"Employees of Pride Montreal then broke the circle of protesters and took away Rose’s megaphone. People in the crowd shouted at them to “shut up during the moment of silence” but the BLM protesters refused."
"To make our voices heard we chose to do this during the
moment of silence,” said Brian*, a protester and member of Black Lives Matter
Montreal. “It wasn’t disrespectful because the moment was meant to commemorate
the people who died [of AIDS or homophobic and transphobic laws], and most of
them are trans women of color so we reclaimed that moment.”
Black Lives Matter punching down and keeping to easy targets
that they know won't fight back, yet again.
The spirit of the NAACP or the SCLC is definitely NOT
present with BLM. 20th century civil rights movements risked their lives
standing up to state power and violent lynch mobs to win basic rights for
downtrodden minorities.
BLM is itself a violent lynch mob that "disrupts"
the activities of other marginalized people, and does so with only the remotest
likelihood of legal repercussions despite their flagrant disregard for the
civil rights of others (which they hold dear for themselves) and near total
immunity from criticism from government, media and academia. If this is your
idea of civil disobedience and speaking truth to power, I laugh in your face.
Looks pretty damn performative to me.
BLM was founded by a trio of western educated anti-sex
"queer" feminists, their ideology is a thin veneer of black
consciousness overtop French postmodernism, German critical theory, heavily
bastardized pseudo Marxism and puritanical feminism rooted in anglo American
Victorian era social purity, and topped off with just the kind of Ford
Foundation and George Soros money that so effectively co-opts so called
"radical" movements. Perhaps the group should rename itself Guilty
White Consciences Matter. Sounds like Romanticism, but OK.
One leftist group I doubt that BLM will be trying to shut down in this manner any time soon is Antifa. Because our favorite faux alt-leftists actually punch back, as they did in a recent protest where both groups originally showed up, apparently on the same side. At least at first. "One Antifa member wound up punching a Black Lives Matter activist after the Black Lives Matter member chastised the Antifa radicals for
hiding behind their masks."
Were Antifa to confine their hard line tactics to real bona
fide fascists, I'd be all for them. Let's keep in mind here that Hitler was not
defeated by rational persuasion and claims to the moral high ground. Fascism as
an ideology was always explicitly clear in both theory and practice as to the
central role played by redemptive violence in both its rise to power and
exercise of power once claimed. Sadly, an entrenched fascist movement only
understands one language, and when our grandfathers went to Europe in the 1940s,
it wasn't to convince the Nazis of the error of their ways through superior
logic. And we today look at our grandfathers as heroes, and rightly so in my
opinion.
The issue I have with Antifa is the issue I have with
vigilantism more generally. Antifa are not elected by the people and they are
accountable to no one, save their own collective group conscience, which we've
all seen to be driven by moral panic and group hysteria. So we should not be
surprised by Antifa’s propensity to lapse into senseless destructiveness and
failure to distinguish between conservatives and libertarians - whose
differences can and should be resolved by debate and at the ballot box - and
actual fascists.
Or in this case, Black Lives Matter protesters.
"The BLM activist stood in front of the Antifa crowd, bellowing, “Take the mask off! Take the mask off.” His compatriots started chanting, “Mask off! Mask off! Mask off!
That prompted the Antifa crowd to start yelling at the black man, “He’s a cop! He’s a cop! He’s a cop!”
One masked male white member of Antifa got right in the black man’s face, then punched him directly in the face, prompting another BLM activist to start yelling, “You f**king hit ’em! You f**king hit 'em! Take the mask off!
A young female Antifa member then started screaming, “He f**king pushed me! He f**king pushed me!” She and the BLM activist started screaming curses at each other.
Later, a BLM member addressed the Antifa crowd, saying, “We ain't gonna let some outsiders make us look bad."You're doing a good enough job of that yourself, BLM.
The whole charade reminds me of that brilliant scene, one of so many, in the prophetic satire of prophecy, Monty Python's Life of Brian:
"Brothers! We should be struggling together! We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!"
"THE JUDEAN PEOPLE'S FRONT!"
"No! No! The Romans!"