{"id":2773,"date":"2020-06-12T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T10:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T09:56:40","slug":"the-black-lives-matter-movement-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"The Black Lives Matter Movement & Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The death of black male George Floyd on May 25th at\nthe hands of a white male police officer, Derek Chauvin, in the United States\nhas led to worldwide protests about police brutality and apparent systemic\nracism against Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) in Western\ncivilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is because, of course, as the Left would tell\nyou, in the US they have \u2018White Supremist\u2019 Donald Trump as their president and\nin Britain the fault lies with \u2018Mr Brexit\u2019 and \u2018Chief Gammon\u2019 himself, Boris\nJohnson and his army of little Englanders – the Conservatives who are in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this despite the fact that Mr Chauvin has been\narrested and charged with second and third-degree murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently however, it seems that all white people\nare guilty of unconscious bias against the BAME community; a result of their\ningrained \u2018white privilege.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This simplistic narrative has, of course, been dreamt\nup by an ever delusional Left that still hasn\u2019t learned how to console itself\nover Brexit, and Donald Trump\u2019s and Boris Johnson\u2019s election victories. It\nfurther demonstrates an ever-increasing chasm between their neo-Marxist\nideology and the people they purport to represent. In fact the whole\n#BlackLivesMatter movement is making idiots out of many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, and his deputy\ntook to their knee in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, tweeting\n\u201cWe kneel with those opposing anti-Black racism.\u201d Why kneel<\/em>? We used to stand\nup to<\/em> injustice and cruelty and stand alongside<\/em> people in our\nbattles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve also seen white people being chained up like\nslaves whilst wearing \u201cSo sorry\u201d T-shirts and being marched through the streets\nby black people on some sort of slave parade. Additionally, graffiti was\nsprayed on to Winston Churchill\u2019s statue in London, claiming \u2018Churchill was a\nracist\u2019; the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, even tweeted, \u2018The sad truth is that\nmuch of our wealth was derived from the slave trade\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this completely ignoring the history of the\nslave trade, and the fact that it was in the Christian West that slavery was\nfirst outlawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is fair to say, though, that racism does exist in\nwestern civilization. However, it simply is not systemic and it is not always\ndirected from the white majority towards the non-white minority. It is a far\nmore complex issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, we still have antisemitism, and there has been\nan increase in Sinophobia as a result of Covid-19. There is also very clear\nanti-white racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, in the ever gracious virtue signaling of the\nLeft, they can\u2019t see the irony of their own creed. For it is the Left that promotes\nthe terms \u2018white supremacy\u2019 and \u2018white privilege\u2019, fundamentally highlighting\nthat it is being white that is the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is racism, plain and simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, last year the term \u2018gammon\u2019 was used to\ndescribe white, middle-aged men. So now not only are the Left racist, they are\nageist as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this is inclusion, please allow me to be excused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On occasion it\u2019s important to try to understand this\nlunacy; to see if it stands up to scrutiny and logic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is \u2018white privilege\u2019 one may ask? Is it a\nprivilege to be born in white skin as opposed to non-white? Does being white\nmean that one can access the labour market more easily? Given the anti-discrimination\nlaws in the UK, these arguments defy logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One further argument goes that being white means that\none hasn\u2019t had to cope with regular racial harassment or had to overcome\nadditional challenges in society. Therefore, as a white person, one can\u2019t<\/em>\nsympathize with these kinds of difficulties a non-white person has had to grapple\nwith and overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, saying that a white person can\u2019t empathise with\nthe issues of a non-white person is like saying they can\u2019t be human. It\u2019s\nno different than saying Sadiq Khan couldn\u2019t empathise with Steve Jobs when he was dying of cancer. Or a\nPrime Minister\ncouldn\u2019t\nempathise with a school teacher. Or a Human\nRights lawyer couldn\u2019t empathise with a drugs dealer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coupled with this is the negative effect the rhetoric\ncould have on non-white people, discouraging them from believing that they can\nachieve great things if they set their mind to it and work hard. Why would they\nwant to try, if they are taught from a young age that the cards are systemically\nstacked against them? Despite the fact that this ignores the numerous occasions when\nblack people, or people of any race for that\nmatter, have come from a poor background in the western world and made a\nsuccess of their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. The ideas of \u2018while\nprivilege\u2019 and \u2018white\nsupremacy\u2019 are a leftwing mantra slightly adapted from\nterminology employed by Karl Marx who basically portrayed bourgeois bosses as\nslave keepers over workers. The new terminology has\nbeen deliberately constructed to create the same divisions in society with a supposedly\nutopian vision of the future as its goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society is not always fair. We are taught this from a young age and all religions teach it in a similar way. But society is not fundamentally cruel even though modern mantras portray it as such. The slogans of \u2018white supremacy\u2019 and \u2018white privilege\u2019 spread envy and hate. History taught us where this ends at least twice in the last century with the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we stopped this identity politics and had real deep and meaningful conversations about the problems our society face we would go a long way towards finding greater harmony in an often difficult world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The statue of former British prime minister Winston Churchill is seen defaced, with the words (Churchill) \u00ab\u00a0was a racist\u00a0\u00bb written on it’s base in Parliament Square, central London after a demonstration outside the US Embassy, on June 7, 2020, organised to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis. – Taking a knee, banging drums and ignoring social distancing measures, outraged protesters from Sydney to London on Saturday kicked off a weekend of global rallies against racism and police brutality. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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