\u201cYou can\u2019t make an omelet without breaking eggs.\u201d In George Orwell\u2019s day \u2014 the 1930s \u2014 that\u2019s what supporters of violent, Marxist revolution often said in justification.<\/p>\n
Orwell, the stunningly prescient author of\u00a0Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, had a simple response: \u201cWhere\u2019s the omelet?\u201d<\/p>\n An honest look at the omelet offered by Black Lives Matter is long overdue, particularly for BLM Chicago. What do they want? Do its supporters and apologists know?<\/p>\n Where\u2019s\u00a0their<\/em>\u00a0omelet?<\/p>\n In an interview about Black Lives Matter, its national co-founder Patrisse Cullors\u00a0said<\/a>, \u201cWe actually do have an ideological frame. \u201cMyself and Alicia [Alicia Garza, another co-founder] in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.\u201d<\/p>\n Chicago BLMers are likewise trained.<\/p>\n Watch the\u00a0video meeting<\/a>\u00a0they hosted last week titled, \u201cBlack Abolitionist Huddle: On How We Win Police Abolition.\u201d You will see that many of them are very fluent with Marxist rhetoric, particularly the modern version focused on toppling \u201clate stage capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n On Twitter, BLM Chicago said this, which you could imagine coming from a reincarnated, woke, twenty-something Vladimir Lenin:<\/p>\n Stay in the streets! The system is throwing every diversionary and de-mobilizing tactic at us. We are fighting to end policing and prisons as a system which necessitates fighting white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchial imperialism. Vet your comrades and stay focused.<\/em><\/p>\n That BLM Chicago video and its other statements should also put to bed lingering spin that its demand to defund police actually means just reimagining how policing works and partial redirection of resources.<\/p>\n They mean\u00a0abolish<\/em>\u00a0the police. That\u2019s their word for it.<\/p>\n Abolish prisons, too. Here\u2019s their\u00a0separate post<\/a>\u00a0on that.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t stop there. The entire Department of Corrections must end. On Twitter, BLM Chicago said,<\/p>\n We say\u00a0<\/em>#DefundThePolice<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>#DefundDepOfCorrections<\/em>\u00a0because they work in tandem. The rise of mass incarceration occurred alongside the rise of militarized and mass policing. They must be abolished as a system.<\/em><\/p>\n What they don\u2019t say is perhaps more important than what they say. There\u2019s no condemnation of violence. With BLM graffiti covering so much of Chicago, there\u2019s no doubt many members and supporters participated in the vandalism.<\/p>\n BLM\u2019s evolution with Marxism was described nicely by\u00a0The Federalist<\/a>\u00a0in 2016, which showed how parts of BLM\u2019s platform read like they were lifted straight from the pages of Karl Marx\u2019s Communist Manifesto. BLM faded in popularity around then and politicians began to shy away from mentioning it, mostly because of its controversial positions like that.<\/p>\n I know some of the apologists and supporters, and you may, too. Some marched. Some are friends. They are peaceful and principled just like most protesters were, genuinely fed up with racial inequality and police misconduct.<\/p>\n But they, too, must answer Orwell\u2019s question. Where\u2019s the omelet? More precisely,\u00a0what<\/em>\u00a0is the omelet they think BLM hopes to serve up? Why the indifference to support for a violent, Marxist revolution and the anarchy of abolishing police and prisons?<\/p>\n The least charitable explanations are that they are just foolish or uninformed \u2013 unaware of what BLM is about. Others understand fully and approve. Those explanations do account for some of BLM\u2019s support.<\/p>\n A more charitable explanation probably covers most who embrace BLM, which is that they seek only to make a statement about police misconduct and racial justice, and they might point to some of BLM\u2019s other deeds, like food banks.<\/p>\n \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d is also just a phrase, they might say might say; never mind the organization. And the organization has many chapters that aren\u2019t all singing the same tune. They might point to BLM\u2019s own Facebook page that says, \u201cThis group is one of many iterations of #BlackLivesMatter: a movement, a rebellion, an affirmation, an intervention\u2026 and so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n But that murkiness about phrasing, organization and diffused power is precisely what makes BLM dangerous. It allows peaceful protesters to be used as pawns who carry their signs and draw law enforcement away from rioters. It sucks in the well-intentioned but gullible, especially the young. Most importantly, its disbursed leadership and the vague distinction from an ambiguous phrase are the perfect cocktail for intoxicating society into the stupor essential for violent revolutions to succeed: chaos.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s put that more bluntly: Well-intentioned BLM supporters are getting had. The majority of those either using the BLM phrase or supporting the organization are being used on behalf of a violent, chaotic insurrection.<\/p>\n They are also supporting, deliberately or not, the nonviolent but vicious mob now running unchallenged across America.<\/p>\n Though twice as many Americans and a majority of black Americans\u00a0prefer<\/a>\u00a0the All Lives Matter phrase over Black Lives Matter, saying so can get you fired. Grant Napear, \u00a0a 32-year veteran TV voice of the Sacramento Kings, lost his job simply for saying, \u201cAll Lives Matter, every single one.\u201d<\/p>\n Similar stories now fill the news.<\/p>\n The poll therefore only highlights the size of the potential purge by the mob.<\/p>\n Tear down a statue of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson and spray it with BLM? No problem. The police stand aside. But questioning BLM will put your career and reputation at risk.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t expect BLM supporters to answer Orwell\u2019s question about the omelet they think they\u2019ll get from breaking some eggs because they see questions, too, as racist.<\/p>\n If you want Orwell\u2019s answer, here it is, from\u00a0Nineteen Eighty-Four:<\/em><\/p>\n Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.<\/em><\/p>\n One thing BLM says should be universally accepted, though for different reasons. \u201cSilence is violence,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n Indeed it is.<\/p>\n If the two-thirds of Americans who believe all lives matter continue to remain silent, expect more violence from many causes:<\/p>\n There\u2019s your omelet.<\/p>\n ___ Where\u2019s the Omelet? Black Lives Matter Chicago Answers George Orwell\u2019s Question – Wirepoints By: Mark Glennon* \u201cYou can\u2019t make an omelet without breaking eggs.\u201d In George Orwell\u2019s day \u2014 the 1930s \u2014 that\u2019s what supporters of violent, Marxist revolution often … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cullors.jpg\")
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