Posted on 08/10/2016 12:16:01 AM PDT by oblomov
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
OCCUPY WALL STREET AND ITS DETRITUS may have faded from the nation’s public parks, but experienced far-left organizers are ecstatic over the influence of a new movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM). Founded in 2013 around the death of Floridian Trayvon Martin, BLM has within its grasp the radical revolutionary goals the Bill Ayers activists of old, and more recent new class of far-left operatives, had before now been unable to attain. The Frontier Lab’s in-depth research, gained through unanticipated access to organizers, activists, and allies of BLM, deconstructs the movement’s appeal and what the implications for marketers of freedom.
This report details our findings, including these TOP 10 INSIGHTS:
• Black Lives Matter’s core message is built upon, depends upon, and has as its ultimate goal, the larger retelling of the American story as one of oppression and racism.• The police, as representatives of the state, must be framed as exemplifying the Black Lives Matter framing by being themselves oppressive and racist.
• Black Lives Matter frames their cause as one against a systemic problem and necessarily utterly rejects the “one bad apple” counterargument.
• BLM relies upon the elevation and equating of other underprivileged groups to a status “just as oppressed” as Black America in order to build a narrative of an America divided into the “Oppressed and the Privileged.” For this reason causes such as undocumented workers, LGBTQ, and women’s reproductive rights, are recruited and welcomed into the “Allies” category of supporters (see below).
• Supporters of BLM, for the most part, have moved on from desiring to silence dissent through amending free-speech laws; instead, Black Lives Matter (1) pressures authorities to do it for them, (2) creates an atmosphere of intimidation through threats of violence and shows of force, and (3) incorporates a culture of self-censorship in which those with “privilege” have a lesser voice than the oppressed.
• While social-media and cameras are utilized uniquely and effectively to communicate with and recruit new supporters, it is the framework of organizing learned from past attempts and overarching metanarrative that in reality gives Black Lives Matter its edge. There are three distinct segments of supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, each with their own emotional pathways to a deeply felt connection: Activists, Allies, and Operatives. These mental maps explain current reasons for support as well as provide strategic pathways for weakening that same support.
• Common across all segments is the emotion of fear of being ostracized from the left’s cultural community.
• The specificity of the cause – injustice toward the Black community – is both central to its appeal and also a window into an Achilles-heel weakness of the movement’s core positioning.
• The movement is at a critical juncture in its lifecycle, with maximum cultural influence but having failed to transition this influence into policy impact.
THE RESULT: we have uncovered key insights marketers of freedom need to understand in order to predict and plan for how their ideas will compete with an alternative framing of the American story. As young people continue to gravitate toward mass-movement, anti-freedom principles, it is imperative to de-market the appeal of these dangerous ideologies that threaten the future of America.
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BLM is simply a reboot of OWS.
OWS is a reboot of Answer which is a reboot of Acorn.
How do you get through to people that without freedom, they could be arrested and "disappeared" for speaking out against the government? How do you get them to understand that power for leftists elites does NOT equal power for common people?
What is the underlying rationale for their hatred of freedom, anyway? Conversely, do they truly understand oppression, and can they even begin to imagine what life would be like in the totalitarian dictatorship they long for?
Thus, BLM is nothing more than neo-Marxism. SSDD.
Great find.
They hate real freedom because they believe sexual freedom, and the freedom to kill babies, are the only freedoms that matter.
Since these people WANT to be able to arrest and disappear people with whom they disagree, they cannot be reasoned with. They don’t quite understand that they might be victims of this as well, and, depending their level of fanaticism, might not care.
The author gets that. What she is analyzing is why these young people would advocate anti-freedom philosophy and authoritarian policy in the name of “fighting oppression”. The reasons are somewhat distinct across the different segments of BLM followers.
The goals the Bill Ayers, as implemented by Barack Obama via his street muscle: BLM et al.
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