I've never understood why 'Black Lives Matter' is such a 'divisive' slogan. It's not the kind of statement that one would assume implies its contrapositive. What I don't like is the attempt to make it--'Black Lives Matter' specifically, those three words specifically--a shibboleth on the left the same way 'radical Islamic terrorism' is on the right. It smacks of something that's becoming a thought-terminating cliché. It's not like we're trying to ascertain whether a valid baptism happened or something.
As I've been bleating on for the past few days, it's problematic that activist types now react to "all lives matter" in the same manner as one might react to the n-word.
BLM, left-wing identitarians, and their white liberal cohorts (aka "woke" people) helped drag down the Democrats this election. They may wreak further havoc yet. I can't help but feel, as I said to a friend the other day, that while I'm slowly moving towards the Democrats, the Democratic party is running in leaps and bounds away from me. Many moderate liberal friends of mine have expressed similar sentiment.
Wokeness is a disease. Identity politics, of both the left and right, must be consigned to the trasheap of history. Otherwise this country may very well prove unable to hold together. Ellison, if he wins, will soon find himself the latest victim of the circular firing squad mentality if nothing is done to rectify this.
In short, the Democratic Tea Party will be
these people.
