The Mass Psychosis of Black Lives Matter
What was the most demented moment of the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020, asks Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner. For him, it was “when 1,200 public health officials declared that, although meeting other people was a health risk, especially if you were protesting the lockdowns, demonstrating in support of BLM was fine”. Here’s an excerpt.
Few dared speak out against this obvious madness. Being the only sane person during a spasm of collective psychosis is dangerous, and it truly was a collective psychosis, triggered by months of confinement, with people poring over their screens instead of going out with friends.
Almost every organisation joined the bedlam. Congressional Democrats knelt in Ghanaian stoles for 8 minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck. The New York Stock Exchange observed an eight-minute silence.
McDonald’s changed its name on all social media platforms to “Amplifying Black Voices”’ Apple replaced its music app radio stations with a single stream playing N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police” on repeat. Lego cancelled advertising for its police-related toys. Woe betide you if you did not post a black square on June 2nd 2020, to mark #BlackOutTuesday. …
Britain went every bit as bonkers as the United States, from the Royal Family down. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, then leader of the Opposition, took the knee, as did every Premier League soccer player at the start of matches. Oxford University granted black students extra time on their exams. Bookshops replaced their usual stock with Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility and Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist. Even British children’s shelves were filled with nagging morality tales.
The BBC, like CNN, lost all self-awareness. Its presenters gabbled about “mainly peaceful protests” while viewers watched footage of burning buildings and injured police officers. People lost their jobs for saying ‘All Lives Matter’, which is about the most uncontroversial statement imaginable in normal times. One retired policeman actually went to prison for posting a tasteless joke about Floyd in a private WhatsApp group.
Ten billion dollars were poured into the coffers of BLM and BLM-adjacent outfits without anyone daring to ask what it would be used for. … To this day, no one has much idea of where the $10 billion went or who has it now.
We’re currently living through an anti-woke backlash and much of the overreach is being rolled back. But Hannan remains pessimistic for the future: “The needle never quite moved back to where it was. … Leftists sometimes talk of a ‘long march through the institutions’, but in truth, it is a long Foxtrot with occasional backward steps.”
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No psychosis at all
We live in a state of anarchy in which we are forced into the “protection” of the state, subjected by an illusion of power that every so often is pierced when the population momentarily coalesces around a particular issue in enough numbers to overpower the state.
That’s what happened in the summer of 2020.
State power saw itself threatened and overwhelmed and made the calculation to go along with the coalesced masses rather than confront it and risk losing total control.
So they went on a virtue signalling spree which they will never be able to live down.
So BLM in the summer of 2020 was a confluence of masses in rioting mood after the abuse of lockdowns and state power feeling threatened and vulnerable making a very calculated move.
I just saw it as a continuation of the anti white agenda that had been in train for decades
The question is still why would white people promote an anti-white agenda?
The white ruling powers, because they want to appease and harness the brown(ish) mob.
The white part of the mob, because they see it as a way to take out their rage.
That’s my theory, anyway.
White guilt
Utopianism as a replacement for religion
Divide and conquer
Grifting opportunities
Socialists aka control freaks need victim groups to harness since the working class are deserting them
The ruling class fear the working class
I believe they or future generations of the cheerleaders for The Great Replacement will regret it
All plausible.
I guess ultimately there is at root an element of madness that white people would actively discriminate against themselves.
It seems utterly mad to me and ultimately I think many will regret it but I won’t live to see that
My children might
I’ve not said much about this to my kids- I don’t have the heart to depress them, even though they are grown up and long since flown the nest
The prestigious Smithsonian created the following ‘perspective’ on ‘whiteness’.
The opposite to whites would be interesting if you took it literally!
Yes indeed!
Thanks – I remember that now.
We’ve been trained not to reason, see my note below and watch the video on YouTube, I don’t think you will be disappointed.
Well, just like the Covid crisis was an eye opener and revealed the latent totalitarian tendencies hiding behind the facade of the “democratic” west, the BLM riots were also an eye opener about the hidden motives of the anti racist movement.
It was the moment that anti-Whitism came out into the open, and was celebrated by our governments.
Yes, and the very same Starmer whose response to Ethnic African rioters was to BEND THE KNEE, is now urging White British Youth to PREPARE FOR WAR with Russia.
— “I know many of you will die in this war, but for me, it’s a price worth paying…”
Too true.
But to try to salvage my worthless career it’s a price worth paying.
Fixed it for you.
Yes, he’s quite happy to send White Men to die, as long as it’s not him or his own children or relatives.
One commenter offered to pay for his military gear to send him off to fight Russia instead of our boys.
Another said he just wants to set up new military veterans for future prosecutions, to make him and his lawyer/judge friends pots of money.
Anti whitish yes, but also the agenda leading to the calculated, deliberate destruction of mankind’s greatest achievement to date, western civilization.
To be fair the start of the decline can be be dated quite clearly to August 1914, but since 1997 in the UK at least it has accelerated exponentially.
Thanks to Will Jones & the DS for giving us a summary of Daniel Hannan’s article.
Especially now that the first Ethnic African & Muslim rioters who set fire to Paris last week have been let off:
Slap on the Wrist: Paris Rioters Avoid Jail With Suspended Sentences
by Kurt Zindulka for Breitbart
“The first cohort of young men charged in the violent riots in Paris last weekend were all let off without any prison time, despite all having admitted to attacking police officers, and President Macron’s vow to bring those involved to justice.”
So if the British Protesters Against the Murder of Children had set 700 fires like the Paris Rioters Against France, instead of just giving their opinions in a tweet like Lucy Connolly, would they have been let off?
Yeah lucky for them they didn’t try to organise using X
BLM Protests Proved Covid Was Fake
WTF is this? ”Zia Yusuf, who resigned as Reform UK chairman on Thursday, is to return to work for the party in a new role. Yusuf will lead what the party calls its “Doge team” – which is modelled on the Department of Government Efficiency set up by US President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Yusuf quit the party, saying working to get it elected was no longer “a good use of my time”, without expanding further. On Saturday, Reform leader Nigel Farage told the BBC that Yusuf will now take on a more public role for the party in a new role, appearing more frequently in the media. Before his resignation, Yusuf had criticised Sarah Pochin, who won last month’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election for the party. She urged Sir Keir Starmer to ban the burka “in the interests of public safety” during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday. Yusuf said it was “dumb for a party to ask the PM if they would do something the party itself wouldn’t do”. A burka ban is not Reform party policy. Farage told the BBC that Yusuf, who is a Muslim, “gets even more racial abuse on X than ever” when Islam is… Read more »
It’s not surprising, we’ve been living under a kind of false existence for the past 30 years, everything has been distorted, government and international policy, lies being told by western governments and the media as to what is really going on in the world.
i think this is kind of relevant, Jeffrey Sachs is talking about foreign policy post soviet era and the way the truth was manipulated up to this very day. People in the western world have been conditioned into a form of denial because almost everything they’ve been told is a lie. I think perhaps it’s coming to an end and this is really worth listening to in full. There are big changes coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3JuKwZY10c
One example with inevitable results of ‘defund the police’. Who’d of thought?
Don’t forget this traitor.
These idiots are in power all over Europe and coincidentally all the major countries are in crisis, here’s Alice Weidel at CPAC2025.
There is also a video of Orban in a talk with “dissidents”. These fools are on the way out and it’s really a matter of how much damage the useless fools can cause before they are kicked out.
Here’s the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSvlIN-W_w8
Starmer said nothing about the desecration of the cenotaph. That I cannot forgive – not BLM, nor Starmer.
It’s all about black people being racist to white people