Black Lives Matter have had a problem with violence since the birth of the movement. From protestors shouting “What do we want? Dead cops!” to the Dallas protest that made good on that promise, Black Lives Matter have had to defend the fact that their movement was inherently hypocritical. They were an organization that meant to advocate against race-based violence, yet their supporters were calling for the death of “white America.”
Naturally, many people responded with a simple message: All lives matter.
The backlash was immediate — and baffling. How could such a simple message of peace be so controversial?
Black Lives Matter activists began claiming that supporters of All Lives Matter were inherently racist. The argument was that everyone already knew that white lives mattered, but that the value of black life was somehow still in doubt.
Now, one Black Lives Matter group is questioning the logic of that argument. No, they’re not standing up for All Lives Matter. They’re arguing that other lives don’t.
See what the students at Texas Tech had to say on the next page:
Why are white people taking this bull$#%&!@* Stand up against them and push them back to their hole
Sounds like they are making threats against police and White people! That’s a hate crime, so maybe the wake up call will get their attention!
So.
A war they will lose badly
here are DSM’s requirements (slightly condensed, and with minor bracketed amendments) for “earning” the unenviable diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance.
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
4. Requires excessive admiration [regularly fishes for compliments, and is highly susceptible to flattery].
5. Has a sense of entitlement.
6. Is interpersonally exploitative.
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling [or, I would add, unable] to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty [rude and abusive] behaviors or attitudes.
So what’s left out here? Actually, as regards identifying descriptors, quite a bit. And I’ve no doubt that other therapists could add further to the six additional characteristics I’ll provide here—features that, although regrettably minimized or omitted from DSM, I‘ve routinely seen displayed by the many dysfunctional narcissists I’ve worked with. So, to enumerate them, such individuals:
1. Are highly reactive to criticism. Or anything they assume or interpret as negatively evaluating their personality or performance. This is why if they’re asked a question that might oblige them to admit some vulnerability, deficiency, or culpability, they’re apt to falsify the evidence (i.e., lie—yet without really acknowledging such prevarication to themselves), hastily change the subject, or respond as though they’d been asked something entirely different. Earlier for Psychology Today I wrote a post highlighting this supercharged sensitivity called “The Narcissist’s Dilemma: They Can Dish It Out, But . . . ”. And this aspect of their disturbance underscores that their ego—oversized, or rather artificially “inflated”—can hardly be viewed as strong or resilient. On the contrary, it’s very easily punctured. (And note here another related piece of mine, “Our Egos: Do They Need Strengthening—or Shrinking?”). What these characteristics suggest is that, at bottom and despite all their egotistic grandiosity, they…
2. …Have low self-esteem. This facet of their psyche is complicated, because superficially their self-regard would appear to be higher and more assured than just about anyone else’s. Additionally, given their customary “drivenness,” it’s not uncommon for them to rise to positions of power and influence, as well as amass a fortune (and see here my post “Narcissism: Why It’s So Rampant in Politics”). But if we examine what’s beneath the surface of such elevated social, political, or economic stature—or their accomplishments generally—what typically can be inferred is a degree of insecurity vastly beyond anything they might be willing to avow.
Hey dumbasses what about color cops..where do they fall…you sound like damn idiots..shut the hell up
They will find out how much they are worth…..They ruin it for the good guys.
Bring it bitches
Guess Texas Tech has an issue to deal with
ALL LIVES MATTER !!!!!!!!!!!