Kickstarter on board with Black Lives Matter

[O2HeN2]

Just received this email:

From: Kickstarter <news@e.kickstarter.com>

The tragedies that took place in Baton Rouge, Minnesota, and Dallas last week were heartbreaking, and infuriating. Painfully, they are not events isolated to this moment. Racial inequality is systemic, racial prejudice is pervasive, and racial injustice is overwhelming. The unbearable atrocities they precipitate are far too frequent.

But that truth is not inevitable. Speaking up matters. Standing together matters. Peace and understanding and common purpose matter. We stand with #BlackLivesMatter, and with the friends and families of all those affected by these tragedies.

Please learn more and get involved here.

[O2HeN2]

What I can't figure out is why an organization that condones and promotes cop-killing hits the big time once it succeeds in getting cops killed in a spectacular manner?

Critical thinking is dead. Long live critical thinking.

O2

[Skip]

What I can't figure out is why an organization that condones and promotes cop-killing hits the big time once it succeeds in getting cops killed in a spectacular manner?

Critical thinking is dead. Long live critical thinking.

O2

Violence only delegitimizes "conservatives" and "patriots." It empowers Liberals. Sometimes they have to lie and hide affiliations but it's been this way frequently in history.

I think Mao said something profound about that once.

Wonder why they want our guns? Wonder no more...

[Delfuego]

What I can't figure out is why an organization that condones and promotes cop-killing hits the big time once it succeeds in getting cops killed in a spectacular manner?

I must have missed the press release for this. When exactly did they endorse this?

[O2HeN2]

I must have missed the press release for this. When exactly did they endorse this?

jslo, above, nailed it. You can dismiss a few people in any organization as whack jobs and not representing the organization as a whole (unless you're a liberal talking about the NRA), but when an entire crowd representing your organization is calling for cop killings, well, that's something different altogether:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj4ARsxrZh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNxoeqf0Ws

Q: Have you heard the organization denounce this position?

O2

[Delfuego]

You can dismiss a few people in any organization as whack jobs and not representing the organization as a whole (unless you're a liberal talking about the NRA)

You don't want all gun owners / 2a supporters to be lumped together, then don't lump other people together.

They are hardly an "Organization" either. It is a loose affiliation at best. People are responding to FB & twitter and showing up somewhere to protest or march. Some are pissed off and shout shit, some are frustrated with police in their neighborhood. I don't believe they were handed lyric sheets before the march. Nor do I believe there is a proper organizational hierarchy promoting the murder of policemen and women.

[brutal]

You don't want all gun owners / 2a supporters to be lumped together, then don't lump other people together.

They are hardly an "Organization" either. It is a loose affiliation at best. People are responding to FB & twitter and showing up somewhere to protest or march. Some are pissed off and shout shit, some are frustrated with police in their neighborhood. I don't believe they were handed lyric sheets before the march. Nor do I believe there is a proper organizational hierarchy promoting the murder of policemen and women.

As I saw and heard myself on The Kelly File last night, a leader in BLM on the panel called for the defunding and disbanding of all PD and said it should be left to the community to police themselves.

Because we all know how well inner city community self-policing is working.

[jslo]

You don't want all gun owners / 2a supporters to be lumped together, then don't lump other people together.

They are hardly an "Organization" either. It is a loose affiliation at best. People are responding to FB & twitter and showing up somewhere to protest or march. Some are pissed off and shout shit, some are frustrated with police in their neighborhood. I don't believe they were handed lyric sheets before the march. Nor do I believe there is a proper organizational hierarchy promoting the murder of policemen and women.

Seriously? This is a joke, right? You been away for the last couple years?

[roberth]

I wonder if these companies are getting threats if they don't get on board with the #blm racists...or maybe they're just being good little idiots.

[hurley842002]

Don't even know who/what kickstarter is, guess that's a good thing.