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Originally Posted by loramin
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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?
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.
As for:
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.
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, to be beaten by police, or to be falsely arrested and/or convicted.
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So, fabricating numbers and making assumptions is now how you prove your claims? I am sorry but no, there were never 2 million plus people who supported BLM. It has been extremely localized to minority communities and extremists. They have not proven a single claim in regards to police brutality targeting race and ethnicity. They literally have to set up buses to bring in instigators because they dont have enough support in the communities they try to protest in. They have taken over other protests and celebration in order to push their own agendas, but you cant count those appropriated by this movement as its actual supporters.
It was in fact started by 3 black women who were heavily influenced by a convicted cop killer who is currently living in Cuba. It has nothing to do with MLK or Rodney King, which is a funny example that you should go back and read what really happened to. You are trying to correlate the BLM movement with the civil rights movement among others, which is just a false equivalency since they are in no way actually related.