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Orrex

(63,215 posts) Tue Nov 24, 2015, 12:16 PM Nov 2015

Imagine if a BLM protester had shot a white supremacist instead.

There'd be 24/7 news coverage, forced curfews and arrests of "suspects" en masse, some of whom would no doubt be shot for "resisting arrest."

(This was originally a reply in another thread, but a DU pal suggested I post it as an OP.)

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Imagine if a BLM protester had shot a white supremacist instead. (Original Post) Orrex Nov 2015 OP

That is what the "White" supremacists have been hoping for. I hear it LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #1

A white attacker will probably be shot by a black. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #2

I'm pretty sure that you recognize that to be a loaded question Orrex Nov 2015 #3

"Get out of discussion free cards" seem to be your splendid forte, given your responses... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #4

LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)

1. That is what the "White" supremacists have been hoping for. I hear it

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 12:30 PM

Nov 2015

"You have to get yourself a gun, you know that the "blacks" are going to riot again", Oh sure, uh huh.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

2. A white attacker will probably be shot by a black.

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 02:45 PM

Nov 2015

I'm not so sure about the rest of your scenario.

But since it a "retaliatory" shooting will probably take place, we will find out.

Do you see a difference between BLM and the H. P. Newton Gun Club? Do the two groups overlap, or is there a kind of SCLC/SNCC/Panther distinction?

Orrex

(63,215 posts)

3. I'm pretty sure that you recognize that to be a loaded question

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 03:36 PM

Nov 2015

Just as I recognize that the H. P. Newton Gun Club is one of your favorite go-to points as if it's a get-out-of-discussion-free card.

Do you see a difference between BLM and the H. P. Newton Gun Club?

That question is impossible to answer until you explain what kind of difference you have in mind.

Do the two groups overlap, or is there a kind of SCLC/SNCC/Panther distinction?

This is likewise impossible to answer until you explain what you mean by "overlap" in this context.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

4. "Get out of discussion free cards" seem to be your splendid forte, given your responses...

Reply to Orrex (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 12:28 PM

Nov 2015

Actually, I don't know what if any are the diffs between the Newton Gun Club and BLM. Does the BLM adhere to a strict non-violence policy in the manner of MLK, or does it have philosophical elements closer to Malcolm's notions of self-defense, esp. those of established communities? Is there a continuum of activist % militant beliefs; a try one method to see if it works, then try another? It ain't the 60s & 70s anymore, so I really don't know, and it appears you may not know either.

I find it curious that I get out of having discussions. E38, yet.

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