Quote: Mild Rover "There were elements of the post I’m excerpting from that I agree with, but I like to argue, so...
That certainly exists, but c’mon. A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and I’m sure plenty of others who, if we had any users who had taken on any popular culture references since the mid-90s, those users could tell us about.
there's quite a big difference between songs about enjoying things (admittedly some of those things illegal) and 'smacking you b. up', 'putting a cap in someone' etc.
It is true (well, until those benevolent AIs that I mentioned a while back come along). But just because it is true, it doesn’t make it right. And if oppression is inevitable, isn’t resistance to it not only also inevitable but more legitimate?
at no point am I saying that resisting oppression is anything other than legitimate, moreso I am saying that we cannot selectively chose to remove the facts about oppression from history
It’s an interesting point, but if a problem is seen as being systemic then it possibly begs a holistic approach to solve. There’s lot of stuff over here in liberalsnowflakeland about how these things intersect - if you’re black and a woman, for example.
I'm a bit unsure where you are going with this, there is a stark difference between using a cultural trope and conflating individual aims and ideals behind a single banner
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But, back on topic, I suspect now (or soon) the pubs and cinemas will be open that the protests will fall away like they always do, the BLM point has been made, any action or inaction that comes out of it will be far outweighed by the damage those on both sides have done by hijacking a legitimate cause for more inflammatory actions. (we should probably take this to The Sin Bin M.R, way off the original intend3d topic now I suspect)