Yep.

Vi Hart may well be the best person.

at the start of BLM i saw so many folks struggle with it (in a fashion similar to the "i dont see race" person who pops up in every jane elliott experiment) and i was sympathetic, but i keep running into these people and suddenly their weird attempts to be beacons of infallible perspective is more agitating than even the most racist assholes i've known

Were those corpses really small or was that kid hella strong?

it's a cool way to symbolize that they're barely any weight on US society's conscience

or you can pretend he had a radio flyer wagon idk

This, in my opinion, is fine to believe

What the fuck are you talking about?

This isn't an example of whites congratulating themselves on their own progressiveness. Instead, it's an example of one white (you got that part right, at least) explaining some basics about race relations to other whites. Yes, some of her audience already knows this shit, but there's a good chance that she'll reach at least a couple whites to whom this is helpful.

oh wow look another asshole who conflates cynicism with wisdom

You know what the phrase "Black Lives Matter" means and if you pretend you don't you're a racist asshole.

@DQL, This ain't math you chode and pretending that every movement is a hive mind is fucking dumb. Seriously, you and every other schmuck attempting to be objective to a movement would rather pretend it's a fucking vacuum procession and take the back seat than actually participate.

All lives matter. Water is wet. Cats go meow.

Never before have so many people repeated something so meaningless.

When "all lives" have to start worrying about getting shot to death for jaywalking or carrying a toy gun, then this asinine little hashtag might start meaning something.

But you know damn well that the only reason someone would say "All lives matter" n this context is because there's some ugly place deep inside you that refuses to accept that a black person deserves to exist on this planet just as much as you do.

^^ stars

Spirit stars to Xenocide. (I don't want to be the kind of douche who 5-stars their own video.)

Well five-star him for me please.

I just want to say I've always loved Dairyqueenlatifah. Are you on Facebook, dude?

This ain't math you chode and pretending that every movement is a hive mind is fucking dumb.

I know it's not math. I watch Vi Hart for math / geometry things. Not political things.

One star.

You are fucking useless, and you are the problem, Gmork. 0 stars for you.

I think most people here are on board with BLM in general. As far as the Toronto gay pride parade goes, I initially thought that BLM interrupting them was very much picking the wrong target; I remain skeptical, but I have at least read that there are levels of politics going on between the two groups so maybe it was a better-targeted operation than it initially seemed.

Anyway, I'm not sure what precisely you're reacting to, because overall it looks like people here have a handle on BLM and the legitimacy of their cause.

I think he's assuming the 1-star brigade is representative of poetv, rather than the same few sad sacks who stubbornly refuse to understand why #AllLivesMatter is bullshit. (Plus whatever-the-hell memedumpster is doing)

I fully support the idea of BLM. I just think, like many other progressive, truly liberal minded causes, it has at least been partially hijacked by regressive leftists who are using it as an excuse to:
1. marginalize other, equally valid movements because their brains cannot process the idea of multiple social injustices being on the same footing.
2. act out their own personal prejudices on other people under the cloak of a social cause. (the black community, nationally, has been universally awful on gay rights and religious freedom issues for decades, so when you interrupt or co-opt gay rights movements, you are literally doing the same horrible, dismissive crap to gay people as white people do to blacks when they dismiss BLM)
3. Silence their critics, no matter how valid their opinions are, in the usual regressive "everyone who disagrees with me is a racist" sort of way so that they exist in the very same kind of echo chamber that most right-wing, racist groups exist in, interestingly enough.

BLM is fine, for the most part. The problem is that the majority of people in the movement and its primary figures are not doing enough to marginalize the idiots who are using the BLM brand for their own dumb bullshit.

Stanley sums my opinion perfectly.

"I fully support the idea of BLM."


Bullshit

"I just think, like many other progressive, truly liberal minded causes, it has at least been partially hijacked by regressive leftists who are using it as an excuse to:"

Bullshit. You don't have to be on the left to be a part of BLM. It is not a progressive, truly liberal minded cause.

