Here's the Conservative Playbook for Tearing Down Black Lives Matter

[MrScorpio]

—By Brandon Ellington Patterson | Fri Sep. 4, 2015 6:00 AM EDT

In the wake of last Friday's murder of a Harris County, Texas, police deputy, Fox News pundits have bent over backward to find a way to connect the killing to the Black Lives Matter movement. A guest on the Fox talk show The Five on Monday called the movement a "criminal organization," and several hosts, including Bill O'Reilly, described it as a "hate group."

Harris County law enforcement officials have yet to determine a motive for the shooting, and suspect Shannon Miles had been found mentally incompetent to stand trial on a felony assault charge in 2012. But that hasn't stopped Fox News from showing a recent clip of protesters at the Minnesota State Fair chanting, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon," as pundits discussed the Texas killing, or from running inflammatory on-screen banners that read "Murder Movement" and "Black Lives Matter Taunts Cop Killings."

But this is not a new tactic from the right. Conservatives have long attempted to discredit black social movements by casting them as criminal. In fact, the law-and-order rhetoric they've espoused since the civil rights movement was invented to do just that.

In the 1950s, for example, Southern conservative lawmakers and law enforcement officials argued that acts of civil disobedience by black civil rights activists violated the law, and they criticized support for civil rights legislation as rewarding lawbreakers. Federal courts that struck down Jim Crow laws, they chided, were soft on crime.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/conservative-record-criminalizing-black-social-movements

[randys1]

1. BLM threatens to actually do something, mean something, bring to an end white privilege

and supremacy.

This scares the living shit out of people everywhere.

EVERYWHERE

I like that they dont apologize, and not sure what they have said about any shootings but all they have to say is:

"You want to connect killing of police to us but when police kill Black people you never look to connect a systemic problem within the policing community, and in those shootings there is no question who is shooting who - So no thanks, we wont answer to those shootings anymore than we will answer to any random, senseless crime anywhere"


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[mwrguy]

2. they are getting plenty of help from various "liberals"

[druidity33]

3. anyone in particular? nt.

[NuclearDem]

4. Some fairly vocal Sanders supporters immediately threw them under the bus.

Not a "sincere movement", Clinton/Soros conspiracy, Big Pharma conspiracy, antisemitism, "won't somebody think of the white people", etc.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. You know who has thrown activists under the bus on DU? Just about every fucking poster here

depending on who the activists are and what they are messing with. It's just a fact. LGBT activists have been under so many buses we have made a working headquarters in the undercarriage.
About 12 people on DU have always stood up for activists of the disruptive kind. I've just seen it and seen it and I think it is too important a subject to reduce to transient partisan political affiliations.
Anyone who takes life or death emergency politics and makes it about persons and camps is exploiting the issue, not supporting it.

[msanthrope]

8. You know, you are right. I'm sad I haven't been one of the 12. nt

[druidity33]

7. on this site?

I haven't seen anything that blatant here. I've seen a few allegations such as yours, and they're fairly unsupported. When i ask for a link to said "under the bus" posts i don't get them or they don't rise to the level of wrongness i was led to believe. BLM is a legitimate movement. Sometimes their tactics are questionable. I feel the same way about Code Pink, MoveOn, EarthFirst, etc. Just because someone questions an organizations tactics doesn't mean it's racist.

[Jamaal510]

6. K&R