(From "The Federalist" website)

 If You Really Believe Black Lives Matter, Stop Supporting Black Lives Matter

   Impassioned Americans don't understand that Black Lives Matter is a
   rhetorical facade masking Marxist ideas that would destroy the lives of
   vulnerable Americans.
   By Ben Weingarten
   July 3, 2020

   When people and organizations [25]throw money at identity politics, do
   they know that the causes they support conflict with their purported
   goals?

   Black Lives Matter (BLM) cloaks itself in garb of justice and morality. By
   its very name, well-intentioned people are compelled to support it. After
   all, who does not think the lives of black people matter? Uninformed yet
   impassioned Americans are unaware that the organization's name is a
   rhetorical facade that masks a Marxist core.

   The truth is that the [26]three people who founded BLM include two
   [27]avowed Marxist organizers and an activist sympathizer. Beyond
   supporting more "mainstream" leftist positions, such as [28]socialized
   health care and [29]dramatically increased taxes, BLM's platform has
   historically called for more radical policies. These include creating
   [30]collective ownership in black communities, instituting [31]reparations
   including for illegal aliens, [32]defunding the police, and "disrupt[ing]
   the Western-prescribed [33]nuclear family structure."

The Evil Underpinnings of BLM

   BLM, like the [34]Women's March, has from its start been [35]ardently
   [36]antisemitic. Members of BLM carried out a [37]pogrom in the Los
   Angeles area in May during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. You probably
   never heard about it because in the [38]intersectional left-wing milieu,
   Ashkenazi Jews sit at or near the apex of the privilege pyramid.

   That is, the descendants of Eastern European Jews, 6 million of whom were
   massacred during the Holocaust, are considered by BLM and its ideological
   cohorts to be the world's greatest victimizers. For the like-minded media,
   covering such atrocities would only undermine the narrative and hurt the
   cause, so they remain silent. For BLM, antisemitism is [39]not a
   cancellable offense.

   As we have seen across America these past weeks, like other left-wing,
   antisemitic movements, BLM [40]justifies violence and resorts to it.
   Marxists using race as a cover for revolution ought to be condemned for
   cynically exploiting the deaths of Americans. They are not condemned,
   however, as too many people consider it politically unacceptable to do so.
   Meanwhile, the "antiracist" ideology, rooted in a concept of "white
   fragility," further dupes the ignorant but impassioned.

   BLM poses a cleverly designed dichotomy and demands people choose a side.
   It defines the world as bifurcated between racists and antiracists, and
   commands that you must stand with the latter and attack the former. But
   the antiracists are themselves racists. People like Robin DiAngelo cast
   whites as evil on the basis of their skin color, and call for them to
   spend their lives atoning for their inherent sins as determined by their
   pigmentation.

   This is to say nothing of the fact that their proposed "remedies" for
   societal racism - namely compensating for past discrimination with present
   retributive discrimination - would destroy any notion of true liberty,
   equality, or justice. This is intentional, as their objective is to
   heighten racial strife. It has devolved almost to the point of parody:
   White women are [41]paying nonwhite women to browbeat them over dinner
   about their alleged transgressions.

   People of good faith who reflexively support Black Lives Matter and
   "antiracism" should know they are affirming movements collectively rooted
   in and devoted to Marxism, Jew hatred, violence, racism, social discord,
   and the undermining of our founding values and principles.

Fake Corporate Courage and Virtue

   To what can we attribute the fact that businesses that have historically
   run from radical movements are now falling over themselves to subsidize
   BLM? Beyond the true-believing, often white, woke elites who head many of
   these firms, fear drives corporations to lavish money on BLM for
   "protection." Corporate contributions to leftist movements more broadly,
   and the BLM and "white fragility" [42]racket in particular, seem to be
   part of a social justice shakedown. It has proved [43]effective on a
   smaller [44]scale before.