"1. marginalize other, equally valid movements because their brains cannot process the idea of multiple social injustices being on the same footing."

That's not new and using the peanut gallery as a point of opinionated interest is a waste of anyone's time and also reflects what I just described as anyone using the lack of uniformity to descredit or marginalize a movement.

"2. act out their own personal prejudices on other people under the cloak of a social cause. (the black community, nationally, has been universally awful on gay rights and religious freedom issues for decades, so when you interrupt or co-opt gay rights movements, you are literally doing the same horrible, dismissive crap to gay people as white people do to blacks when they dismiss BLM)"

Tipper Gore was a bigger fucking cloak using the PMRC hearings as a way to stifle music that had "controversial" opinions regarding minority groups. This isn't a fucking cloak, this is you wanting there to be something so you can be pissed off at blacks.

"3. Silence their critics, no matter how valid their opinions are, in the usual regressive "everyone who disagrees with me is a racist" sort of way so that they exist in the very same kind of echo chamber that most right-wing, racist groups exist in, interestingly enough."

And what if those critics actually turn out to be whiny shits. What if those critics are whiny shits seeking opinions from shitty people who brandish themselves as being in the movement. What if the people who are silencing others with the label of racism feel like they're answering the same god damn 3 or 4 questions in a row and are tired of fucking elaborating politely and diplomatically as to why their ideas or misconceptions are fucking bad. There's so much of a gray area that pretending the black and white effect is anything more than fatigue is more self-serving bullshit than a matter of patience.

"BLM is fine, for the most part. The problem is that the majority of people in the movement and its primary figures are not doing enough to marginalize the idiots who are using the BLM brand for their own dumb bullshit."

Again, you do not have to be leftist to be a supporter of BLM and pretending this shit is a hive mind effect when there are even white motherfucking conservatives who opened their mouths and said "There is a problem" when Eric Garner fucking died is fucking disingenuous to say the least.

@acloudoffarts
"Stanley sums my opinion perfectly."

No he doesn't. He didn't say anything about banning selling skittles to niglets and setting a curfew for niggers all around.

Joe, you're self-destructing and it's entertaining as hell.

Also why do you love to say "nigger" so much?

To give you the illusion that you're not a racist piece of shit.

But it's not an illusion. I think I know myself a little better than you, Joe.

I'd rather be mistaken for a racist than someone who tells people "GO FUCKING DIE" with a straight face. I'd say it's fun watching you flounder about and tilt at windmills, but it's actually kind of frightening.

You put a whole lot of effort into being angry. It's not good for your heart (or your soul).

I really wish you were being honest about your second paragraph there, but the last time you were asked about you feelings towards transsexuals you blubbered like Bill Donohue. A chance that any open minded, willing to share what dilemmas and emotional hurdles it took to overcome the stereotypes and perspectives, let alone the rare chance of someone from the get go able to understand why acceptance is a full circle revelation that you do not just do once.

The only redeeming fucking amount of any personal emotional exposition and discovery you have done was a timid fucking surrender to the idea that yes, there are people who enjoy mariachi bands and the genre of mariachi and coming out that you get off on one of the fetishes often displayed on poetv.

You have done nothing but fight and regress into a pretentious defense of don't be an asshole or being angry is bad. Worse yet you've started doing it now to deflect any incrimination or any discussion that could further.

You do not have the room to earnestly fucking say that you'd rather be mistaken for a racist than for someone to wish you'd fucking die.

My phone is acting up, so apologies for the double post

If it's any consolidation, you're not the only person I've dealt with who struggles with their emotions and not due to a disability. I don't want to say anything further, and I highly recommend not assuming that I'm referring to PTSD, because it can needlessly complicate things, but the needy, clingy and fragile ego are traits you should consider investigating everything about them. How they form, what's their purpose and even if they exist. It does not help you one bit to jump from one line to the other with the belief that a lack of response or resistance means it worked. It SHOULDN'T even be about getting something to work, because that is exactly what psychology was when it took up anything spiritual in it's process and only ended up existing to deny others even existing.

