{"id":2965,"date":"2020-07-26T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/26\/blm-is-playing-by-the-book-alinskys-book\/"},"modified":"2020-07-26T12:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:59:29","slug":"blm-is-playing-by-the-book-alinskys-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/26\/blm-is-playing-by-the-book-alinskys-book\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM is Playing by the Book. Alinsky’s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Brown:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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In his insightful, 2009 mini-book, Barack Obama\u2019s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model<\/em>, David Horowitz quoted an SDS radical who wrote, \u201cThe issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As Horowitz explained, \u201cIn other words the cause \u2014 whether inner city blacks or women \u2014 is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power<\/em> to make the revolution<\/em>. That was the all-consuming focus of Alinsky and his radicals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to BLM, the purported issue, namely, that Black Lives Matter, is not the ultimate issue. Instead, a larger cultural revolution is the ultimate issue. (As many have noted<\/a>, the founders of BLM are both Marxists and radical feminists<\/a>, with two of the three women identifying as queer activists.)<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, the mantra that \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d specifically means blacks who are victims of white police brutality. Black lives in the womb do not matter. Blacks getting gunned down in gang violence do not matter. Black toddlers killed in random shootings do not matter. Not even blacks killed by black police officers matter \u2014 at least not nearly as much as blacks killed by white officers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those white officers, in turn, represent the larger system, which, we are told, is fundamentally racist. And it is that system that needs to be overthrown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, \u201cThe issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>, comrades.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Brown: In his insightful, 2009 mini-book, Barack Obama\u2019s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model, David Horowitz quoted an SDS radical who wrote, \u201cThe issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.\u201d As Horowitz explained, \u201cIn other words the cause \u2014 whether inner city blacks or women \u2014 is never the real … Continue reading “BLM is Playing by the Book. Alinsky’s Book”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}