Yeah, totally. Discovering what is real, and what is actually meant by someone. That's kind of the best way to approach everything. I think some feminists do try to understand and take the right approach. I think that the name is confusing because we often get in our heads that benefiting one group or person must come at the expense of another, and that is true when it is done by force, but not true when it is done by voluntary action.
It is ok to be pro-white or pro-woman or to specifically seek to help out blacks, just as long as you don't privilege them with government favor or any other use of force to do it.
For example, the black American family has been systematically decimated by the incentives of the state. A movement to advance black people by voluntary exchange, mutual cooperation, self-reliance, and gun ownership, say something called a "Black Libertarian Movement," (God, please let that become a thing!) can easily be seen to be a good thing. A Marxist statist group aimed at using the state to force companies to prefer black workers and black narratives, on the other hand, is inherently racist because it uses force to treat blacks and all others differently. Such an evil organization might masquerade as something benign and call itself "Black Lives Matter."
Black Guns Matter is a thing 😊
While there is definitely some benefit in meeting people where they are, I still generally think focusing on race or sex or ethnicity has negative long term consequences. Let's say we create an organization of some sort that is crafted to help a particular race or group of people, what happens when things improve or they have been helped? Even if it is privately funded the incentive is to manufacture more problems or exaggerate things in order to chase more funding. Maybe to some degree it is just inevitable, but if you create an organization that is more broadly directed toward promoting responsible gun ownership for everyone then there's no reason it can't continue to help any minority or poorly armed/educated group (Black Guns Matter is actually a great name in that sense).
I generally agree with this perspective, but part of Black Guns Matter is specifically educating people about the racist roots of gun control.
And helping to teach & arm blacks from what I understand, but the play on words makes the organizarion something that could do more.
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Yeah, very good points. Oh, Black Guns Matter is a thing? Badass. Cheers!
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