{"id":24311,"date":"2017-07-08T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24311"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:01:23","slug":"blm-responds-to-nra-and-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/08\/blm-responds-to-nra-and-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM+ responds to NRA and White Supremacists"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen this horrid person in this horrid video calling for white people to take up arms and kill black people (and maybe Jews).<\/p>\n

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In this video, the NRA calls white supremacists to arms against everyone. In so many words.
<\/figcaption><\/figure>The ad uses mostly dog whistles, so if your head is stuck deep in the sand, or up some orifice or another, you may be able to block out the message.<\/p>\n

But anyone with 2+ neurons to rub together and who has not been living in a cave for the last 30 years knows the exact meaning of “clenched fist” and “I’m freedom’s safest place [gasp]” against the propaganda spread by the (here’s the part about the Jews) entertainment industry about how “them,” “them,” “them,” and “them” (insert visuals of uppity black people).<\/p>\n

I’m not going to link to that appalling ad. But it has been described as<\/a><\/p>\n

a … propaganda video disguised as a recruitment ad that takes aim at the Black Lives Matter movement and uses lies in order to whip its supporters into a frenzy and encourage them to take up arms to protect themselves from a supposed enemy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As activist Deray McKesson notes, “If I made a video like this, I’d be in jail<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Dignity and Power Now, The Reverence Project, RISIST, and Defend Movement produced the following powerful and true video in response to the NRA’s call to White Supremacy.<\/p>\n