What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
user
It’s a movement that claims to be working to advocate and advance for justice, particularly for people of color. There’s a lot of debate about what exactly it means, but in practice it has done some good things, and some things that were actively harmful.
assistant
What has it done that was harmful?
user
The movement was protesting a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the protests there, a counter-protester was attacked, and a lot of people blamed the anti-racist demonstrators for not stopping the violence. In the following weeks, there was a lot of damage done to anti-racist rallies around the country.
assistant
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
user
It’s a movement that claims to be working to advocate and advance for justice, particularly for people of color. There’s a lot of debate about what exactly it means, but in practice it has done some good things, and some things that were actively harmful.
assistant
What has it done that was harmful?
user
Well, I would consider: I feel this is a form of identity politics, which is harmful to getting our national debates centered around a single main issue, like policies that bring prosperity to all Americans. I also don’t think it does enough to communicate clearly what they want.
assistant
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?