and yet BLM is largely run on a city level with each city's chapter disagreeing with the overall organizers to a point they barely cooperate. can u meet with cops to work out plans? do we need cops at all? should all drugs be legal? should slave descendants get reparations? cities a short drive from each other have chapters that cant agree to the basic tenants of CJ reform.



we read it in 5th grade, its not an adult book.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Mar 31 2022 09:07am

are you familiar with the book? I take for granted that American students almost all have To Kill a Mockingbird as required learning, but I imagine euros would benefit from it or reading it on their spare time. Or at least you would while the US retained top dog status, maybe a few years of Biden will push our history into irrelevancy on a world stage. Its told from the perspective of children, with a child's view of the trial. Its a perfectly suitable piece of literature for adolescents, I think I read it in 5th grade or something, then again I finished my college calculus credits by 10th grade so I'm not a typical example.

The actual BLM agenda, like the famous "Defund the Police"-slogan, is not fully fleshed out yet, and it hasn't become mainstream (yet?). There is no majority for this stuff among the liberal half of the politcal spectrum (yet?) while wokeism is.

Imagine John Kerry in 2004 campaigning on the promise to specifically nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, or supporting race-segregated sensibility trainings in corporations and public institutions, or banning 50 year old books because the language they contain doesn't meet today's standards for political correctness. Now that I think about it, even Obama in 2012 would have triggered a shitstorm if he had embraced these policies the way the Biden admin as well as Democratic politicians on the state and local level are doing now.

Obama caught a shitstorm for trying to bring in govt funded healthcare. the progressive docket changes, the fact that progressives are progressive doesn't. wokeism is just the flavor of the week, look at how little they're even trying to socialize healthcare anymore. this stuff doesnt come into existence and then stick in the platform forever at the same level of importance. there will always be a woke strain of liberal policy, but i dont think we can just look at what they're doing and say that democrats will choose black female VPs and SCOTUS judges in some forward reaching precedent forever.

The overton window on racial issues has constantly been moving in one direction only for the past 30+ years. I see no reason why it should stop now.

yes, but what we see through that window changes as it shifts.

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