I used to watch old footage from the 60s of African Americans getting hosed down in front of businesses for “peacefully protesting”. I used to see that news media footage thinking “look at all this racism, they weren’t doin nuffin”. Now, I wonder what was really happening and if perhaps the media played a role even then in misrepresentation.
This has also made me 100% recontextualize the Rodney king riots. This BLM shit is so toxic, it’s retroactively making me reconsider similar “protests” that I felt were positive or at least justified.
Is anyone else feeling this way?
I’m impressed by your educational credentials but I still have my doubts.
Keep in mind, I’m not criticizing civil rights in and of itself. I’m wondering how fair of a representation we got of what was really happening during the 60s within the black community and how they actually handled it aside from the approved narrative.
The reason we have the perspective of today is because of a mixture of things that didn’t exist back then: social technology, decades of historical perspective, internet access and choices aside from leftist controlled news orgs.
I find it very telling that anyone back then who tried to explain the issues of the black community outside of “whites did it all” was immediately branded racist. Just like today.
The entire right was demonized, just like today. We only saw pro-black, pro-civil rights media when it came to the news, just like today.
Civil rights were also being used as a blanket tactic to push communism, just like today.
You can’t really ignore the parallels, trust me, I’ve desperately tried. But history repeats itself when you don’t fully comprehend what happened the first time and there’s quite a bit of that occurring now.
Jesse Lee definitely agrees.
I think it was a con, as usual. If they're pushing it that hard, it's inevitable.
Good things did result from it, for sure, but so did a ton of the grievance-hustle that basically created a permanent under class.
You have to consider if there was a legitimate complaint. Was there a legitimate complaint? Well, yes -- a constitutional concern even. That was for Civil Rights. That movement had far more organic involvement than what we see today. Was it infiltrated? Yes; that's the problem. What we have been taught about it is really a problem -- they didn't really tell the truth (that there was communist infiltration all along; that a lot of nasty socialist agenda got pushed through along with valid addressing of a valid problem; that actual communists got their foot in the political door through that valid movement: but it's happened before, with women's voting rights, with worker's rights...with education reform, ag reform; you name it ).
Good point on the demonization: at the time I would say no; they had to downplay Dem involvement in the suppression (Bull Connor, not a Republican); it was later, in the history books that the real lies could get spread (party switch for instance).
Today is agitprop. Police acting like dicks is an age old complaint, usually localized, and doesn't meet the requirements for a movement -- but it isn't worth it's own movement; it can be handled at the local level (if it needs to be handled at all: most concerns are overblown).