Nick Symmonds speaks out against BLM, deactivates Twitter?

All the little insects want Nick to fall in line. That's all this is.

Go crawl back in your hole and keep creating zero value for society.

BigTex wrote:

BLM is a racist, Marxist movement. They are anti-cop but do nothing to address the most pressing issues that the black community faces. The odds of an innocent black person being killed by the cops are minuscule, but they pretend that is the biggest problem.

Hell, BLM is made up of more leftist white people than it is black people. Most of the black people I know think BLM is way too extreme for them.

Haha How many is “most” of the black people you know? One? I live in a city with a large AA population and they literally all support BLM. There were tears in their eyes during the peaceful protests I attended.

The Gallant Pig Man wrote:

Lenny Leonard wrote:

“BLM... decided to wage war on the economy.”

Black unemployment is 15.4% and additional, desperately-needed UI funding is unlikely to materialize. Just 12% of black and latino businesses received PPP loans in the amount they applied for. 40% of black business owners have gone under. 32% of black children live in poverty. Tens of millions have lost health insurance and a disproportionate number of them are black. The homeless population skews black. Black people are dying far more frequently from COVID and disproportionately work in industries that Republicans are trying to force to reopen without necessary safety measures in place.

The economy is waging war on black people, Nick. Not the other way around.

This right here. ^^^

So selling caffeine gum is contributing? Smh

It's people like you and Nick that want people to fall in line.

Do some open minded listening. See what other people are experiencing. Travel around and talk to people when we can again. Poke holes in your own thinking. It will make you stronger.

Asdfasd wrote:

So selling caffeine gum is contributing? Smh

It's people like you and Nick that want people to fall in line.

Do some open minded listening. See what other people are experiencing. Travel around and talk to people when we can again. Poke holes in your own thinking. It will make you stronger.

In other words, go away and don't come back until you've been re-educated with the all the "right" opinions.

So, LRC posters have hated on Symmonds for many years, but suddenly run to his defense when he teases everyone with a little altright inclination?

Yes, that does make sense, actually.

Run Gum is just like an energy drink.

Drink an energy drink, or just wait 30 seconds for an energy drink company to announce their new gum.

Pat Bateman wrote:

All the little insects want Nick to fall in line. That's all this is.

Go crawl back in your hole and keep creating zero value for society.

No one forced Nick to delete his twitter. He can say whatever he wants to say and he certainly could have left the comments. HE CHOSE not to do that. HE CHOSE to run away and hide from his own comments. All of this talk about cancel culture is a side show. If you believe what you say then say it and deal with the consequences. If the majority are with you, you will be fine. The only reason you would delete your comments and hide is if you believe the majority is not with you and there will be a price to pay for what you say. Nick said how he feels and that's great. Now people will say how they feel about that and act accordingly.

When the angry mob comes after you, you lock the door. Nothing wrong with that. Nick Symmonds does not need to deal with notifications blowing up his phone all day due to a Peter Bromka-led angry mob.

It's all good when you have every major corporation, every politician, every bank (so much for "occupy wall street" lol), every tech company, and every media publication on your side.

Cool "revolution" you got there.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Nick Symmonds commented:

“BLM lost me when they decided to wage war on the economy. I believe that black lives matter, but can no longer support the organization Black Lives Matter.”

Others in the running community drew attention to this, and now it appears his Twitter has been deactivated.

Bravo Nick, now have the balls to stand up to Mob and don't go Drew Brees on us. Black Lives Matter is a large proponent of Marxism and anti the nuclear family. These are two items that a lot of people take exception of regardless of their ethnicity. You can be for a cause but be anti a group that is also for the cause because that group has core beliefs that you don't align with. It's not racist to chose not to support a group because they have core beliefs, anti-capitalism in Nick's case, that you don't align with. What is ignorant is to not look past an organization's name and support them if their core values do not align with their own. In this Twittersphere world where people don't want to dig deeper than 240 characters, it is disturbing how little people look into the groups they support. I wonder how many have actually read BLM's mission statement.

