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by HugeAcumen 2138 days ago
Believe it or not, there is a large, large space between acting socially responsible and wanting money for "an edgy leftist position."

So large. A gulf. Maybe you misread the question?

Out of morbid curiosity - who do you believe is funding the breakup of the nuclear family? Where are you getting this from?

And I'll bet you $10 that you are American - in no other country in the world is "tech companies want to dismantle the nuclear family" a somewhat common belief. Except maybe Saudi Arabia and some other "theocracies".

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Sorry if this hurt your feelings. You're one of the good people, doing great work. From reading "How to Win Friends..." I learned the importance to make people feel important. Sorry if I didn't do that in this case. My acumen is smaller. I apologize for any triggering.

I was just poking fun at tech companies, funding not so well thought out positions.

To answer your question, its currently one of the stated goals of BLM.

“Dismantle the nuclear family” ... “currently one of the stated goals of BLM”

This is patent nonsense. Why would you ever believe that’s the goal of any widely supported organization? What happened to Occam’s razor?

The absurdity of this claim inspired me to “do my own research” on the matter.

The notion that this is a “goal” seems to stem from this portion of the “what we believe” page here:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/

> We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work ‘double shifts’ so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work. > > We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

Family friendly spaces and supporting each other as extended families are hardly “dismantling the nuclear family”.

...please don't feed the trolls. Flag, downvote, and move on.
Similarly, please don't create accounts just to post things like this.
I don't see the harm. What am I missing? Genuinely not trolling you here.
From the guidelines:

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