states had activated some 62,000 National Guard personnel to help restore order, some 14,000 protestors and rioters had been arrested in forty-nine different cities, and untold looting and property damage occurred. It is estimated that somewhere between 15 and 26 million people had participated which prompted The New York Times to run a headline that read “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.”
My Takeaways from this segment:
Note: There is a second PDF added at the end of this segment which contains the Traditional and Social Justice views on American History, American Philosophy, and American Culture that was posited in segment 1. I thought you might want to reflect on them.
Next: One of the things I do as a series progresses, is look for new books that may provide some additional perspective to the series. I preordered such a book that I received late last week. I have read it, summarized it, and put into segment form. The book is American Marxism by Mark R. Levin. It is listed as a PostScript to the Series.
Happy Learning,
Harley
Dear Friends and Family,
This segment is the last of the Nihilism series and is titled Protests and Riots. I chose to end the series with this topic because the presence of nihilism has “rubbed resentment raw’ for many in our country, evidenced by the reaction to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. By July 3, two-hundred-cities imposed curfews to quell the mayhem, more than thirty states had activated some 62,000 National Guard personnel to help restore order, some 14,000 protestors and rioters had been arrested in forty-nine different cities, and untold looting and property damage occurred. It is estimated that somewhere between 15 and 26 million people had participated which prompted The New York Times to run a headline that read “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.”
My Takeaways from this segment:
- A Peaceful Protest View of the Black Lives Matter movement defines their objective as calling on America to acknowledge that blacks are worthy of respect that whites take for granted, a question that blacks have been asking for more than 150 years that is yet to be answered.
- An Anarchy View is that the Black Lives Matter movement is an openly and proudly Marxist movement with an objective to thoroughly discredit the United States as a detestable and irredeemable nation where black people are “collectively” subjected to “inhumane conditions” in a “white supremacy system” that was originally “built on indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.” A movement that embraces nihilism, rejects the traditional nuclear family, and is highly anti-Semitic. It is an organization that utilizes Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals wherein the enemy is to be portrayed as the very personification of evil and against whom the use of any and all tactics is fair game. The first step is to “rub raw the resentment of the people.”
- Antifa, as practiced in America, are anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists who advocate global expropriation of the capitalist ruling class and the destruction (or capture) of all existing states by means of international popular uprising.
- Net, both Black Lives Matter and Antifa could very well be the quasi-independent military wing of the socialist movement in the United States as alleged in segment 23.
Note: There is a second PDF added at the end of this segment which contains the Traditional and Social Justice views on American History, American Philosophy, and American Culture that was posited in segment 1. I thought you might want to reflect on them.
Next: One of the things I do as a series progresses, is look for new books that may provide some additional perspective to the series. I preordered such a book that I received late last week. I have read it, summarized it, and put into segment form. The book is American Marxism by Mark R. Levin. It is listed as a PostScript to the Series.
Happy Learning,
Harley
NIHILISM: GOOD OR BAD – SEGMENT 23
PROTESTS AND RIOTS – EXCERPTS
BLACK LIVES MATTER: A PEACEFUL PROTEST VIEW: It came as no surprise to some in America when, in the summer of 2013, George Zimmerman was found not guilty on all charges related to Trayvon Martin’s death. It was at that moment that Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi made history and created #BlackLivesMatter. Today #BlackLivesMatter has become a force demanding change in America. Eschewing traditional hierarchical leadership models, the movement cannot be identified with any single leader or small group leaders, despite the role of Cullors, Tometi and Garza played in giving us the social movement hashtag that will likely define our generation. #BlackLivesMatter is akin to a social movement brand that can be picked up and deployed by any interested group of activists inclined to speak out and act against racial injustice. Resentment against white supremacy and contemporary white privilege is easy to understand given how systems of racial ignorance continuously work to undermine black flourishing.