Plus for Nick for actually looking at how the group wants to achieve the goal they seek and not following blindly.

White Supremacists and Anti-Semites always get kicked off of Twitter. Frisco doesn't like Nazis.

Come on Nik, stand up, don't go the Brees route. You gained a fan today.

Don't cave to the cancel culture jerks.

felonious monk wrote:

Hard to believe that a guy who grew up going to private school in Boise, ID would take issue with BLM.

Easy to believe that anyone opposed to Marxism and to the destruction of the nuclear family would oppose BLM.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Nick Symmonds commented:

“BLM lost me when they decided to wage war on the economy. I believe that black lives matter, but can no longer support the organization Black Lives Matter.”

Others in the running community drew attention to this, and now it appears his Twitter has been deactivated.

If he was referring to the looters, I fully agree with him.

bbbbb wrote:

felonious monk wrote:

Hard to believe that a guy who grew up going to private school in Boise, ID would take issue with BLM.

Easy to believe that anyone opposed to Marxism and to the destruction of the nuclear family would oppose BLM.

And I think the breakdown of the black family in the USA has far more to do with black underperformance than racism.

bbbbb wrote:

felonious monk wrote:

Hard to believe that a guy who grew up going to private school in Boise, ID would take issue with BLM.

Easy to believe that anyone opposed to Marxism and to the destruction of the nuclear family would oppose BLM.

"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."

Why misrepresent?

LOL at the “angry mob” and the invention of the term “cancel culture”. No one is sending an angry mob at Nick. If he’s big enough to blame BLM for the economy instead of, you know, the global pandemic, then he’s big enough to accept the consequences of his actions. The idea that we call “real progress” cancel culture is the same sort of BS as the term Make America Great Again. It’s rooted in the use that America is not meant to change - when in fact the entire idea of America was based on being able to change and adapt. It’s not angry mobs, Mr. persecution complex - it’s progress. I think it’s a good sign that this sort of casual low-grade racism doesn’t sit so well anymore.

GoodIntentions;-) wrote:

The Gallant Pig Man wrote:

Black unemployment is 15.4% and additional, desperately-needed UI funding is unlikely to materialize. Just 12% of black and latino businesses received PPP loans in the amount they applied for. 40% of black business owners have gone under. 32% of black children live in poverty. Tens of millions have lost health insurance and a disproportionate number of them are black. The homeless population skews black. Black people are dying far more frequently from COVID and disproportionately work in industries that Republicans are trying to force to reopen without necessary safety measures in place.

The economy is waging war on black people, Nick. Not the other way around.

This right here. ^^^

This right here, is a bunch of misinterpreted & cherry-picked ‘facts’.

Re: unemployment & poverty. You have to control for educational attainment (and even the degree & institution ), household composition (single parent household => more likely lower income) ... and you leave out things like federal contract giving preference to minority owned business or the extra $ funneled to title 9 schools. It’s a strange “war” when the complaint really just boils down to the government not <b>helping</b> enough.

Re: PPP & businesses closing. You need to control for business composition (e.g. in my city BOB is mostly food related, entertainment related , barber shops etc. ) ... all very cyclical businesses that are vulnerable for when people don’t have discretionary money or fear congregating around people. Also, the PPP program administration was based on businesses having established relationships with banks. The black community is notoriously under banked for a variety of reasons.

The BLM ( and radical leftists in general) are annoying b/c they’re too indignant to actually make reasoned arguments. Sometimes they’ll cherry pick some stats, but they typically fall back on anecdotes and appeal to emotions. Where I live (Florida), they’ve spent over a year clamoring for the bodycam footage of a police involved killing in Jacksonville saying they want “justice” ... then whoops, the footage shows the guy being initially cooperative & declaring he has a firearm, then he refused/resisted following the officer to his police car and lounges back into his own car for his gun prior to being shot! Another recent incident involves a black trans man who was armed and very likely just murdered another black teenager, yet he is a new martyr for BLM ?!?

To me, the BLM is right up there with the Bundy ranchers. Good for Nick for sharing his thoughts and making his videos. I hope he keeps at it.