What is "Black Lives Matter"?

[Kutnupe14]

That's a pretty bold spot you've argued yourself into. To get there BLM = 1776 revolutionists or thereabouts. That's an interesting equivalency. I'm not going to go so far as saying the rioters are terrorists, but they definately aren't revolutionists for actual freedom either. either. They share some similarities with Islamic terrorists. They are duped and radicalized into an army of thugs. Useful idiots in the war of ideas.

The 1776 revolutionists didn't need to divide their countrymen politically to conquer them. In fact they weren't trying to conquer their fellow citizens of the land at all. I am not the crown. I am not the enemy. But BLM Leaders see me as that for no ther reason than because I'm white, and I don't care to indulge their fantasy that I am somehow complicit with their ancestors' enslavement, or that the free market system is inherently racist.

Would you say the original American colonies shared some similarities with ISIS?

 

[jamil]

The term "1776 to." Is cryptic.can you expound?

 

[Kutnupe14]

The term "1776 to." Is cryptic.can you expound?

As in "1776 until.... 'When'". The State sponsored terrorism. Keep in mind, I'm using "terrorism," not in the way I view it, but according to the litmus test that others have.

 

[hoosierdoc]

You didn't use 1492, that's racist

 

[Kutnupe14]

You didn't use 1492, that's racist

Ha, noted... but not very many Americans around back then.

 

[miguel]

I thought we agreed to use thugs instead of terrorists?

 

[chipbennett]

Someone doesn't know the definition of terrorism. Lol

I'll just leave this here.

ter·ror·ism
ˈterəˌrizəm/
noun

• the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
  
  

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Welcome back

 

[jamil]

As in "1776 until.... 'When'". The State sponsored terrorism. Keep in mind, I'm using "terrorism," not in the way I view it, but according to the litmus test that others have.

Well, okay, that's what I thought you meant. And that goes to my point. To make your point work the two would have to be equivalents. And they just aren't.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Well, okay, that's what I thought you meant. And that goes to my point. To make your point work the two would have to be equivalents. And they just aren't.

How so?

 

[indiucky]

How so?

The American's rebelling were seeking to start a new form of government loosely based upon ideas the early Greeks had mixed in with a "confederation" similar to what the Iroquois had accomplished in the north east United States....It was new...

ISIS is trying to go backwards and create a caliphate based upon one religion as practiced 1500 years ago...The original colonists seemed to want religion to be a personal choice while ISIS wants the caliphate to decide what religion everyone should be...

Plus ISIS has porn on their IPads and drive Toyota's.....Our boy's were stuck with "That there mountain kind of looks like a buxom breast don't you think?" and rode horses....

The colonists saw the past and thought it can be done better...ISIS looks at the past with nostalgia and want it back...

IMHO

 

[Leadeye]

Appalachians and Rockies.

 

[jamil]

How so?

I thought I had already made that clear. Perhaps Indiucky has made that clearer. To be a terrorist, one must terrorize. Who were the patriots terrorizing? Fighting for freedom from a political entity isn't terrorism in itself. The old saying "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" seems to be what you're getting at, but I've never thought of that saying as very accurate. It's only accurate as one cherrypicks attributes.

 

[indiucky]

Appalachians and Rockies.

I love Appalachia....

 

[printcraft]

Someone doesn't know the definition of terrorism. Lol

I'll just leave this here.

ter·ror·ism
ˈterəˌrizəm/
noun

• the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
  
  

"In other news..... A sad turn of events on the world stage today. The U.S.S. Kut was hit with a torpedo, it broke in half and sank with all hands up."

 

[Kutnupe14]

"In other news..... A sad turn of events on the world stage today. The U.S.S. Kut was hit with a torpedo, it broke in half and sank with all hands up."

The American Revolution seems like a pretty good example. It fits completely within the definition of terrorism. So I guess terrorism is in our heritage.

 

[printcraft]

The American Revolution seems like a pretty good example. It fits completely within the definition of terrorism. So I guess terrorism is in our heritage.

The british were terrorizing the colonists.


Are you advocating BLM start their own country some where?

 

[Kutnupe14]

The british were terrorizing the colonists.


Are you advocating BLM start their own country some where?

After the British were gone, the colonist started their own bit of terrorizing

Kut (thanks Printcraft for walking into that one)

 

[printcraft]

After the British were gone, the colonist started their own bit of terrorizing

Kut (thanks Printcraft for walking into that one)

Well yeah, it's easy to walk into something that doesn't exist.

 

[KLB]

The American Revolution seems like a pretty good example. It fits completely within the definition of terrorism. So I guess terrorism is in our heritage.

Armed rebellion is different than terrorism.

To your point above, if ISIS had stayed with trying to carve out a country of their own where they are, there would be some similarities. Instead they are attacking civilians in other countries. Did the American rebels blow up English civilians in jolly 'ole England?