HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: Another driver behind the spread of BLM was a pressure to conform. The very few ...

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/24/when-black-lives-matter-colonised-the-world/

Another driver behind the spread of BLM was a pressure to conform. The very few institutions and companies that didn’t jump on the bandwagon were loudly denounced and heads were made to roll. Questioning any aspect of the movement was simply out of the question. Anyone drawing attention to the holes in the ‘systemic racism’ narrative or even objected to riots being waged in BLM’s name – the most expensive and destructive in US history – could be ruthlessly cancelled. Mainstream media were especially reluctant to acknowledge the rioting. In a now infamous CNN report, a news anchor stood in front of a burning building in Kenosha, Wisconsin and described the scenes as ‘fiery, but mostly peaceful’. Facebook and Twitter censored stories that were unfavourable to prominent BLM activists. Google added content warnings to articles – including one by spiked’s Tom Slater – that challenged Black Lives Matter’s narrative.

Tellingly, one story that was frequently censored on social media concerned the purchase of several mansions by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, who created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and co-founded the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), one of the main beneficiaries of BLM-related donations. In December 2020, The Economist reported that a whopping $10.6 billion had been pledged to causes and organisations affiliated with BLM. Yet there seems to have been staggeringly little interest or oversight in how that money was spent. As well as millions ploughed into high-end real estate (BLMGNF claims this was necessary for creating ‘content’), a staggering amount of Black Lives Matter donations somehow found their way to transgender-advocacy groups. At one point, Google, Apple and Microsoft almost donated millions to an entity called the Black Lives Matter Foundation, which, confusingly, had nothing to do with Khan-Cullors’s ‘official’ outfit, such was their eagerness to be seen as doing something for BLM.