Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 15:31 last edited by
Yes, there was violence
But that was caused by the police
https://nypost.com/2021/01/29/black-lives-matter-is-nominated-for-a-nobel-peace-prize/
Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize
Black Lives Matter has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize — a pitch that lauds the movement’s fight against racial injustice but takes little note of the decidedly non-peaceful violence and property damage that has been committed in its name.
BLM was nominated for the humanitarian honor by a Norwegian politician who hailed its multi-racial breadth, calling it “a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice,” The Guardian reported.
The pol, Petter Eide, a member of Norway’s Parliament, brushed aside questions of the movement’s occasions of violence on Friday.
“Studies have shown that most of the demonstrations organised by Black Lives Matter have been peaceful,” Eide said.
“Of course there have been incidents, but most of them have been caused by the activities of either the police or counter-protestors.”
More than 93 percent of U.S. BLM protests have been peaceful, according to a September study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which looked at 7,750 demonstrations from four months of last year.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 16:34 last edited by
Has Donald Trump been nominated again?
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 16:47 last edited by
I hear they are trying to get OJ to make the presentation.
Since Charles Manson isn't available.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 17:35 last edited by
@axtremus said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
Has Donald Trump been nominated again?
Not yet, but they are working toward it.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 18:18 last edited by
Quite easy to get nominated for that prize. I was actually surprised how easy it was.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 18:52 last edited by
The bigger question is why should we even care that BLM is nominated?
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 19:08 last edited by
@renauda said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
The bigger question is why should we even care that BLM is nominated?
Why should we care that the social movement behind the fascistic Seattle neighborhood takeover, and the never ending Portland riots, and many other destructive but less well known riots in 2020, was nominated for the Nobel peace prize?
Because it speaks to important western social ideas, held most strongly by high status white liberals.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 19:48 last edited by
In that case if BLM wins the Noble Peace Prize, I reckon some folks have a legitimate right to grieve the decision. I recall some folks disputing the award going to Nelson Mandela. Others felt that Barak Obama wasn't deserving either.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 19:51 last edited by
The award really doesn't matter, does it?
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 20:04 last edited by
@rainman said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
The award really doesn't matter, does it?
I don't remember when I stopped caring.I do. It was precisely when I learned what it actually was.
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@rainman said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
The award really doesn't matter, does it?
I don't remember when I stopped caring.I do. It was precisely when I learned what it actually was.
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 21:06 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
@rainman said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
The award really doesn't matter, does it?
I don't remember when I stopped caring.I do. It was precisely when I learned what it actually was.
But ceremonies are important.
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In that case if BLM wins the Noble Peace Prize, I reckon some folks have a legitimate right to grieve the decision. I recall some folks disputing the award going to Nelson Mandela. Others felt that Barak Obama wasn't deserving either.
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 21:44 last edited by@renauda said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
In that case if BLM wins the Noble Peace Prize, I reckon some folks have a legitimate right to grieve the decision. I recall some folks disputing the award going to Nelson Mandela. Others felt that Barak Obama wasn't deserving either.
I don't know much about what Mandela might think, but I suspect Mr Obama would strongly approve of BLM winning the award.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 22:05 last edited by
How many women have been raped at BLM protests?
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 22:13 last edited by
318 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. Long list, bound to be lots of clickbait in the pile.
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How many women have been raped at BLM protests?
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 22:16 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
How many women have been raped at BLM protests?
How would anybody know? The microscope hasn't been put on BLM protests.
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318 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. Long list, bound to be lots of clickbait in the pile.
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 22:18 last edited by@loki said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
318 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. Long list, bound to be lots of clickbait in the pile.
That does seem like a lot. However the fact remains that American pop culture would largely embrace a win for BLM. God knows a large majority of high status white liberals would.
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wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 23:14 last edited by Renauda
Regardless of American pop culture and what it thinks, other than very little, BLM has become an international movement. There were plenty of BLM sponsored protests and demonstrations in solidarity with what was happening in the US, up here last summer that did not result in riots, looting or seizures of public spaces. BLM also joined forces with the various indigenous groups against systemic racism. The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight. Usually the rednecks got their sorry asses whupped but good by the indigenous allies - you know, Larry's bro's. - of BLM.
Elbows up!
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Regardless of American pop culture and what it thinks, other than very little, BLM has become an international movement. There were plenty of BLM sponsored protests and demonstrations in solidarity with what was happening in the US, up here last summer that did not result in riots, looting or seizures of public spaces. BLM also joined forces with the various indigenous groups against systemic racism. The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight. Usually the rednecks got their sorry asses whupped but good by the indigenous allies - you know, Larry's bro's. - of BLM.
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 23:17 last edited by@renauda said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight.
I have no knowledge of whether that did, or did not, happen in countries other than the US.
I watched much of Chicago and my neighboring suburbs burn with no redneck involvement.
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Regardless of American pop culture and what it thinks, other than very little, BLM has become an international movement. There were plenty of BLM sponsored protests and demonstrations in solidarity with what was happening in the US, up here last summer that did not result in riots, looting or seizures of public spaces. BLM also joined forces with the various indigenous groups against systemic racism. The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight. Usually the rednecks got their sorry asses whupped but good by the indigenous allies - you know, Larry's bro's. - of BLM.
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 23:26 last edited by@renauda said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
Regardless of American pop culture and what it thinks, other than very little, BLM has become an international movement. There were plenty of BLM sponsored protests and demonstrations in solidarity with what was happening in the US, up here last summer that did not result in riots, looting or seizures of public spaces. BLM also joined forces with the various indigenous groups against systemic racism. The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight. Usually the rednecks got their sorry asses whupped but good by the indigenous allies - you know, Larry's bro's. - of BLM.
Sounds like a real good vs evil fight. Certainly that is the narrative propagated by high status white liberals here with no real skin in the game. Other than to feel better about themselves, being good.
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Regardless of American pop culture and what it thinks, other than very little, BLM has become an international movement. There were plenty of BLM sponsored protests and demonstrations in solidarity with what was happening in the US, up here last summer that did not result in riots, looting or seizures of public spaces. BLM also joined forces with the various indigenous groups against systemic racism. The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight. Usually the rednecks got their sorry asses whupped but good by the indigenous allies - you know, Larry's bro's. - of BLM.
wrote on 30 Jan 2021, 23:52 last edited by@renauda said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
Regardless of American pop culture and what it thinks, other than very little, BLM has become an international movement. There were plenty of BLM sponsored protests and demonstrations in solidarity with what was happening in the US, up here last summer that did not result in riots, looting or seizures of public spaces. BLM also joined forces with the various indigenous groups against systemic racism. The only time problems arose is when groups of local rednecks and reactionaries showed up and deliberately provoked a fight. Usually the rednecks got their sorry asses whupped but good by the indigenous allies - you know, Larry's bro's. - of BLM.
BLM's real success will not be measured with whupped rednecks
BLM's success will be measured by dead police
That is the reason the group was created, to kill police
