The public-relations ineptitude of not all but most activist movements is a stunning monotony, a shocking predictability, a vague certainty (one doesn't quite know how each movement will pull off utter ineptitude, but one knows it somehow will):
The Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter plans to hold a demonstration at the Mall of America Wednesday, protesting the Nov. 15 shooting death of Jamar Clark by Minneapolis police. Despite legal action from the Mall of America, Black Lives Matter organizers said in a statement Monday that the demonstration will proceed as planned unless their demands are met. The demands call for videos of Clark’s shooting to be released and for the appointment of a special prosecutor to decide whether the involved officers in the shooting should be tried, rather than leaving the decision up to a grand jury.
Why of course. Rather than demonstrating before city hall, why not disrupt municipal commerce that is so essential to the paychecks of working blacks and whites? That should ensure a rainbowed embrace of the BLM movement.
It gets worse. Declared BLM-Minneapolis Monday: "The Mall of America has now taken the further outrageous and totalitarian step of attempting to control the speech of individuals."
Pardon me while I visit my local mall, in which I'll commence protesting, with stentorian resolution, the utter public-relations ineptitude of BLM — at which point the bigoted corporate bastards of said mall will undoubtedly take the outrageous and totalitarian step of physically removing … a pointed protest of BLM's tactics. Which would put the bigoted corporate bastards, in all their outrageous totalitarianism, on BLM's side. Would it not? According, that is, to BLM?