I'm honestly surprised that number is so low. Asking someone if they support BLM is basically a thinly veiled threat - give the right answer or be labeled a tribal. Conflating extremists with the group they claim to represent - feminists did the same stuff.
There are so many young people who align perfectly with the group and
self-identify as members - who are also completely non-violent students. I'd also imagine that Pew Research administered their survey in a setting where respondents weren't being coerced to give a certain answer, because that would ruin their data, wouldn't it?
What I am against is the concept of cultural marxism - dividing everyone up into oppressors and oppressed. I'm against defining yourself as a victim simply because of your skin color.
I talk a lot about systems of victimization on here, but the power of an individual is a lot different than a group. If you victimize yourself as a person, you are missing out on so many opportunities that you could have taken advantage of with more persistence. With enough effort, it is possible for almost every
individual in a historically oppressed group to achieve many of their goals. Individual lives have way more variance than large groups of people.
But at the same time, it's important to understand that when you look at large groups, there are systems of oppression in place. People who don't look at these systems are the same people that cite black crime statistics and say, "Well, it's because they're blacks!" instead of looking at all the history that forms a completely coherent explanation for why statistics exist as they do. It doesn't mean to understand oppression because you want to self-victimize, but to understand how things actually work in our country.
stuff like "racism = prejudice + power" which also conveniently defines "power" as being white, so black people are never tribal even when they're setting a reporter on fire because he's white.
I've known for a long time that redefining racism as 'prejudice + power' is a way for people to switch the definition so that oppressed groups cannot be accused of racism. Frankly, I think it's bullstuff, because although racism is more
damaging when perpetrated by a group in power, it's not alright just because a black person is doing it. The ultimate problem here is the pattern of thought. So we're pretty much on common ground about that.
Don't even try to pull that "bad eggs" argument on that one, the prejudice+power gambit is main stream.
It's pretty popular in the more gung-ho activist circles, but I'd say there's even more overlap with the people who want to segregate activist meetings and college residence halls by race, which is totally ridiculous. It's definitely not a perfect movement by any means, although no movement is.
