The true cost of the BLM Movement | Matthew Goodwin

In this interview, Matthew Goodwin, uncovers the underbelly of the BLM movement showing the dangerous impacts of its aftermath. Specifically, he focuses on evidence that showcases the increase in crime and declining sense of safety due to the defunding of police.
Matthew Goodwin is an academic, bestselling author, pollster, and speaker known for his research on: politics, populism, elections, voting, public opinion, Brexit, Europe, academic freedom and more. He is Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, recently served as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, at Chatham House, Senior Fellow with the UK In a Changing Europe, Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute, and Senior Advisor to the UK Education Committee. In 2022, Matt was appointed Social Mobility Commissioner.
The author of six books, he wrote the No.2 Sunday Times bestseller Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, and the Sunday Times bestseller, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, which was translated into multiple languages and listed among the Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement as one of the books of the year. He is also co-author of the 2015 Political Book of the Year, Revolt on the Right, which was long-listed for the Orwell Prize and listed among the Financial Times and Guardian books of the year.
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[@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy]

I had enough of all sorts of movements for ten lives. Enough is enough!!!!!

[@panzer00]

Activism has become corrupt

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

I am a skilled manual worker from the UK (electrician) & living in the UK, these movements mean absolutely nothing to the working class, especially for sure, the white working class citizens on this island. The elites care hee haw for nations, these people can live anywhere, the arrogance of organisations imported to the UK like BLM is breathtaking. The people on the streets from white middle class backgrounds that support these agitators, chancers & charlatans have very little in common with people of my background. They are promoting an agenda that is a clear & present threat to our identity & the time is not so far off when we will end up in a massive confrontation with them & probably the state. So be it then because we will be up for it.

[@samuel56551]

Very well said . This woke bs is most popular with university students and champagne socialists , all living in their ivory towers .

[@davidlythgoe4079]

From a pipefitter , Your trade is semi skilled, mate😂 I do agree with everything you have said though

[@rogeralsop3479]

Correct.

[@gabemore1766]

Like In America

[@lottytaylor572]

@@davidlythgoe4079narcissist 🙄

[@evolassunglasses4673]

"Quick reminder that there is no upper limit to diversity. You'll just be endlessly told things are too White until you wake up one day to something between Mogadishu and Karachi". ~ Andrew Joyce

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

Or you and your fellow white male friends find yourselves in a room that looks like a shower. Only no water comes from the vents.... then we realise what the plan was

[@ashlibabbittcroakedit9108]

Cut, paste repeat

[@kevinclarke1222]

Bravo!

[@dougiefresh9618]

Ask one of the BLM movement what the true cost is as she got a multi million dollar house in a white neighborhood.

[@PurpleImpactStrategies]

Sorry but she purchased several million dollars houses …

[@kennyharris2407]

More than one House... And probably lowered property prices in that area...😮😂

[@twofiveb]

On a positive note George Floyd has been drug and arrest free for over 3 years!

[@tecumseh4095]

So as Hunter Biden and they haven’t killed him

[@lhaley9873]

Explain the offical coroner's report of 3 diffrent drugs in his system, the highest being fentanyl.

[@JoeOrwig]

@@lhaley9873 I think you missed the joke.

[@elainehiggins713]

@@JoeOrwigI think he stopped taking drugs after he died.

[@rayrayray63]

8 bedroom mansions mattered more ..

[@andreabonanno437]

Yeah BLM = buy larger mansions😂

[@gnoelalexmay]

✊️ BLACK LIES MANSIONS! ✊️

[@340ACP]

I thought math was racist? They sure made good use of it to collect and account all that money

[@DinoMan_6]

What did it cost....

[@regsilverside9089]

John and Matthew, two good guys.

[@Autobotmatt428]

As an American in Chicago IL I can confirm this. Crime went up after the riots, moral a mung officers went down, and it affected areas all over the city. Its still affecting use.

[@LibertarianGalt]

Time to take your personal safety into your own hands again.

