Black Lives Matter rallies expose organisers as uncaring and destructive
Black Lives Matter rallies held across Australia will probably lead to a spike in coronavirus infections — exposing the protesting organisations for the uncaring and destructive bodies they are, writes Piers Akerman.
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Totally irrationally, local left-wing activists have seized on riots sparked by the death of a black man at the hands of a white police officer in the US to defy all health warnings and endanger communities across Australia with a probable spike in coronavirus infections.
This act of defiance exposes the protesting organisations for the uncaring and destructive bodies they are. Black Lives Matter — of course they do. Just as much as Asian, Eurasian, caucasian, you name it.
Organisers of protests in Australia include the feral Victorian outfit Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, one of whose leaders is on the record in 2018 as saying: “F. k Australia, I hope it burns to the f. king ground.”
The Communist Party of Australia is behind the NSW protest, and in Adelaide it’s a Trotskyist organisation, Adelaide Campaign Against Racism and Fascism.
The combined membership of the two groups probably wouldn’t breach the 50-patron ceiling imposed on pubs and clubs, but there are probably enough woke idiots wishing to flaunt their virtue to ensure widespread media coverage.
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Not that coverage of riots and protests is difficult to achieve when our ABC has given a platform to every supporter of the violent US demonstrations it can find.
Yesterday the AM program’s first question was to a black activist, who it asked: “Can organisers sustain the momentum?”
That would be the ABC’s wishful thinking that there will be sufficient momentum for further rallies, notwithstanding the massive looting that has taken place in Manhattan along with the tragic loss of several lives.
Waleed Aly must have choked when he noted last week that 58 per cent of American registered voters support “calling in the US military to supplement city police forces” in addressing the protests over George Floyd’s death.
Only 30 per cent opposed the proposal.
“Clearly, the protesters have a big obstacle to overcome with those they need to persuade … despite everything, the institutions of hard power, including the very ones that make up the ‘system’ they want to change, enjoy a high level of esteem,” Aly wrote despairingly in Nine newspapers.
He didn’t contemplate the possibility that the majority of Americans — just like Australians — prefer to live under a system in which the rule of law operates rather than riotous anarchy.
Nor do those on the left ever consider that it was under a Republican president that the US Civil War was mounted on the very issue of slavery and that it was the Southern Democratic states which rejected the abolition of slavery at the same time as they encouraged the establishment of the murderously racist Ku Klux Klan.
In the US, Senator Tom Cotton accidentally exposed the degraded editorial standards of the New York Times when that newspaper published an opinion piece he had written calling for military support for US police forces during periods of civil unrest.
After it appeared, James Bennet, the editor of the page, told colleagues he hadn’t read the article before publishing it. The newspaper has now endorsed protests although they will inevitably increase the number of coronavirus victims.
The responses to the rioting in the US and the protests here are indicative of a deep institutional problems in Western society more generally.
Through neglect of the education system and a breakdown in the traditional family structure, generations have no understanding of basic right and wrong, or the source of the freedom they enjoy when they exercise their right to protest — peacefully.
The left has encouraged a cult of victimhood and a dependence on the state since the ’60s. Nowhere have the results of this policy been as disastrous as in black communities, as politicians sought to create a constituency based on identity.
The rejection of this policy by middle-class black Americans, who have seen a black President, Supreme Court Justice, leader of the US military and countless black politicians at every level, is positive.
Media pandering to extremists, as the New York Times, our ABC and Nine have been doing, is counter-productive and demeaning and, thanks to the Wuhan virus, it is now also a health-threatening proposition — as well as being lousy journalism.