soih:

soih:

it pains me to even like, bring this up but the co-founder of black lives matter, alicia garza, made a tweet congratulating chicago dyke march’s anti-semitism by referring to the jewish activists who attempted to hold dialogue about this issue as trying to “push their own agenda” which you know, sounds a little too much like “jewish people and their world-dominating agendas” type conspiracy theories 

Can’t believe this has to be said / clarified but no where in this post did I encourage people to abandon BLM or disavow it as a movement - Black Lives Matter is a crucial civil rights movement that is not reliant on the actions of its founders. The intention of this post was not to damn the movement, nor was it meant to criticize anyone or anything other than Alicia Garza and highlight the importance of holding those around you accountable. On that note, there is both anti-semitic and anti-black sentiments and shit-slinging happening on and around this post, completely negating the whole reason we need to be having this discussion. You all should be ashamed of yourselves, for derailing this post about anti-semitism in leftist, activist communities to propagate your own hatred for Jewish people, and for implicating all black activists in Alicia’s actions. Shame, shame, shame all around. Let us learn and grow and listen.