[@janed5077]

@@LibertarianGalt If you do this, best be on the sly. You will be punished for protecting yourself. Government doesn't want you free and independent. They want you on your knees crying, given up, trading freedom for security, begging for their help, to end this mess they created. Classic Marxist tactic.

[@steveodonoghue2772]

Among 🙄

[@DJRockford83]

Amongst perhaps?

[@janed5077]

@@DJRockford83 Perhaps.

[@mikegalvin9801]

I'm a conservative but living in San Francisco most of my adult life the majority of my friends and neighbors tended to be at least Center Left by US standards. Early on I noticed most of them who were willing to speak candidly in private were actually on the same wavelength as me at the time. We thought the media was wildly blowing a tiny handful of incidents out of proportion. There are 10 million arrests annually in the nation of 320 million people that is the US, 99.995% or so of which are without incident. The very few exceptions almost invariably involve people violently resisting arrest also invariably because, like Mr Floyd, they're high as kites. Of course to say so out loud made you look racially insensitive at best which is why almost no one did so. Going back to to my own example it was only my Asian American in laws who would say this in public. Ironically it is precisely because America is NOT a deeply racist country and thus people didn't want to offend others that the BLM fanatics and hustlers were allowed an unchallenged megaphone to peddle their Systemic Racism stuff until they inevitably blew themselves up.

[@haroldwood1394]

Agreed, Mike. I should be 'Left', but I can't stomach how some groups identifying as such seem to hate careful discussion, claiming absolute certainty before clear evidence is available, and are ever ready to kick things apart (or torch them, as in the case of the Minneapolis police centre) without doing the hard work of making things better in the first place. Thanks and best wishes.

[@mikegalvin9801]

@@haroldwood1394 I was a Chicago kid and a California adult but my dad's family was from St Paul and in college in Colorado I had a whole friend group who'd all grown up in the Cities so I'm pretty familiar with that area and the notion of Minneapolis of all places as being like Alabama in 1963 always struck me as unlikely. Yet the media took it for granted.

[@paulpetersen6539]

@@mikegalvin9801 The media bent you over a barrel. [and killed thousands of your citizens] And weaponized algorithms to shut us all in bubbles. Next we'll get a cross patch (digital credit score) & a train ride to "Madagascar".

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

Just look at the crime statistics of white on black vs black on white crime. Makes you wonder who the real racist is here...

[@streetlegalone]

I'm a conservative who also lives in SF. Pretty much isolated in my beliefs.

[@misterfischer2177]

Nailed it 👍

[@richardwhiting299]

He's right..

[@AccordQS]

These stats should be made available to all, all the time.

[@patrickculver7058]

This is brilliant.

[@dsartain3404]

And can we depend on any politicians to deal with this?

[@teonactalpizza]

Donald trump

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

The politicians are part of this onslaught & all working class people should note vote for any of these parties. In fact, just don't vote full stop as this is a corporate run nation now & the politicians are their lackeys.

[@idonthavealoginname]

They couldn't deal a pack of cards ...

[@Rusty84CV]

​@@teonactalpizza wouldn't depend on him for anything

[@panzer00]

​@Rusty84CV why not?

[@starkeyshelbyj]

Defund intellectuals‼️🇺🇸🙏🏼

[@rogeralsop3479]

How extraordinary.

[@Neo_Red_Pill]

We are deeply concerned some indigenous elites have used critical race theory as a vehicle and it is causing division and tribalism 🙏

[@WayneLynch69]

Crime statistics in the U.S. are wholly fabulist. 40% of U.S. municipalities/cities now refuse to report their crimes to the FBI/UCR to avoid incrimination for their failures.

[@hitreset0291]

Yes. White man's place at the top of the human heap is in jeopardy.

[@DinoMan_6]

Stay strong and do not abandon reason for madness. Those ideologies have felled many generations. They are clouded in judgement and have lost their way... - A young Hmong American

[@leonorfraga68]

Agree! Love you both!