   That corporations would pay for such protection is both cowardly and
   shortsighted. In the short run, these concerns are merely [45]funding
   continued [46]violence and antisocial behavior by those who wish harm to
   our broader society. In the long run, they will find themselves no more
   secure, as the radical left wishes to destroy the economic and political
   system from which corporate America has so richly benefited. Feeding the
   communist crocodile in hopes it will spare you in the end is a losing bet.

   Moreover, contrary to popular perception, throwing money at left-wing
   agitators, posting black boxes on social media, or literally prostrating
   oneself in the public square requires no courage and demonstrates no
   virtue. It does nothing to ameliorate the problems ailing blacks in
   American inner cities, let alone [47]people of all colors across the
   country.

   If the underwriters of wokedom actually want to improve America, what
   should they do instead?

How to Do the Most Good

   Consider first what not to do. The leaders of major urban areas across the
   country have failed their black constituents for decades by imposing less
   radical versions of the same policies BLM wishes to institute, which will
   only perpetuate poverty and misery.

   More socialism will weaken personal initiative, thwart entrepreneurship,
   and stunt opportunity. Fewer police cannot possibly protect all innocent
   Americans, who are already being stripped of their Second Amendment
   rights. Ideologically driven public education will continue leaving kids
   confused and underserved. And expanded statist policies will further erode
   the family.

   The reality is that if the left is trying to make a case for systemic
   racism, little could better describe it than the policies that have
   prevailed under Democratic rule in America's inner cities for nearly 60
   years, self-evidently contributing to their destruction. The only
   beneficiaries of such policies are the purported representatives of such
   districts, who foster increasing dependence on the state they control,
   therefore accruing ever-greater power. This is what supporters of the woke
   are funding.

   Breaking the leftist stranglehold on America's cities would be a
   worthwhile societal project. Nothing could be further from what has
   transpired.

   Since most everything begins with education, I propose one simple task for
   those who truly wish to support their fellow man. In honor of Thomas
   Sowell, who just celebrated his 90th birthday, let us devise a plan to get
   "[48]Charter Schools and Their Enemies" into the hands of every American.

   This should be wed to a national campaign for excellence in education -
   real education, not social justice indoctrination - through school choice.
   Arguably no single public policy could more effectively reverse leftist
   ruin and empower the country's most vulnerable, too many of whom are
   watching the academy compromise their potentiality.

   Finally, those acting as [49]woke white saviors ought to drop this
   corrosive superiority complex. Such a mentality reflects a soft bigotry of
   low expectations that is infantilizing, dehumanizing, and ultimately
   destructive to the human spirit of those who are [50]ostensibly being
   helped. We should all strive to treat each other as equals and to judge
   others on their merits.

   This ideal is the heart and soul of our country, which is why the woke are
   [51]explicitly [52]targeting it. Americans of good faith must stop aiding,
   abetting, and enabling them.

Links:
25. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-lives-...
26. https://blacklivesmatter.com/our-co-founders/
27. https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-... st/
28. https://web.archive.org/web/20160801231555/ht... /
29. https://web.archive.org/web/20160801231606/ht... ice/
30. https://web.archive.org/web/20160801231606/ht... ice/
31. https://web.archive.org/web/20160801231517/ht...
32. https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/
33. https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
34. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/artic... wn
35. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/blac... viciously-clare-m-lopez/
36. https://web.archive.org/web/20170222143237/ht... mmentary/2016/08/hey-black-lives-matter-your-anti-semitism-is-showing
37. https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/26/the-si...
38. https://amzn.to/3dR4d2M
39. https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/cancel...
40. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/black-li... -violence-problem-163732
41. https://race2dinner.com/
42. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragil...
43. https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/jesse-ja...
44. https://nypost.com/2015/01/04/how-sharpton-ge... rations/
45. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/business/b...
46. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-po... law-for-rising-crime-11580855914
47. https://amzn.to/3gc9Wlm
48. https://amzn.to/3gkr2xt
49. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/artic...
50. https://amzn.to/3gcEV0E
51. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/2... l
52. https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/26/nikole-h... the-basis-of-the-1619-project/

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