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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
Reasonable take: Defunding the police and standing with oppressed people all over the world, including Palestinians, have always been fundamental tenants of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Brain rot: It seems this fleeting social media campaign has been "hijacked" for "political reasons", so regrettably we won't be supporting it anymore. Sad! – The BBC
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These are just a couple of the figures and corporations who are apparently being "forced to distance themselves" – as The Telegraph phrased it – from the movement, over concerns that it might actually stand for something more than a hashtag. We're all so fucking smooth brain at this point that we can watch weeks of mass protest footage and still not be able to conclude that Black Lives Matter "might be political".
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Grimes' doe-eyed defence of his interview with Starkey – who has, of course, said incredibly racist shit before – was that he "wasn’t engaged enough" to do anything. Good job that both these people don’t make a living being national media figures!Even our police forces have been slow on the uptake that a movement reacting to systemic racism and police brutality might want to fundamentally change policing in Britain. So far, the plods' best efforts to engage has been to Instagram their constables kneeling in "solidarity", before steam rolling into council estates and racially profiling people for walking their dog suspiciously.Hertfordshire Police recently u-turned on their stance of it being a "personal" choice for their officers to kneel, now saying that it isn't always "appropriate".Northumberland County Council even deleted all its posts on social media that supported Black Lives Matter, with Conservative councillor Peter Jackson quoted in The Telegraph as saying the movement had "definitely strayed into the political arena". Galaxy brain throbbing, he added that “when we get mindless vandalism, when we get talk of de-funding the police and attacks on the police, and when we get people effectively trying to rewrite history, it looks like a political movement to me".No matter how these consortiums of neoliberal cronies attempt to dilute, diminish and stifle these causes with bullshit stories like "BLM protesters want entire chessboards to be black", or attempt to pit oppressed minorities against each other, we would do well to remember that if a cause offered to change nothing, it would continue to have the undivided support of the status quo.Then, just when you thought our establishment couldn't have their finger further off the pulse, our Prime Minister literally suggested we should "clap for bankers who make our NHS possible".At this point, I would say it would be generous to suggest Britain has a pulse to finger. We are a degrading, farting corpse that flatlined out of reality a long time ago.@MULLET_FAN_NEO