Posted on 06/21/2016 9:07:31 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
While conservatives identify the Orlando massacre as an Islamic terrorist attack and the left blames a variety of factors including conservatives and guns, the Black Lives Matter movement has published its own unique perspective on the cause of this atrocity.
"Despite the media's framing of this as a terrorist attack, we are very clear that this terror is completely homegrown, born from the anti-Black white supremacy, patriarchy and homophobia of [sic] the conservative right and of those who would use religious extremism as a weapon to gain power for the few and take power from the rest."
Although the Orlando killer had been investigated by the FBI as a possible terror threat, and despite his declaration of allegiance to ISIS during the attack, Black Lives Matter emphatically asserts that, "The enemy is now and has always been the four threats of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and militarism. These forces and not Islam create terrorism."
The group repeatedly rejects the notion that Islamic doctrine motivated the murderer. "We will not allow a false narrative of 'Islamic terrorism' to be dictated by white supremacists and corporate media." While denying any linkage between the attack and Islam, the article also states, "Religious extremism is not new to America and is not unique to Islam. For centuries, religion has been used to subjugate queer people of color and lay the groundwork for our deaths."
Even the left's attempt to restructure the public discourse into an argument about gun control fails to satisfy Black Lives Matter:
"We will not allow our movement to be dominated by white progressives that still attempt to define our solutions and limit our leadership. We will not allow the vision to be stunted by a gun control agenda with neither racial context nor a clear history of the relationship between white supremacy and guns in the United States."
The article further explains that while Black Lives Matter agrees with the calls for gun control, "You cannot decry guns without also decrying how those guns were used to take Native land, to enslave Black bodies, to remake 'Latin America,' and to redefine the western hemisphere. We need more than legislation, more than vigils and prayers, more than donations — we need a deep transformation at the cellular levels of this nation."
Part of this crusade for societal "transformation," includes the mainstreaming of LGBTQ lifestyles. Black Lives Matter’s LGBTQ agenda appears in the title of its article: "In Honor of Our Dead: Latinx, Queer, Trans, Muslim, Black — We Will Be Free." The term "Latinx," represents a gender-neutral form of the word Latino/Latina.
Black Lives Matter’s article about the Orlando massacre does not comport with the available facts of the case, it only echoes the movement's preexisting ideology.
Alex Nitzberg is an intern at the American Journalism Center at Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Wow, BLM is really delusional.
[facepalm]
And the IQ of a rock
They forgot heterosexuality.
US Non-FOX Mainstream Media happy goes along with this analysis!!!
(IF they want to keep those cushy, high-paying jobs, that is)
It has to be at odds with the facts when it’s communistic, racist and on the side of Islamic socialists (fellow travelers pro tempore). Never mind founded by “trans-racial” fake goons.
This isn’t stupidity. Its an almost unbelievable level of self-centeredness. They were taught to view EVERYTHING — and I mean everything — through the lens of their own experience. And they do to the point of excluding everything except their own experience. The cook could burn their steak at a restaurant and White Supremacy, Patriarchy and Capitalism would be the reason.
They didn’t. It was attacked by their mention of so-called “homophobia”.
Take your BLACK LIVES MATTERS B.S. and shove it so far up your butts, you’ll never EVER see day light again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BLM is TERRORISM !!
Satan is alive and doing well in the BLM movement as well as the democratic party.
Black Lives Matter is an organization composed of racists and Useful Idiots.
The Useful Idiots are the well meaning (or not so well-meaning) people who put up the signs in their yards and turn out for the candlelight vigils.
The racists are the ones at the top pushing it.
Any BLM activity going on in the Dotte? Been gone from the Northland for almost 3 yrs.
They forgot climate change!
FAIL!
Not all that unexpected for a domestic terrorist organization like BLM.
Okay, that settles it. Press release was probably written by white folks.
No, this is a smart move for BLM. They know that the Obama administration will not speak out against Islam, but regularly speaks out against white Americans.
They are just further aligning their (BLM) with Obama/Hillary and lining their own pockets.
BLM knows that they are full of crap. They also know how much money can be made off of it.
Shaun King types, agreed. Or otherwise.
The blm crowd = obama = radical marxism = destroy America crowd.
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