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In just over a fortnight, some 33,000 people have used the crowdfunding website GoFundMe to donate to an organisation calling itself ‘Black Lives Matter UK’. The group has raised almost a million pounds in the process.
On paper, Black Lives Matter UK — known on social media as @BLMUK — is the semi-official British offshoot of its American counterpart. It has been formally ‘verified’ as such by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other sites that carry its content — and is therefore highly influential as well as suddenly rich.
Yet while our country’s branch of the lobby group campaigns against police brutality and structural racism just as its transatlantic sibling does, those are not its only specific goals.
Indeed, while most donors and supporters may assume Black Lives Matter UK exists to lobby against racism, the group’s leaders, who remain largely anonymous, can use its financial muscle to pursue a smorgasbord of far-Left aims.
Some are extreme and many appear to have nothing to do with advancing racial equality.
On the group’s GoFundMe page, a statement outlining the Black Lives Matter UK policy agenda was uploaded a few days ago. It explains that the organisation intends to be ‘guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world’.
Which is highly contentious. For while few would disagree that ‘white supremacy’, such as it exists in Britain, is a bad thing, the idea that ‘capitalism’ is intrinsically racist is a minority view.
If those behind Black Lives Matter UK really do intend to ‘dismantle’ capitalism, what might they wish to replace it with? And how would that benefit people of colour?
The only alternative system practised elsewhere in the world is communism. But as China’s Uighur Muslims, or the 1.5 million people from ethnic minorities who were deported or sent to gulags by Josef Stalin, would attest, that system can be very racist indeed.
Even when it has used Twitter to campaign against racism, @BLMUK has sometimes focused on curious targets. In recent years, it has attacked everyone from Oxfam (‘big charities are nothing more than colonisers for the 21st century’) to Sir David Attenborough.
The group accused an episode of his 2018 TV series Dynasties, on chimpanzees, of being racist because the BBC naturalist complained that habitat destruction due to overpopulation was threatening the species with extinction.
‘Human activities can obviously compete with wildlife,’ the anomymous BLM Tweeter opined. ‘But “too many people” always has a silent “black”.’
On Facebook, @BLMUK has posted support for everything from World Vegan Day to strikes over pay called by trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew and Amazon warehouse workers.