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Black Lives Matter Philly Bans White People From Its Meetings

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Black Lives Matter Philly banned white people from an upcoming event, claiming it is a “black only space.”

The April 15 meeting plans to discuss projects and initiatives for the upcoming year and act as a place for people to “meet, strategize and organize.” While children are invited to attend, white people are explicitly banned from the meeting, according to the Facebook event page.

When people began questioning the ban on whites over Twitter, Black Lives Matter Philly stayed by their ban, explaining that their meetings are “black centered.”

Anyone who identifies as “African disapora” is allowed to attend, the group explained over Twitter.

Read more: White People Banned From Philly BLM's Next Meeting | The Daily Caller
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Remind me who the racists are again?
 
Erod said:
Remind me who the racists are again?
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Are whites oppressed as a group throughout social sectors? I must have missed the memo.
 
Erod said:
Remind me who the racists are again?
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Remind me again why anyone ever thought these idiots who discourage allies and thumb their noses at civility were going to be agents of positive change....
 
ecofarm said:
Are whites oppressed as a group throughout social sectors? I must have missed the memo.
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Is your argument that people are free to be pricks if they are victims, cause it sounds like....
 
Erod said:
Remind me who the racists are again?
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"The" racists are whichever group happens to outrage you in the present moment? So if I linked to an article focusing on White Supremacists, would they be "the" racists again?

Anyway, I don't think it necessarily best serves a group's interests to be racially exclusionary. You can be white and recognize the inherent value behind BLM's message and lend your support to it. To exclude white people sends the message that white people aren't able and aren't welcome to support Black Lives Matter, and I don't see how that's helpful to them at all.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Is your argument that people are free to be pricks if they are victims, cause it sounds like....
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Pathetic.

Minority groups, even exclusive ones, are not racist. They empower the disadvantaged.
 
Cardinal said:
"The" racists are whichever group happens to outrage you in the present moment? So if I linked to an article focusing on White Supremacists, would they be "the" racists again?

Anyway, I don't think it necessarily best serves a group's interests to be racially exclusionary. You can be white and recognize the inherent value behind BLM's message and lend your support to it. To exclude white people sends the message that white people aren't able and aren't welcome to support Black Lives Matter, and I don't see how that's helpful to them at all.
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Given the objective of this particular meeting, one of thousands, is to establish perspective, there's nothing wrong with it. Whites are, in fact, welcome in the movement. You will not find a white BLM supporter who does not understand this or that denounces the meeting.
 
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I find it interesting that it's called "April Open Meeting" ...... but closed to anyone who doesn't fit this very specific description.
 
Erod said:
Remind me who the racists are again?
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All sides, ethnic groups, religious groups, races, ect all over the place have racists.
 
ecofarm said:
Given the objective of this particular meeting, one of thousands, is to establish perspective, there's nothing wrong with it. Whites are, in fact, welcome in the movement. You will not find a white BLM supporter who does not understand this or that denounces the meeting.
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Of course they won't denounce it, but there will be some who feel excluded, even if they understand.
 
Fishking said:
Of course they won't denounce it, but there will be some who feel excluded, even if they understand.
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The purpose of this meeting, one in thousands, is to establish black perspective. Whites have no place.
 
ecofarm said:
The purpose of this meeting, one in thousands, is to establish black perspective. Whites have no place.
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Does that negate what I said?
 
Fishking said:
Does that negate what I said?
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Yes. Understanding it is understanding that. If some people want to be idiots and feel excluded when their presence would be counter-productive they're, well, idiots who don't understand.

If a group against police brutality wanted to establish the white perspective on police brutality, and limited one meeting of thousands to whites, that would be fine.
 
ecofarm said:
Pathetic.

Minority groups, even exclusive ones, are not racist. They empower the disadvantaged.
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The only ones that believe this are those that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
 
Kal'Stang said:
The only ones that believe this are those that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
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Nice try. Do you always take the racist position?
 
ecofarm said:
Yes. Understanding it is understanding that. If some people want to be idiots and feel excluded when their presence would be counter-productive they're, well, idiots who don't understand.
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*shrug* Oh kay...you can stick with that. I'll stick with people can feel excluded, even if they understand.
 
ecofarm said:
Nice try. Do you always take the racist position?
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Haha...you called him a racist. That means you win! 60% of the time it works every time.
 
Fishking said:
*shrug* Oh kay...you can stick with that. I'll stick with people can feel excluded, even if they understand.
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You don't know anything about this. You don't understand what's going on. You're just projecting your ignorance onto others.
 
Fishking said:
Haha...you called him a racist. That means you win! 60% of the time it works every time.
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I called his position racist. And it is. I think he can play the victim card himself and doesn't need you to do it for him.
 
Beaudreaux said:
He's not the one making overtly racist comments in this thread.
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The establishment of a minority perspective is not racist. Nor is the establishment of any perspective within a larger context of concern.

You think whites can provide black perspective on police violence against blacks? It's not their place.
 
ecofarm said:
You don't know anything about this. You don't understand what's going on. You're just projecting your ignorance onto others.
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Uh huh...keep telling yourself you have special knowledge, oh wise one.
 
ecofarm said:
I called his position racist. And it is. I think he can play the victim card himself and doesn't need you to do it for him.
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Yeah, yeah...we all know the trick of talking about the person's post instead of them as a work-around.
 
ecofarm said:
The establishment of a minority perspective is not racist. Nor is the establishment of any perspective within a larger context of concern.

You think whites can provide black perspective on police violence against blacks? It's not their place.
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If the purpose of the perspective is to exclude others based solely on their race ("... establish black perspective. Whites have no place ..."), then yes, it's racist.
 
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