[@Spacecowgirl78993]

Brilliant discussion, I had not been aware of that issue. Thank you both

[@Benboy1980]

Every Advert before starting this video has pretty much every colour of the rainbow except white 😂

[@MarkusAxunIllianus]

3000 is a very conservative estimate. I heard much higher numbers from Roland Fryer and Zack Kriegman.

[@user-vk4el9oy6m]

There was one young mother who was murdered by BLM thugs because she told them "All lives matter"

[@mustang607]

Step one: "Defund the police!" activism is successful. Step two: crime expectedly goes up. Step three: more police are needed to slow down the increase in crime. Step four: activists demand Diversity Inclusion Equity mandates in the police departments. Step five: active "experts" ram in their DEI programs into a targeted institution (in this case police departments.) Step six: these programs place their activist "experts" into power. Step seven these program help greatly monitor and influence who should be hired and gets fired based on their potential willingness to support or hinder their cause. Step eight: the institution is slowly captured by an increasing number of activists placed into power and control. See, "stochastic entryism."

[@occamsshavecream4541]

Exactly.

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

Step nine; all white men have the freedom to refuse the blindfold if they wish.

[@janed5077]

@mustang607 You got it down perfect. Yep. Classic Marxist tactics.

[@hitreset0291]

Just let angry white men run the show.

[@panzer00]

Yuri Bezmenov enters the chat.

[@mikeystorm275]

TOTALLY AGREE MATT, RIGHTS FOR WHITES.

[@2aph0d_b33blebr0x]

Well some benefitted from it. In particular those selling mansions in the USA got some money from it.

[@nicojones305]

Sir, if you want to be completely accurate you would refer to the incident(s) as BLM riots, not protests.

[@philharnett2884]

Commenting to help your algorithm. You have my full support, John.

[@jongreen9171]

Been saying that for years...

[@bluepit2021]

Even that “awful event” isn’t what the media first told us it was

[@rangerwhite5165]

On the plus side, George never re offended. Every cloud....

[@xaviertaylor759]

I find it strange to say that deaths where the police were involved (and usually the suspect resisting arrest) reduced when that was such a small number anyway. What actual figures were found?

[@returnofthenative]

Just so.

[@Chris-wyt]

They all got their reparations.

[@jaynelouise1969]

Look at all the deprived black neighbourhoods it's helped, they must have lifted thousands of blacks out of poverty with a the millions raised, ""Oh, wait a minute""... But they did large properties, FOR OFFICES...

[@sharonjames2041]

😢U REAP WAT U SOWED 😢😤❤

[@nioengland]

if it ain't broke don't fix it but if it is broken.. then it must be smashed the money markets have enjoyed some suspicious anonymity the root cause of ESG and DEI

[@mohamedali2858]

BLM movement Vs Feminist movements👇👇 Which one is assigned to a ground and a position that can be accepted morally ?

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Once again i`m glad i`m not middle class

[@JoeOrwig]

What would you call an organization that automatically determined innocence, or guilt based on skin color? In the old days we called that racism.

[@LibertarianGalt]

Relying on the police for your safety is too risky to even consider.

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

Your comment makes it sound like you don’t trust the police

[@Lu6771]

👍

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Who would have thought that reducing policing in the most violent cities in the US would lead to increased crime? Answer. Anyone with common sense.