Present-day activist and intellectuals supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement have extended the call for Americans to acknowledge the very basic idea that blacks are worthy of a respect that whites take for granted. Thus, when activists incant “black live matter” they are in fact, asking a great deal of white politicians and white voters. Specifically, they are campaigning for whites to see blacks for the persons they are and as deserving the inviolable rights embodied in personhood. The movement and its supporters – black and white – have done, I think what can be done to respond clearly to the criticism that activist should celebrate that all lives matter. The use of “black” as a predicate of the moral mandate the slogan represents is not meant to suggest that black lives matter more than others. Rather, it claims that in point of fact, across American history, black lives have not mattered very much but are nevertheless morally owed equal standing, so the polity must be reminded of the basic fact that instead of not mattering, black lives do matter. Blacks left lying in the streets by the police, is all the more reason for black Americans to take absolute possession of their humanity in the course of asking others to recognize the worth of their humanity.
Indeed, as I look upon what feels like the unending trend of police violence against blacks, the stubborn forms of material inequality that themselves stunt the life chances of black adults and children, it can sometimes seem that now in the 21st century the future to my innocent past is shaping up to resemble some of the worst of the vision of what ignorance and hubris bring to human society. The inability to embrace each other as having sacred lives worth every effort to hone and protect enable the vices of selfishness and hatred. On that winter day in 2012 when Trayvon Martin was unjustifiably killed by George Zimmerman, a chain of events was set off that defines our present. Martin was by far not the first unarmed black person to be killed with impunity in America. But in the course of events, three women decided that not one more black person’s life would be taken without America being forced to answer the question that black intellectuals have been asking for more than one-and-a-half centuries: do black lives in America matter or not? We still wait for America’s response. But the question has been asked, the conversation is being demanded, and there are yet other futures to be written if we so will it.
Source: The Making of Black Lives Matter: a Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron (2017).
BLACK LIVES MATTER: AN ANARCHY VIEW: When BLM was established in 2013, its stated objective was to galvanize a protest movement in response to the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, a so called “white Hispanic” man who was tried for murder and manslaughter after he had shot and killed a black Florida teenager named Trayvon Martin.
An Openly and Proudly Marxist Movement: BLM’s larger objective went far beyond matters of interracial violence and police conduct. Its overarching mission was to thoroughly discredit the United States as a detestable and irredeemable nation where black people are “collectively” subjected to “inhumane conditions” in a “white supremacist system” that was originally “built on indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.” One of BLM’s three founders, Patrisse Cullors, openly acknowledged BLM’s subversive objectives, “We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia Garza are trained organizers and are trained Marxists.” BLM’s pro-Marxist orientation was articulated with great passion at a BLM protest in 2016, when Cornell University’s Russell Rickford declared: “We’ve got to build a grassroots antiracist movement to defeat capitalism altogether, and it’s not going to happen at the ballot box. There can be no human system under capitalism. Capitalism is an anti-human system.” BLM is closely allied with numerous groups that are fronts for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist entity that advocates the overthrow of capitalism.
Rejecting the Traditional Nuclear Family: In a document titled “What We Believe,” BLM candidly affirms its preference for identity politics based on race: “We see ourselves as part of the global Black family.” BLM also proclaims its desire to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement” and replace it with the socialist ideal of “Villages: serving as: extended families” that “collectively care for one another.”
BLM’s False Claims About the Police and White-on-Black Crime: BLM claims that blacks in the U.S. today are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes.” And although this claim has been widely and passionately echoed by supporters of BLM, it is in fact a monstrous lie, as has been demonstrated consistently by decades of hard empirical evidence.
