Monday, June 22, 2020

More Than Just "Black Lives" [Updated]

A lot of frum people have sided with the BLM movement. They [the BLM'ERS] present 13 principles in which they believe. י"ג עיקרי אמונה if you will - להבדיל אלף אלפי הבדלות. Here are some: 

Empathy

We are committed to practicing empathy; we engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.

Funny - where was their empathy when they were destroying the lives and businesses of innocent black people?

Loving Engagement

We are committed to embodying and practicing justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.

I TOTALLY get that they are peaceful. All those videos of them wrecking the country in the most violent ways really shows how they embody true peace. 

Queer Affirming

We are committed to fostering a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking or, rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless s/he or they disclose otherwise.

"Heteronormative" - GOOD WORD!!

Trans Affirming

We are committed to embracing and making space for trans brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are committed to being self-reflexive and doing the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

When I would take the bus in the city, I would get a "transfer". So I identify on some level with "trans". 

We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement. 

In other words - they want to destroy this TERRIBLE "western-prescribed" concept of a father, mother and children. They instead want to have black "villages" as they explain there. Sort of like the old time kibbutzim where the children would all live together, separate from the parents. [And of course it almost goes w/o saying that they favor the right of people to change partners at will].   

I also saw a video of the leader of the BLM movement [who has the worst haircut of all time] and she affirmed that they are Marxists. In their platform they call each other "comrades" ala the communist shprach


And by the way, here is what their leader, Karl the Shmarl, had to say about Jews: 


Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.[...] The Jew has emancipated himself in a Jewish manner, not only because he has acquired financial power, but also because, through him and also apart from him, money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as the Christians have become Jews. [...] In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.

[On The Jewish Question 1843] 

So again - NOBODY argues that Black Lives Matter [except for a few white hooded KKK dudes]. This movement is about a LOT more than that.