BLM are a divisive political group with dangerous ideas that hijacked Floyd’s death. And funny how most of them you see on demos are white!!
It is all really dispiriting. I feel there’s been a lot of division sown by the identity politics of recent years that became turbocharged over the summer. The sleight of hand in templating undeniable problems in America onto British society are frankly unjustified. We have come on immeasurably in this area since the 1980s. And, counter-productively, the emergence of this divisive aggressive brand of identity politics has given a shot in the arm to the moribund rump of racists here who can exploit it in a reactionary way. Issues and inequalities that we would have until quite recently considered to be a class-based are now being racialised. But there’s no discernible "white privilege" on the council estates of Gateshead Sunderland Middlesborough Glasgow etc etc
We’ve gone away from innocent, wide-eyed melting pot idealism to a nasty separatism, underlined by absurd Critical Race Theory ideas as “cultural appropriation”, and the endless grievance-mining for guff like "microagressions". The kneeling thing jars for many of us because it represents this divisive, separatist ideology, even though many who approve and kneel are undoubtedly doing it for what they consider are the right reasons.