Saul Alinsky’s Influence on BLM: At a BLM conference in Cleveland on July 24, 2015, members were instructed in the tactics and philosophy of the late Saul Alinsky. Alinsky was a communist fellow traveler who laid out a set of basic strategies designed to help leftist radicals destroy their enemies and transform society into a socialist paradise. If such radicals were to be successful in remaking society, said Alinsky, they “must first rub raw the resentments of the people” by identifying a particular “personification” of evil and “publicly attack” it as a “dangerous enemy” of all that is decent. The chief “personification” in BLM’s crosshairs today is the white police officer. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” Alinsky taught, asserting that the primary task of the radicals is to cultivate, in people’s hearts a visceral revulsion to the mere sight of the target’s face. Alinsky taught that in order to cast themselves as noble defenders of high moral principles, radical activists should take pains to reach dramatically – with greatly exaggerated displays of “chock, horror, and moral outrage” – whenever their targeted enemy errs, or can be depicted as having erred, in any way at all. BLM chooses to magnify – with choreographed indignation – the significance of a tiny handful or questionable cases, and to characterize those as emblems of supposedly widespread police misconduct. Alinsky advised radical activists to avoid the temptation to concede that their opponents are not “100% devil.” That is why we never hear BLM praising the police for anything. Instead, it is 100% attack, 100% of the time, against a 100% devil.
Given that the enemy is to be portrayed as the very personification of evil – against whom the use of any and all tactics is fair game – Alinsky taught that an effective radical activist should never give the appearance of being satisfied with any compromise proposed by the opposition. After all, any bargain with the “devil” is, by definition, morally tainted. The ultimate goal, said Alinsky, is not to arrive at peaceful coexistence, but rather, to completely “crush the opposition” by remaining vigilantly “dedicated to eternal war.” When you have war, it means that neither side can agree on anything. Alinsky also exhorted radical activists to be entirely unpredictable willing – for sake of their crusade – to plunge society at large into chaos and anarchy. “The threat,” he added “is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
The Deadly Consequences of BLM’s Rhetoric: Almost any police shooting of a black person, no matter how threatening the behavior that provoked the shooting, now provokes angry protests. Acquittals of police officers for the use of deadly force against black suspects are now automatically presented as a miscarriage of justice. In a January 2017 Pew Research Center report, it found that 85 to 95 percent of law-enforcement officers in large police departments had become highly reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary and had become increasingly concerned about their own person safety.
Influencing America’s Public Schools: Since 2019, Black Lives Matter at School Week” was being observed by thousands of educators in public schools across the U.S. Even very young schoolchildren are targeted with BLM propaganda in many classrooms. An early childhood teacher’s guide, for instance, emphasizes the importance of using “age-appropriate language” to help youngsters understand various concepts that are central to BLM’s philosophy.
Funding for BLM: Since 2016, Black Lives Matter has been a fiscally sponsored project of Thousand Currents, a left-wing, California based 501c(3) nonprofit organization. The governing board of Thousand Currents includes Susan Rosenberg, who in the 1970s and 80s was a Marxist terrorist. By no means does Thousand Currents represent the only avenue by which donors can support BLM. When people seek to contribute money to the movement via the BLM website, they are transported to the web page of ActBlue Charities, an organization that facilitates donations to “democrats and progressives.” As of May 21, 2020, ActBlue had given $119 million to the presidential campaign of Joe Biden.
BLM and the George Floyd Riots and Protests: In the aftermath of the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many cities were overrun by violent riots in which supporters of BLM and Antifa played a major role. By June, at least 200 cities had imposed nightmare curfews in an effort to quell the mayhem, while more than 30 states had activated some 62,000 National Guard personnel to help restore order. By June 30, at least 14,000 protestors and rioters in 49 separate cities had been arrested. Many of them had attempted to desecrate and/or topple a wide array of federal monuments, memorials, and statues. It is estimated that as of July 3, somewhere between 15 and 26 million people had participated in various demonstrations from coast to coast, prompting The New York Times to run a headline that read: “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.”
