In an effort to remain engaged, I've attempted to construct comparatively demented arguments, Lor. Please let me know if i need to add more unrelated facts for it to make sense to you.
In all honesty though, I can't believe you are genuinely too dumb to understand the points that I make. mick's parodies are too well constructed for me to believe that, so I am left believing your posts are genuine and you are maliciously ignoring my point because there is zero humor in your posts.
In case I wandered too much or was too indirect above:
You are dishonest or you are an idiot. There is also the offchance that you are simply blinded by arrogance, but I don't think so.
I feel liek this role is intent on annoying me. if that was the goal, I congratulate you, but still don't understand why you would want to do something liek that. I have learned from the behavior though. anyway, see below.
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Ok, let's start with the millions thing: measuring membership in social movements is hard. It's not like everyone who believes in and supports BLM goes to a webpage and registers. But all you need is basic math to see it has to be in the millions.
There are 326+ million people in America. For "millions" to be accurate, only 2 million, or 0.6% of the population would have to support BLM. Do you really think less than 0.6% of America supports BLM?
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sorry, but about 1/4th of the US is children and while members of BLM may act as such, they are not. this means that your 2million number is inflated by around 1/3. However, if we are to assume that BLM is as diverse as the United States, that number would mean that 1 of every 25 blacks would be members of BLM (assuming no oppressors or similarly subjugated people's are members).
However, the ACTUAL number of BLM members is 42,481.
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Second, you're 100% wrong about it starting with Mike Brown; hell it didn't even start with Rodney King. African-Americans in our society have been dealing with police brutality and harassment since the moment they were freed, and they've been fighting it for just as long. BLM is just a continuation of MLK's and Malcom X's fight, which in turn continued the fight that came before.
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No, BLM has nothing to do with MLK.
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You sort of have a point: African-Americans (as a logical function of their history) have higher crime rates. And certainly, if cops are arresting criminals, and African-Americans make up more of the criminals, they'll get arrested more.
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This happens a lot unfortunately and is something we need to work on as a nation.
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But none of that has anything to do with the stuff BLM is fighting, stuff like police brutality and false arrests/convictions. No one, whatever their race, deserves to live in fear of the police,
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That's how people end up getting shot.
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to be beaten by police, or to be falsely arrested and/or convicted.
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BLM is about leveraging the strong arm of government in the theft and dissolution of private property.