What Black Lives Matter Actually Believes

BLM isn't an organization that's specifically focused on racism, nor on police brutality, nor on racism in law enforcement. 

   I'm not sure how to characterize what BLM is about--but they do it themselves in about a page, so it's worth taking a look for yourself. 

   The page specifically cites the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown / Ferguson MO cases as inspirations. That's already a problem since neither case was, in fact, a case of racially-motivated murder, a fortiori neither was a police-perpetrated racially-motivated murder. By its own accounting, then, BLM is based on the progressive-media-created open season myth/lie. 

   As John McWhorter says in the video I posted, this is one of the ways you know it's a religion--there are facts that undermine it, but you're expected not to harp on them. You're expected just to kind of nod mutely and move on. O magnum mysterium! 

   There's a lot of emphasis on atypical sexualities and transgenderism. In fact, these seem to run a very close second to the racial themes.

   There's also some anti-nuclear family stuff.

   Complainers on the right often say the BLM is basically just another "cultural Marxist" organization. Not having thought about it all that much, I'd be inclined to say that this is a pretty decent first-ish take. BLM's goals seem to coincide a lot with general far-left goals of contemporary progressivism. 

   This makes the rising insistence that we all support BLM even less defensible/tolerable. Supporting BLM is not the same thing as being anti-racist--and not by a very long shot. Insisting that it is is a way to coerce people into a general acceptance of hard-left progressivism by conflating that whole quasi-theological, utopian-totalitarian package with mere opposition to racism.