Conclusion: Black Lives Matter’s name is a carefully crafted deception designed to draw attention away from the fact that BLM is a hardcore Marxist movement whose overriding mission is to raze American society and its traditions to the ground, and to erect a Communist utopia upon the ruins. Toward that end, BLM works tirelessly to discredit the United States as an irredeemable racist wasteland founded upon nothing but slavery, genocide, and all manners of oppression.
The anti-police rhetoric and violent activities have had devastating consequences for black Americans as a whole. The only black lives that matter to BLM, are the infinitesimally small number that are ended by the actions of white people, particularly white police officers. Meanwhile, the thousands of blacks whose lives are terminated by black killers each and every year are never mentioned by BLM – no matter how brutally, mercilessly, or senselessly those lives may have been snuffed out. It is indeed a tragedy that a movement so evil and so ruinous has been able, with the help of a compliant mainstream news media, to dupe million of Americans into embracing it as a crusade for “racial justice.” In reality, BLM is the very embodiment of Marxism, anti-Semitism, and racism – a trifecta of wickedness capable of destroying any society.
Source: Black Lives Matter: Marxist Hate Dressed Up as Racial Justice by John Perazzo (2020).
Black Lives Matter has become an ally of cancel culture in that anyone who challenges the concept risks cancellation. People have been cancelled for saying or tweeting “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter.” It is a tragedy that the Black Lives Matter organization has moved away from its central mission and has declared war against the nation-state of the Jewish people. In its “platform” more than sixty groups that form the core of the BLM movement went out of their way to single out one foreign nation to accuse of genocide and apartheid.
I also write in fear, because the Black Lives Matter organization has become so powerful, pervasive, influential, I fear that anything it says in its platform may come to be believed by many of its supporters, and if the genocide lies came to be believed by large numbers of decent, but naïve people, it could endanger Israel, Zionists, and Jews. Black Lives Matter should cancel the portions of the platform that falsely accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid. If it does not it risks ending in the dustbin of history, along with other discredited bigoted groups.
Source: Cancel Culture by Alan Dershowitz (2020)
ANTIFA: What is Anti-Fascism (Antifa)?: Anti-Fascism is an illiberal politics of social revolution applied to fighting the Far Right, not only literal fascists. At the core of this complex process of opinion-making is the construction of societal taboos against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression that constitute the bedrock of fascism. Finally, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that anti-fascism has always been just one facet of a larger struggle against white supremacy and authoritarianism. A number of socialist traditions coexist under this umbrella. Since the establishment of U.S. Antifa (ARA), most American antifa have been anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists. They seek to abolish prisons, states, and the very notion of citizenship. They also aim to construct a classless, post-capitalist society. The antiauthoritarian principle of individual and collective autonomy promotes a vison of human diversity and plurality at odds with the stifling homogeneity of capitalist consumer culture. Militant anti-fascism is about entirely transforming society by tearing down oppression in all its forms. For revolutionary socialist anti-fascists, the question to ask is “Who will win the political struggle?”
Many antifa groups organize not only against fascism but aim to combat all forms of oppression such a homophobia, capitalism, patriarchy, and so on. Their revolutionary socialist’s ideology advocates the global expropriation of the capitalist ruling class and the destruction (or capture) of all existing states by means of an international popular uprising that most believe will necessitate violent confrontation with all state forces. The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillars of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy but also in ableism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, nationalism, transphobia, class rule, and many others. The long-term goal points to tensions that exist in defining anti-fascism is really about promoting a revolutionary socialist alternative to a world of crisis, poverty, famine and war that breeds fascist reaction.
