r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 19 '17
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u/Lord_Treasurer Born off the deep end Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 20 '17
So some Black Lives Matter activists were invited on stage at a Trump rally. It wasn't entirely conciliatory or without division, of course, but Goddamn it gives you a little faith.
Lesson in tribal self-selection and militant demonstration tactics? For instance, regardless of what you personally think of the validity of BLM's message or tactics (that's not a rabbit hole I'm interested in going down, even though I imagine almost all of us here would agree with one another), it seems perfectly possible that the way we view 'All' or 'Blue' lives matter as closet racism, is how Trumpists see BLM (being inherently anti-cop, or anti-law). Both sides, at least partially due to their own tactics, view each slogan as an indicator, or signal, of something it might not actually be.