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Sexypwnstar posted...

It's a strength, numerous times "BLM leaders" were caught doing wrong shit but the arguing point is that they don't have an official leadership structure or some shit

I like that you cut out all the ironclad reasons why it's a weakness and just ignored them. Which sums up the problem with BLM perfectly.

"It's a strength that the movement has no clear goal, agenda or endgame. It's a strength that it's conversation points can be derailed and controlled effortlessly. It's a strength that grifters, rioters and lunatics can say or do anything they want and have no more or less legitimacy than level-headed people. It's a strength that it's just like Occupy Wall Street because as we all know that was so successful."

No, those are all weaknesses. If a movement can't "win" and achieve a goal, it's never going to be ultimately successful. Even though it also means it can't lose and will exist for a long long time. It'll exist in the background not achieving much of anything. There's no focus.

Umbreon posted...

And then they bastardize and whitewash their message when they're no longer around to correct them.

Sure but they couldn't stop the end of segregation or Jim Crow laws.

As well as discrimination in hiring and selling products. At least on paper.

"We want desegregated schools, we want it to be illegal to refuse to sell a house to a black guy just because he's black."

Once the 1968 civil rights act passed, the civil rights movement had won. Any games trying to discredit MLK as a communist womanizer didn't really matter because the message was so clear.

Again I would ask, what leglisation could possibly pass that would end the BLM movement? There is no such thing. It's too nebulous.