Strategy: There are three main arguments that Antifa uses to justify their occasional violence. First, anti-fascists make a historical argument based on the accurate observation that “rational debate” and the institutions of government have failed to consistently halt the rise of fascism. Given that fact, they argue that the only hope to prevent a sequel is to physically prevent any potential fascist advance. Second, they point to the many successful examples of militant anti-fascism shutting down or severely hampering far-right organizing since the end of World War II. Third, fascist violence often necessitates self-defense – although anti-fascist challenge conventional interpretation of self-defense grounded in individualistic person ethic by legitimating offensive tactics in order to forestall the potential need for literal self-defense down the line. In other words, anti-fascists don’t wait for a fascist threat to become violent before acting to shut in down physically if necessary. As Murray from the Baltimore ARA explained it:
PROTESTS AND RIOTS – EXCERPTS
BLACK LIVES MATTER: A PEACEFUL PROTEST VIEW: It came as no surprise to some in America when, in the summer of 2013, George Zimmerman was found not guilty on all charges related to Trayvon Martin’s death. It was at that moment that Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi made history and created #BlackLivesMatter. Today #BlackLivesMatter has become a force demanding change in America. Eschewing traditional hierarchical leadership models, the movement cannot be identified with any single leader or small group leaders, despite the role of Cullors, Tometi and Garza played in giving us the social movement hashtag that will likely define our generation. #BlackLivesMatter is akin to a social movement brand that can be picked up and deployed by any interested group of activists inclined to speak out and act against racial injustice. Resentment against white supremacy and contemporary white privilege is easy to understand given how systems of racial ignorance continuously work to undermine black flourishing.
Present-day activist and intellectuals supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement have extended the call for Americans to acknowledge the very basic idea that blacks are worthy of a respect that whites take for granted. Thus, when activists incant “black live matter” they are in fact, asking a great deal of white politicians and white voters. Specifically, they are campaigning for whites to see blacks for the persons they are and as deserving the inviolable rights embodied in personhood. The movement and its supporters – black and white – have done, I think what can be done to respond clearly to the criticism that activist should celebrate that all lives matter. The use of “black” as a predicate of the moral mandate the slogan represents is not meant to suggest that black lives matter more than others. Rather, it claims that in point of fact, across American history, black lives have not mattered very much but are nevertheless morally owed equal standing, so the polity must be reminded of the basic fact that instead of not mattering, black lives do matter. Blacks left lying in the streets by the police, is all the more reason for black Americans to take absolute possession of their humanity in the course of asking others to recognize the worth of their humanity.
Indeed, as I look upon what feels like the unending trend of police violence against blacks, the stubborn forms of material inequality that themselves stunt the life chances of black adults and children, it can sometimes seem that now in the 21st century the future to my innocent past is shaping up to resemble some of the worst of the vision of what ignorance and hubris bring to human society. The inability to embrace each other as having sacred lives worth every effort to hone and protect enable the vices of selfishness and hatred. On that winter day in 2012 when Trayvon Martin was unjustifiably killed by George Zimmerman, a chain of events was set off that defines our present. Martin was by far not the first unarmed black person to be killed with impunity in America. But in the course of events, three women decided that not one more black person’s life would be taken without America being forced to answer the question that black intellectuals have been asking for more than one-and-a-half centuries: do black lives in America matter or not? We still wait for America’s response. But the question has been asked, the conversation is being demanded, and there are yet other futures to be written if we so will it.
Source: The Making of Black Lives Matter: a Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron (2017).
BLACK LIVES MATTER: AN ANARCHY VIEW: When BLM was established in 2013, its stated objective was to galvanize a protest movement in response to the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, a so called “white Hispanic” man who was tried for murder and manslaughter after he had shot and killed a black Florida teenager named Trayvon Martin.
An Openly and Proudly Marxist Movement: BLM’s larger objective went far beyond matters of interracial violence and police conduct. Its overarching mission was to thoroughly discredit the United States as a detestable and irredeemable nation where black people are “collectively” subjected to “inhumane conditions” in a “white supremacist system” that was originally “built on indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.” One of BLM’s three founders, Patrisse Cullors, openly acknowledged BLM’s subversive objectives, “We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia Garza are trained organizers and are trained Marxists.” BLM’s pro-Marxist orientation was articulated with great passion at a BLM protest in 2016, when Cornell University’s Russell Rickford declared: “We’ve got to build a grassroots antiracist movement to defeat capitalism altogether, and it’s not going to happen at the ballot box. There can be no human system under capitalism. Capitalism is an anti-human system.” BLM is closely allied with numerous groups that are fronts for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist entity that advocates the overthrow of capitalism.
