BLM´s Shift From Explicit Racist Events to Systemic "White Privilege" Devolves Into Inaccurate and Hostile Witchhunting

@Mark Re Mont note that i gave multiple chances for Joseph to clarify his point, but he refused to do so. he also claimed that the majority of hate crimes were perpetrated by Black offenders, while trotting out the 1350 talking point. the issue here isn't white privilege; the issue is white supremacist attitudes. plenty of people with white privilege feel no need to jump in and say "ACKSHUALLY no one group is innocent!" so yeah, connect the dots if you want...or don't. up to you.

Ia Da @ Mar Re Mon also, as a socialist, i am fully on board with a class analysis of marginalization. however, class reductionism is just as dangerous as class denialism. it's about being "yes, and."

@I Dav True enough, depending. So, "yes and" why are you trying to pin JB as a racist? He´s chafing under BLM´s colorcentric assumptions and the inaccuracies of its colorcentric reductionism. "Racial reductionism" and "colorcentric hate reductionism" themselves are operating from socioeconomic drivers, the more independent variable. We need to establish cause and effect operations, and we can if we are multidisciplinary. Actually, Christian integrity is ultimately a basic psychocultural resource that illuminates the roles of love and hate feelings in ideology or empirical reasoning. Besides cause and effect operations, to avoid reductionism, we need constructionism. That´s where BLM´s legitimate role operates with ALM, and addresses its own shortcomings caused by the primary role of socioeconomic inequality.

Here, You´re trying to pigeonhole a guy at a Progressive Christians website by imposing BLM´s anti-white supremacist and privilege systemic ideology, so the guy is responding to balance it. BLM´s colorcentrism is a secondary variable, with racism a category of violence caused by socioeconomic inequality. Japan never got colonized because they had the psychocultural resources to learn and develop Western University-based society. You´re pushing to interpret the guy JB as racist, but in bucking under the fallacies of BLM´s attempt to use colorcentric "anti-white supremacy and privilege" labelling systemically, he´s actually being egalitarian.

I´m not "socialist", because as you show, that´s a reductionist ideology. I´m pro-social and an interfaith UU Christian for spiritual practice not doctrine, and draw on empirical social analysis to identify socioeconomic inequality as the driving mostly independent variable of violence, all forms including domestic abuse, child abuse, mass murder (!), and more, and racism also. All that gets adjusted for psychocultural resources. Thus, one study shows that non-college whites have higher incomes than other ethnic groups, but higher suicide rates, also.

Thus, post-Reagan US Big Biz exec pro-profiteering ideology has offshored, destroyed the social safety net, wrecked unions in creating an anti-social culture. Scapegoated racist whites didn´t straighten up because say, Obama was elected. The GOP got voter suppression and tRump elected. All after GW Bush and gang had false premised Iraq (with Condi Rice and Colin Powell) with genocide and $ 2 tn.

Christianity is about "love" not because its soft, but because it´s smart and ultimately empirical. Direct hate into constructive objectives, not witchhunt reductionism of your preference. "Whites" could only be "supremacist" if they were objectively in a position of power overall. Also, it is White´s Christianity that needs be recognized for white´s having overcome their own ethnic tribal differences and accomplished a high functioning level of civilization in the US. FDR and Eleanor took a pivotal pro-social stance. Since then, It is pro-rich socioeconomic propaganda since Reagan that has been driving inequality and its consequence in violence.

Meanwhile beyond its specific case application in Civil Rights, at the systemic psychosocial level of individuals with values, colorcentrism obscures economic power factors in a wild goose chase, and is a hostile and dependent, secondary variable in which violence, including racism, is the venting of primary socioeconomic stresses. Police brutality 2/3 against blacks, 1/3 against non-blacks, isn´t random. It reflects broader dehumanization by the pro-rich business ideologues in (post-)Superpower America. Christian love, however, is a key resource, with Gandhi a valuable example, and socioeconomic activists what Occupy Wall St was missing, like Jackson Rising above, or here, Omar Freilla of Green Worker Co-ops in NYC.

BLM will find itself running into the grinding pain and maneuvers generated by the profiteering biz at the systemic level. It wasn´t just any "whites" who developed University-based society, after all, and went so far as to end absolute monarchy and end slavery. It was "whites" with Christian integrity. Then commerce, military, and political whites who were "anti-black," but pro-enrichment and power. This isn´t magic making, it´s about playing catch up. Europe has become Social Europe after FDR´s New Deal America led the WWII victory over bloody lust for power. The rich corp execs hooked up with a Rev Fifield and say Milton Friedman and led to the post- Reagan pro-rich, anti-social ideology that many Americans, black and white, have swallowed. Loving Christian integrity activists are playing catch up. Nevertheless, that is the key root of human rights, civil rights, and the meaning of BLM.