Recently, I was made aware of the following cartoon comic strip created by a Twitter user:

This image was posted to a twitter account “Crab Nighty” - page at https://twitter.com/crabnighty/

Now, from inspecting this account a little further, it is pretty clear where their biases lie…

I mean, they kind of speak for themselves…

And the account doesn’t seem relatively used, with a grand total of only 25 tweets. However, one of the ones that they themselves have made that did gain quite some traction is one “debunking” arguments that, mainly conservative, members of the public have been making against Black Lives Matter. When I first came across this, I thought it was one of those political cartoons that people like to make, and I guess it still kind of is. But, the arguments contained within it seem very “XKCD on free online speech” to me (for an example of what I’m talking about, see here). In other words, it’s technically true, but also kind of not at the same time and is used to justify things that it should not be used to justify.

In this post, the author claims that the idea around Black Lives Matter as an organisation is to make sure that all lives matter. And, sure, I can imagine that is the goal that many of its supporters have in mind. But, the problem arises when it begins to compromise and make the lives worse for those of other races (for no reason other than their race) because they wish to make black lives better.

Don’t believe me? Well, BLM encourages the lie that whites have inherent privileged over blacks and should therefore be punished for it (which has been attacked to hell and back by those opposed to it - even by black Americans), banned whites from their meetings (again, for no reason other than race) and encourage affirmative action, which is literal discrimination against those who are not on a list of “approved minorities” to make sure that more of said “approved minorities” are in a certain job post. Not only that, but they repeatedly encourage and call for violence against those for their race/occupation (so, basically, being the collectivist racists that they claim to be against).

So, I think it’s safe to say that BLM is harming the lives and livelihoods of other races in its supposed “effort” to improve the lives of black Americans. And so, when the author says:

Their argument is flawed in that my response totally would be to say “All forests matter” to a protester to save the rain forest if their solution to cutting down the rainforest is to burn down all other forests on earth - which is comparable to what BLM is doing but with race divisions. Another example: I would respond “actually, all oceans matter” if somebody’s solution to the Atlantic Ocean’s sea level rising was to dump all the water into the black sea and flood several countries. The author trips himself up in his original post when he says that it “doesn’t mean that we think the other forests have no value” - which, ironically, is how the BLM organisation treats the livelihood and relations to other races: worthless. The point being that a major part of the conservative backlash towards BLM as an organisation is their attitude towards other races and their seeming inability to actually follow through in their promise that they simply want all lives to matter equally. If BLM wants my confidence back that they are a simple, honest organisation focused on equality, they should start by publicly opposing affirmative action in all forms and remove the sections from their manifesto which state that whites should be “giving up property for black families”. Until they make these fundamental changes to the things that their organisation believes in, you are going to keep hearing this retort to your protesting - so I’d get it done sooner rather than later, if I were you.

But that’s not everything that’s wrong with this argument though.

This poster appears to have assumed that the only valid (or even the main) argument against BLM is on the grounds that they do not consider that all lives truly matter. And, although I personally do not believe that they do take that seriously enough, this isn’t even one of the main arguments I hear. The main ones I hear are that:

• BLM was founded by three Marxists who exploit calls of racism and black Americans to gain power
• BLM exploits and devalues the police force (effectively throwing them under the bus) for mistakes which had little to do with racism
• BLM has an agenda which involves very sketchy (and sometimes racist) goals which also involve the brainwashing and controlling of children in schools
• The BLM organisation has been one of the biggest causes of disarray and racial tensions, despite claiming to aim to do the opposite

The point being that many people have lost faith and confidence in this organisation for many reasons other than the hypocrisy and failure to actually do their job.

So, let’s sum up. The author of this comic strip’s argument is not only fundamentally flawed in its approach of the opposition, but also fails to properly understand or actually fully consider the argument against themselves. Oh, yeah, and:

I’d just like to interject for a moment: What you are referring to as “personal growth” is in fact “growth as a leftist” or as I’ve recently taken to calling it “growth as an unknowing social Marxist”

Yeah, not so sure about that buddy.

So please, for your own sake, don’t try and take this comic strip seriously as an argument. It’s a cool little piece of art and I will admit it’s written snappily (better than anything I could do). That does not make the argument contained any less invalid.

Oh, and one last thing: yes I am aware of the watermark in the bottom right hand corner suggesting that somebody made this other than the person I linked, but (as far as I am aware) this was just the artist and the person I linked was the actual creator. So, good art “Scarecrowbar”, bad argument “Crab Nighty”.