Rejecting the Traditional Nuclear Family: In a document titled “What We Believe,” BLM candidly affirms its preference for identity politics based on race: “We see ourselves as part of the global Black family.” BLM also proclaims its desire to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement” and replace it with the socialist ideal of “Villages: serving as: extended families” that “collectively care for one another.”
BLM’s False Claims About the Police and White-on-Black Crime: BLM claims that blacks in the U.S. today are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes.” And although this claim has been widely and passionately echoed by supporters of BLM, it is in fact a monstrous lie, as has been demonstrated consistently by decades of hard empirical evidence.
- A 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics study reports that between 2003 and 2009, whites accounted for 41% of all suspects known to have been killed by police during that 7-year time frame. Blacks and Hispanics accounted for 31.7% and 20.3% respectfully.
- Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald reports that of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015, 55% of the victims were white, 27% were black, and 19% were Hispanic. She concluded “if there is a bias in police shootings it is against white civilians.”
- She further reports, “The per capita rate of an officer being feloniously killed by anyone is 45 times higher than the rate at which unarmed black males are killed by cops. And an officer’s chance of getting killed by a black assailant is 18.5 time higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop.
Saul Alinsky’s Influence on BLM: At a BLM conference in Cleveland on July 24, 2015, members were instructed in the tactics and philosophy of the late Saul Alinsky. Alinsky was a communist fellow traveler who laid out a set of basic strategies designed to help leftist radicals destroy their enemies and transform society into a socialist paradise. If such radicals were to be successful in remaking society, said Alinsky, they “must first rub raw the resentments of the people” by identifying a particular “personification” of evil and “publicly attack” it as a “dangerous enemy” of all that is decent. The chief “personification” in BLM’s crosshairs today is the white police officer. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” Alinsky taught, asserting that the primary task of the radicals is to cultivate, in people’s hearts a visceral revulsion to the mere sight of the target’s face. Alinsky taught that in order to cast themselves as noble defenders of high moral principles, radical activists should take pains to reach dramatically – with greatly exaggerated displays of “chock, horror, and moral outrage” – whenever their targeted enemy errs, or can be depicted as having erred, in any way at all. BLM chooses to magnify – with choreographed indignation – the significance of a tiny handful or questionable cases, and to characterize those as emblems of supposedly widespread police misconduct. Alinsky advised radical activists to avoid the temptation to concede that their opponents are not “100% devil.” That is why we never hear BLM praising the police for anything. Instead, it is 100% attack, 100% of the time, against a 100% devil.
Given that the enemy is to be portrayed as the very personification of evil – against whom the use of any and all tactics is fair game – Alinsky taught that an effective radical activist should never give the appearance of being satisfied with any compromise proposed by the opposition. After all, any bargain with the “devil” is, by definition, morally tainted. The ultimate goal, said Alinsky, is not to arrive at peaceful coexistence, but rather, to completely “crush the opposition” by remaining vigilantly “dedicated to eternal war.” When you have war, it means that neither side can agree on anything. Alinsky also exhorted radical activists to be entirely unpredictable willing – for sake of their crusade – to plunge society at large into chaos and anarchy. “The threat,” he added “is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
The Deadly Consequences of BLM’s Rhetoric: Almost any police shooting of a black person, no matter how threatening the behavior that provoked the shooting, now provokes angry protests. Acquittals of police officers for the use of deadly force against black suspects are now automatically presented as a miscarriage of justice. In a January 2017 Pew Research Center report, it found that 85 to 95 percent of law-enforcement officers in large police departments had become highly reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary and had become increasingly concerned about their own person safety.
