[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Would you class all edl or britain first members as racists?

What's the point of this example? Are you comparing BLM to the EDL and Britain First? If so then that's a fatally flawed comparison. The BLM movement started as a protest against racially charged police brutality, The EDL was quite literally formed from an alliance of football hooligans associated with different clubs. It's aim isn't about equality or highlighting social issues but to target, intimidate and attack muslims and/or people who aren't white. Britain First was created to protest multi-culturism and it often pulls stunts aimed at harassing muslim and arabic people, again BF isn't trying to correct an civil injustice, it wants to inflict that injustice on people whose faces don't fit with their idea of a 'traditional' (read: White) Britain.

I'm not going to lie and say that there aren't misguided people who are apart of the BLM movement like that idiot in the article but they are the exception, not the rule. That idiot will and should be disavowed by everyone who supports BLM because they aren't representative of it's ideals. BLM isn't about attacking white people, unlike EDL and BF, it's not about stirring up racial hatred, it's about highlighting and correcting institutional racism and racially charged police brutality.

As for your question, yes. EDL and Britain First are filled with racists and/or supremely ignorant people because those organisations were built on racist ideals and goals. To claim otherwise is to lie and to suggest that they are similar is ignorant.