Time to honestly admit it: No matter how legitimate the protests, we are dealing with a huge social and political movement which is more akin to childish petulance than anything else.
We are experiencing nothing less than an farce of a movement when big corporations can put up Black Lives Matter statements; millionaire athletes can perform similar in cameos on television, and; politicians who have run the show for decades can glom onto the sense of widespread injustice claimed by many, without the public realizing that if there really is a “privileged” class in American society capable of empowering the “oppressors” of minorities and so-called marginalized, it is those same wealthy, influential, and powerful.
…is there sincerity in all the notice-me-and-my-virtue public relations and marketing?
Mark Steyn, when hosting for Rush, pointed out there is no such thing allowed as an “honest conversation” about the meaning of the lives of black people in America.
When the same virtue signaling powerful and influential refuse to recognize the ongoing annihilation of the black population in America through abortion and black-on-black homicide so prevalent across the country and easily observable in some cities like Chicago on any given weekend, is there sincerity in all the notice-me-and-my-virtue public relations and marketing?
…yet many of those making such a claim express disgust at the broader idea that all lives must matter equally. How does one take that seriously?
The effective emotional claim repeatedly made is that society must value the lives of black people and yet many of those making such a claim express disgust at the broader idea that all lives must matter equally. How does one take that seriously? It sounds more like petulance where the demand is more that you share my slogan than share any real commitment to the value of human life.
I agree!