"I really wish you were being honest about your second paragraph there,"

I am.

"You have done nothing but fight and regress into a pretentious defense of don't be an asshole or being angry is bad. Worse yet you've started doing it now to deflect any incrimination or any discussion that could further."

You don't seem to want a discussion, every time you respond to me it's to froth at the mouth and tell me to "GO FUCKING DIE". Sorry if I don't exactly take you as seriously as you'd like.

"You do not have the room to earnestly fucking say that you'd rather be mistaken for a racist than for someone to wish you'd fucking die."

Yes, I do.

"If it's any consolidation, you're not the only person I've dealt with who struggles with their emotions and not due to a disability."

I'd imagine not, unless your house lacks mirrors.

["I really wish you were being honest about your second paragraph there,"

I am.]

No. You're not.

["You have done nothing but fight and regress into a pretentious defense of don't be an asshole or being angry is bad. Worse yet you've started doing it now to deflect any incrimination or any discussion that could further."

You don't seem to want a discussion, every time you respond to me it's to froth at the mouth and tell me to "GO FUCKING DIE". Sorry if I don't exactly take you as seriously as you'd like.]

Please list the other times that I have sincerely wished you were fucking dead. And please list a time where I was mindlessly chewing you out and not calling you out.

["You do not have the room to earnestly fucking say that you'd rather be mistaken for a racist than for someone to wish you'd fucking die."

Yes, I do.]

No, you don't. You're a giant fucking cowardly piece of shit, so no matter what answer you give, it's not going to have an ounce of credibility.

["If it's any consolidation, you're not the only person I've dealt with who struggles with their emotions and not due to a disability."

I'd imagine not, unless your house lacks mirrors.]

My god. That was probably the best olive branch out there and you turn it into an opportunity to be a vindictive piece of shit in the most pretentiously way possible. The reason I even gave you what I said was due to having a personal struggle with emotions that I could not personally come to terms as to why they felt out of place. What I gave you wasn't an all out, single piece cure, but a manner of coping through life while climbing out of it. But apparently a closet inflationist doesn't have any sort of struggles to begin with.

Please, keep enjoying your stay in PoeTV, because the only way you survive is continually and habitually being a back stabbing, conniving piece of shit who tries to distance themselves away from any and all positive influence, whether intentional or not.

There are other black voices out there with more suggestions:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/06/th is-is-what-white-people-can-do-to-support-blacklivesmatter/

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/11_things_white_people_can_do_ to_be_real_anti_racist_allies_partner/

thank you!

The post so nice he made it twice.

Oh, and I said "I'd rather be mistaken for a racist than BE someone who wishes another to fucking die".

Like I've said before, I would prefer that people become better rather than corpses.

Oh you poor, privileged white guy. Your life must be hell.

ROUS, I have dealt with those black people who are racist as fuck. Granted, they were kids, but it doesn't change the fact they are just as ignorant as anyone else who hasn't thought about the complications, the logistics and frailty of insuring equality.

It is a fucking glaring problem. It is a fucking glaring concern. But letting that get to you promotes what every scheming white supremacist wants and that's to dissolve the fucking movement, a movement that encompasses blacks from all ranges of life, which makes the movement dissolving fucking inevitable considering how long the subject has been under the spotlight with zero fucking accountability on authorities. Zero fucking word from the NRA. Zero fucking word from every fucking agency that is made to have checks and balances to ensure equality for all.

Now, I tried to search for an instance of ISIS infiltrating BLM but there is nothing distinct popping up that is a headline of that matter. So please, link it to me. Otherwise, calm the fuck down, get your fucking head together. It's a struggle that doesn't just affect black people because as long as that power gap continues, this will only get worse and worse and those who are already shitty are just going to be even shittier than they had even been before.