- First is the idea that the BLM community is a silenced and unheard voice. Black victims are the only wrongful deaths at the hands of (white) police officers that are advertised to the country (read: "that matter"). Black people are in the most influential and powerful tiers of culture including entertainment, sports, medicine, money, government, and politics. BLM has a globally-trending hashtag and not for the first time, along with multinational protesting in the names of those who the media has made people hyperacutely aware of. BLM has the endorsement and sponsorship from virtually all of the celebrity, social media, and corporate spheres of influence. When in reality, it is any dissident of any degree to this support that has to silence themselves out of fear for being fired, having their reputation irreparably tarnished, and their livelihoods & family in general being jeopardized. Who's the silent and unheard voice there?
- Next is systemic racism. It's based upon the assumption that primary actors in the system are (1) all white and (2) all racist and (3) so racist that they base all of their important decisions on that racism. An example might be when two people submitting job applications are named "Jamal" and "Michael"; Michael is more likely to get a phone call because he is white-sounding. This depends on the context of the job, and certainly doesn't automatically apply to things like a football field. But in order for this example to work in the first place, it has to assume a large amount of racism on the part of the person calling, when anyone in their right mind knows that an ethnicity doesn't have a monopoly on work ethic. So the racism is assumed in this example and then it is said to be systemic because it's just habit or second nature to people in decision-making positions (the system). Other examples I've heard have to do with what happens after you break the law, so...
Also, not saying there aren't external factors that can make a black man's life harder than a white man's in ways, but (1) that's not a given constant among all people black and white, it's going to depend on who you select for the comparison and (2) it is only a portion of the reality -- at some point, the life choices of individuals who are suffering come into play. Like for example, looting, burning, and destroying the community you claim is being oppressed systemically, but other things like what to spend your money on, how you choose to participate in the upbringing of the next generation, etc.
- White privilege. In having discussions with people, I've found out that when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, my opinions don't matter because I'm white, and therefore have white privilege that invalidates them. It's being used as an impediment to discussions on these issues that don't bounce around in an ethnically pure echo chamber. Any argument or talking point can be shut down by claiming that a white person's privilege is the real problem and is preventing them from understanding anything that needs to be understood to make it obvious that their hideously white position is incorrect. It is a concept that is being used to automatically discount what a white person might have to say. This doesn't sound like a privilege to me, it sounds like exclusion, which is an antonym. The truth is that white privilege doesn't prevent me from knowing that something is right or wrong, because that instinct can be as basic as it gets.
- Silence is violence. In the case of the white person right now who is critical of even aspects of the BLM movement, speaking up is violence. Go to a protest and say "All lives matter" or "Black lives matter, but no more than any other lives!" and time how long it will take for someone to threaten you physically or deliver on that. Silence is violence only when you haven't given your express approval of a particular ideology, one that parrots all the above inverted concepts with no pause or issue. Any other takes on that ideology and silence is your safest bet to keeping your job and protecting yourself and maybe your family too if you have one.
- ACAB. There is no possible set of life experiences that justify believing that all cops are bastards or bad people. It would really only take one good cop to make this completely false. Yet, that's not why touts endorse it; it's because they've seen enough crap from a small minority subset of cops to justify hating or abolishing them all. This is obviously wrong and a bad stance to take, but the same exact person will cry racism if it is turned around.
-Most of the protests are peaceful. Yes they are, and it would be retarded to abolish all protesting because of an amazingly small percentage of looters and rioters upstaging the less-exciting and non-news-baited orderly protests that do a community and society good. See above. This same logic is not allowed to be applied to cops or white people.
- Equal rights. There is not a single right that a white person has that a black person doesn't. Protesters are not protesting for equal rights.
- Desegregation. This concept hasn't inverted as much as it has leapfrogged onto its own shoulders. As we all have seen, companies like Uber Eats are interested in making "black only" lists for eateries. I dare you to make a "white only" list.
- Last but not least is racism itself. Irony and one-way approval of racism can be seen in almost every one of the above. It suddenly isn't racist to assume that someone is automatically racist because of their skin color; white people alone have to make a tremendous, public, and almost theatrical show of their non-racism before the assumption will be lowered. Flip the script; it would be called hideously racist if a white person assumed all black people hated whites. It's suddenly not racist to assume that because I'm white, I endorse, participate in, and enable the racism of others; past, future, and present.
