2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: While I support the overall BLM movement, the group's so-called "representatives" have lost me. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)racial justice, or even the BLM movement specifically. I think that just like any other politician, there are a number who have too deeply invested themselves in the 'him' image they have built in their own head, rather than the him that exists separately in reality, and by making 'him' part of their own psyche automatically take anything they perceive as an attack on 'him' as an attack on them.
He (the real politician) can drag them along by evolving his positions and priorities, but they'll always hold hidden grudges against those they feel have insulted or attacked 'him'. So it's not actually about racism, racial justice, or anything along those lines, but simply about the tendency of people to want to 'personalize' and 'make mental friends of' politicians, celebrities, sports teams, or indeed, political parties. To create a 'special relationship' that exists only in their own minds, that requires them to 'defend' their 'friend'.