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Black Lives Matter has taken offense at police saying “Blue Lives Matter” and others who say “All Lives Matter,” but now a Wisconsin school is risking ire by branding a class on environmentalism “Green Lives Matter.”
The course at University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will encourage students to support the “environmental justice movement” by “the merging of civil rights and environmental concerns.” But even Scott Furlong, the dean of social sciences at the school, acknowledged that the class name plays on what has become a loaded term.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @02:14AM
Did they reach Super Saiyan level? Why wasn't the press notified?
In the long view of the world, there has been a general move towards greater justice for all.
In that respect BLM, simply joins critics of Ruby Ridge and Waco in pointing out the excesses of the police.
And my only comfort is that there are still people clear-headed enough to recognize this instead alienating concerns through the lens of identity politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:57AM
> Why wasn't the press notified?
A Movement for Black Lives Creates a Policy Platform, Signaling a New State for the Coalition [theatlantic.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @05:28AM
But other ideas, including demands to add special protections for trans, queer, and gender-nonconforming people to anti-discrimination laws, a call for free education for black people, and a proposal to implement black economic cooperatives, haven’t previously been spelled out quite this clearly
Why didn't they ask for ponies and rainbows as well?
Yup, exactly the same mishmosh of half-baked proposals that doomed Occupy Wall Street into irrelevancy.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:56PM
I think The Atlantic wasn't clear enough there. Here's from the actual platform [m4bl.org]:
We believe in elevating the experiences and leadership of the most marginalized Black people, including but not limited to those who are women, queer, trans, femmes, gender nonconforming, Muslim, formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and working class, differently-abled, undocumented, and immigrant. We are intentional about amplifying the particular experience of state and gendered violence that Black queer, trans, gender nonconforming, women and intersex people face. There can be no liberation for all Black people if we do not center and fight for those who have been marginalized. It is our hope that by working together to create and amplify a shared agenda, we can continue to move towards a world in which the full humanity and dignity of all people is recognized.
Going from The Atlantic's summary, in general it reminded me of the days/principles of Kwanzaa [wikipedia.org], notably ujamaa. Here's all of 'em:
Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.