RichardDunneOwnGoal
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This opinion is pretty much what the BLM protests are about. Black on black killing doesn’t really matter, whereas random terrorist kills “normal” people and everyone is up in arms.
So far wide of the mark it's untrue.
It's the BLM movement itself that doesn't care about black on black crime, because what they're obsessed about is the narrative of oppression in which "white supremacy" (however loosely you define it) is the fault of literally absolutely every negative thing that begets anyone who isn't white in the US, and now seemingly anywhere else in the Western world for that matter.
It's trendy to support because no one wants to be viewed as racist, and most aren't, so feel compelled to get that social approval by promoting BLM. There's social kudos to be gained by supporting and promoting it, and not casting a critical eye over the movement.
When some Islamist kills a bunch of white people there's no social kudos to be gained in condemning it. In fact you're more likely to be suspected of being a bigot if you're vocal about it, or attempt reflections on what can be done to prevent it, that's the real absurdity.
While the truth is the only reason that would be terrorist is in the UK, and free to kill and maim, is because Britain is a tolerant and liberal country which grants plenty of opportunities to people from all corners of the globe to come here to settle and contribute, regardless of their ethnic background, race or religion.
Yet we have to hear and blindly accept the narrative that Britain is an intrinsically racist society to its core, and if we don't we're racist and part of the problem.
It's a joke, and I think most people are sick of hearing it.
As far as the media coverage goes, the terrorist attack that happened in Reading was completely indiscriminate and can happen to anyone at any time or place. That's why it frightens people and grabs headlines.
Knife and gun crime is a national talking point and has been for ages, but no one can agree on how to stop it and it usually happens between young men who target one another and not the wider public. That's why it doesn't garner the same national press.
And what's more, because everyone's preoccupied with the BLM movement at the moment, in which they ignore black on black crime or treat discussion of it as a kind of dog whistle for racists to ignore racism, then what makes you think a shooting in Moss Side will be anything other than an inconvenient side story right now?
It's massively ironic as well because the biggest criticism of "black lives matter" is that they only matter when they can be exploited to serve a political agenda or narrative: e.g. police bad, or evidence of oppression via "white supremacy". Two young black lads dying in a shooting can't at all serve that narrative so it's just background noise to the movement.
That's why people like me see the wider movement as divisive American identity politics, via their absolutely toxic race relations, and shouldn't be supported or promoted.
Racism exists, and anti racism is a good thing. That doesn't mean BLM or the growing obsession with race via America is a positive thing.