Influencing America’s Public Schools: Since 2019, Black Lives Matter at School Week” was being observed by thousands of educators in public schools across the U.S. Even very young schoolchildren are targeted with BLM propaganda in many classrooms. An early childhood teacher’s guide, for instance, emphasizes the importance of using “age-appropriate language” to help youngsters understand various concepts that are central to BLM’s philosophy.
Funding for BLM: Since 2016, Black Lives Matter has been a fiscally sponsored project of Thousand Currents, a left-wing, California based 501c(3) nonprofit organization. The governing board of Thousand Currents includes Susan Rosenberg, who in the 1970s and 80s was a Marxist terrorist. By no means does Thousand Currents represent the only avenue by which donors can support BLM. When people seek to contribute money to the movement via the BLM website, they are transported to the web page of ActBlue Charities, an organization that facilitates donations to “democrats and progressives.” As of May 21, 2020, ActBlue had given $119 million to the presidential campaign of Joe Biden.
BLM and the George Floyd Riots and Protests: In the aftermath of the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many cities were overrun by violent riots in which supporters of BLM and Antifa played a major role. By June, at least 200 cities had imposed nightmare curfews in an effort to quell the mayhem, while more than 30 states had activated some 62,000 National Guard personnel to help restore order. By June 30, at least 14,000 protestors and rioters in 49 separate cities had been arrested. Many of them had attempted to desecrate and/or topple a wide array of federal monuments, memorials, and statues. It is estimated that as of July 3, somewhere between 15 and 26 million people had participated in various demonstrations from coast to coast, prompting The New York Times to run a headline that read: “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.”
Conclusion: Black Lives Matter’s name is a carefully crafted deception designed to draw attention away from the fact that BLM is a hardcore Marxist movement whose overriding mission is to raze American society and its traditions to the ground, and to erect a Communist utopia upon the ruins. Toward that end, BLM works tirelessly to discredit the United States as an irredeemable racist wasteland founded upon nothing but slavery, genocide, and all manners of oppression.
The anti-police rhetoric and violent activities have had devastating consequences for black Americans as a whole. The only black lives that matter to BLM, are the infinitesimally small number that are ended by the actions of white people, particularly white police officers. Meanwhile, the thousands of blacks whose lives are terminated by black killers each and every year are never mentioned by BLM – no matter how brutally, mercilessly, or senselessly those lives may have been snuffed out. It is indeed a tragedy that a movement so evil and so ruinous has been able, with the help of a compliant mainstream news media, to dupe million of Americans into embracing it as a crusade for “racial justice.” In reality, BLM is the very embodiment of Marxism, anti-Semitism, and racism – a trifecta of wickedness capable of destroying any society.
Source: Black Lives Matter: Marxist Hate Dressed Up as Racial Justice by John Perazzo (2020).
Black Lives Matter has become an ally of cancel culture in that anyone who challenges the concept risks cancellation. People have been cancelled for saying or tweeting “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter.” It is a tragedy that the Black Lives Matter organization has moved away from its central mission and has declared war against the nation-state of the Jewish people. In its “platform” more than sixty groups that form the core of the BLM movement went out of their way to single out one foreign nation to accuse of genocide and apartheid.
I also write in fear, because the Black Lives Matter organization has become so powerful, pervasive, influential, I fear that anything it says in its platform may come to be believed by many of its supporters, and if the genocide lies came to be believed by large numbers of decent, but naïve people, it could endanger Israel, Zionists, and Jews. Black Lives Matter should cancel the portions of the platform that falsely accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid. If it does not it risks ending in the dustbin of history, along with other discredited bigoted groups.