[@LesterBarrett]

Unfairness, inconsistency, favoritism, and a long list of social ills are characteristics of any society. I will consider things just from one angle, although it is really a universal problem. The complexity of the cure and the attention spans of the impatient public beg this type of simplification. Considering only BLM, and only in a standard Western democracy, if there is such a creature, we must recognize that there are problems which led to the enthusiasm for BLM. I will add one small complexity to this idea. We should consider some of the tensions between religions on the World stage as sharing these phenomena. Actions and reactions are usually specific to definable populations. This becomes a setup for conflicts which do not help anyone, generally speaking. Of course there are temporary winners. The concern here is when some type of action or reaction has already taken place. Everyone has a complaint; and tensions are high. Positions are fortified. At this point, it would be logical for tempers to settle down and for a reasonable attempt to get to the roots of the problem. All sides should be recognizing some common features of humanity and should have some good will to be honest about their own positions, whether they be extreme or conservative. We know that this is how to solve problems, or at least one way when we are dealing with people who are somewhat homogeneous. What really happens though is that the wagons are circled based on deep and intractable problems. In the example of religion, I will point out that I have seen a lot of very justified videos about the horrible deeds and beliefs of the terrorist wings of Islam. instead of addressing those by analysis, we use comparison. In other words, we want our audience to choose sides. In reality, all sides could use some introspection. We know what wrong is and what is wrong; but we see the wrong in others first. So we protect both religions while comparing the behavior. We don't want to attack Islam as a religion even though it arguably needs to be opposed in such a way. Why not? Because we don't want religion attacked. Someone might want to attack our own religion. The slippery slope is that the atheists will win in the end. We forget that if religions rely on the words of past prophets as a somewhat shaky foundation, the atheists have no foundation at all. They have no prophets at all, for good reason. This does not make them right. It only brings out the hubris of the belief. And atheisim is truly a belief just like all others. So we could call everyone true believers of some sort, although we know that in every persuasion, not all believers are true. Atheism survives by attacking the other religions and positing a false alternative. All religions point to a divine source. Anything powerful enough to create life is divine, in my opinion. At some point, each religion reflects the ancient need to understand the world and what befalls us. At another point, these religions also maintain a power base of those who benefit the most. When power over believers is threatened, confrontation is not far off. The simple souls who accept whatever religion they are born into become the soldiers in these conflicts. When the police get defunded, or pull back from their responsibility, or are encouraged to develop different skills, nobody benefits. When protesters and their supporters abandon the police, nobody benefits. We should work on better policing, and on better citizenship. How these things are done should not be an excuse to open yet another front.

[@ernestcote3398]

Why do they prefer the depredations of their own group in preference to working with authority? They create authority via their gangs, so it's not that they don't want or like authority.

[@LesterBarrett]

@@ernestcote3398 Inability to trust, on both sides, with some justification.

[@rexona1178]

What happened after the BLM and how have those other events been controlled for?

[@rexona1178]

The constant push for trade has also caused poverty in developing countries and most of the countries paying taxes in developed countries are exploiting resources and making gains in some of the countries where migrants are coming from. Globalisation is not only about immigration. If you dont want people to migrate, you cant promote trade globally also.

[@magpiegirl3783]

And what percentage of the lives lost was black on black crime?

[@DS-fk7ed]

This nonsense came to the UK, and the 'WOKE' brigade had several months of mass hysteria (this group has moved on to the subject of Palestine and are in a state of hysteria about that). The sight of large groups of white students and middle class socialists 'taking the knee' appeared ludicrous to the 90% of the population who did not subscribe to this bizarre and divisive ideology. An Asian man (from India) at my place of work actually lost his job because he stated that 'all lives matter equally'. He was reported and disciplined which led to loosing his job. Free speech UK style!!

[@williambranch4283]

Yep ... Karl Marx was from Africa ;-)

[@therainbowgulag.]

Black Cash Matters.

[@tobyhuitson4326]

Its deeply racist.

[@user-lo2zb4he8m]

But you have to aim higher then the civilians activists😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-lo2zb4he8m]

Terrorism😂😂😂😂😂

[@gregthomas4119]

We are trained Marxists said one of the founders

[@Larry660]

Liberal: A conservative who just got arrested. Conservative: A liberal who just got mugged.

[@misfit2022]

Marxism isn’t cheap

[@mdelcb9915]

Aka the true cost of Marxism

[@JMD-er5jq]

Old, white Conservative explains the Black experience