Source: Cancel Culture by Alan Dershowitz (2020)
ANTIFA: What is Anti-Fascism (Antifa)?: Anti-Fascism is an illiberal politics of social revolution applied to fighting the Far Right, not only literal fascists. At the core of this complex process of opinion-making is the construction of societal taboos against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression that constitute the bedrock of fascism. Finally, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that anti-fascism has always been just one facet of a larger struggle against white supremacy and authoritarianism. A number of socialist traditions coexist under this umbrella. Since the establishment of U.S. Antifa (ARA), most American antifa have been anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists. They seek to abolish prisons, states, and the very notion of citizenship. They also aim to construct a classless, post-capitalist society. The antiauthoritarian principle of individual and collective autonomy promotes a vison of human diversity and plurality at odds with the stifling homogeneity of capitalist consumer culture. Militant anti-fascism is about entirely transforming society by tearing down oppression in all its forms. For revolutionary socialist anti-fascists, the question to ask is “Who will win the political struggle?”
Many antifa groups organize not only against fascism but aim to combat all forms of oppression such a homophobia, capitalism, patriarchy, and so on. Their revolutionary socialist’s ideology advocates the global expropriation of the capitalist ruling class and the destruction (or capture) of all existing states by means of an international popular uprising that most believe will necessitate violent confrontation with all state forces. The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillars of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy but also in ableism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, nationalism, transphobia, class rule, and many others. The long-term goal points to tensions that exist in defining anti-fascism is really about promoting a revolutionary socialist alternative to a world of crisis, poverty, famine and war that breeds fascist reaction.
Strategy: There are three main arguments that Antifa uses to justify their occasional violence. First, anti-fascists make a historical argument based on the accurate observation that “rational debate” and the institutions of government have failed to consistently halt the rise of fascism. Given that fact, they argue that the only hope to prevent a sequel is to physically prevent any potential fascist advance. Second, they point to the many successful examples of militant anti-fascism shutting down or severely hampering far-right organizing since the end of World War II. Third, fascist violence often necessitates self-defense – although anti-fascist challenge conventional interpretation of self-defense grounded in individualistic person ethic by legitimating offensive tactics in order to forestall the potential need for literal self-defense down the line. In other words, anti-fascists don’t wait for a fascist threat to become violent before acting to shut in down physically if necessary. As Murray from the Baltimore ARA explained it:
You fight them by writing letters and making phone calls, so you don’t have to fight them with fists. You fight them with fists, so you don’t have to fight them with knives. You fight them with knives, so you don’t have to fight them with guns. You fight them with guns, so you don’t have to fight them with tanks.
Source: Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray (2017)
RULES FOR RADICALS: It is impossible to overstate Saul Alinsky’s influence on the Democratic Socialist movement. His rules were so widely and deeply embraced by previous generations of Democratic Socialists that they are already baked into every word and every thought those now charged with educating the next generation to lead the Supremacy to think, write, do, and say. Striking about Alinsky’s manifest is that, unlike most others throughout history there isn’t even the pretense of morality in it. It is nothing other than a heartless “how to” for people lusting for power and who have no moral compunction about how they get it or who they destroy along the way. Alinsky explains the purpose of the rules in the book’s first sentence.
RULES FOR RADICALS: It is impossible to overstate Saul Alinsky’s influence on the Democratic Socialist movement. His rules were so widely and deeply embraced by previous generations of Democratic Socialists that they are already baked into every word and every thought those now charged with educating the next generation to lead the Supremacy to think, write, do, and say. Striking about Alinsky’s manifest is that, unlike most others throughout history there isn’t even the pretense of morality in it. It is nothing other than a heartless “how to” for people lusting for power and who have no moral compunction about how they get it or who they destroy along the way. Alinsky explains the purpose of the rules in the book’s first sentence.
What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be.
Source: The Woke Supremacy by Evan Sayet (2020)
NOTE: There are six pages of excerpts from Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky (1971) in the first PDF attachment below, if you are interested.
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the first pdf document below.
NOTE: There are six pages of excerpts from Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky (1971) in the first PDF attachment below, if you are interested.
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the first pdf document below.
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