On The Dennis Marks Racist Claim That The Black Lives Matters Movement's Slogan Is "Only Black Lives Matter"

This racist comment concerning the Black Lives Matter movement from the racially-biased blogger Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks).

This started with a post on the Contra O'Reilly blog from fellow racist Willis Hart about the killing of Eric Garner. According to Willis the "fat asthmatic" was (at least partially) to blame for his own death. Then Willis asked "what about the African-American merchants whose rights were being infringed upon by Garner?" (he was taking away their cigarette sales, presumably).

Which prompted the following response from Dennis...

Dennis Marks: ...why bring race into it at all? It's a meme injected into these discussions by the very racist protesters. The ones that argue that only black lives matter. This meme has been at play despite the fact that race wasn't a factor at all in any of these incidents. (12/26/2014 AT 4:15am).

Later, Dennis authored this comment bashing the NAACP.

Dennis Marks: In recent months, the NAACP has embraceed the supremacist slogan that only lives of those of one race matter. (5/23/2015 AT 12:02pm).

That the Black Live Matter movement or NAACP is saying "only lives of those of one race matter" is pure bullshit. This is the racially-biased Dennis interpretation of what they're saying, but the racially-biased Mr. Marks is wrong.

Of course "all lives matter", but the reason the BLM movement (and slogan) exist is because our system is obviously biased against African Americans. According to a 4/8/2015 RawStory article, more African Americans were killed by the police in 2014 than in the 9/11 attacks.

The Rightwing pushback to this (police killing Black people) is to say more Whites than Blacks are killed by the police. A talking point that, of course, Dennis goes with.

Dennis Marks: More whites are killed overall by cops. (8/29/2015 AT 11:59:00 AM EDT).

According to PoltiFact, over the past decade 2,151 Whites and 1,130 Blacks were killed by the police.

However...

Brian Forst, a professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Criminology at American University, said this difference is predictable. "More whites are killed by the police than blacks primarily because whites outnumber blacks in the general population by more than five to one", Forst said. The country is about 63 percent white and 12 percent black. Rather than comparing the raw numbers, you can look at the likelihood that a person will die due to "legal intervention" [statistically. And] When you do that, the numbers flip. A 2002 study in the American Journal of Public Health found that the death rate due to legal intervention was more than three times higher for blacks than for whites in the period from 1988 to 1997. (Police kill more whites than blacks. Response to statement by Conservative pundit Michael Medved. 8/21/2014 Politifact article by Jon Greenberg).

A Black person is 300 percent more likely to be killed by a police officer than a White person, Dennis! Yet Dennis uses the fact that the US is approximately 63 percent White and 12 percent Black to LIE about Blacks being more likely to be shot and killed by the police. He ignores this fact and, instead misrepresents the truth by pointing out that more Whites are shot by cops. Shameful.

But Dennis' "evidence" against the BLM movement doesn't end there! After stating that "All Lives Matter is beautiful" Dennis cites a recent Rasmussen poll that says Black people prefer the term "all lives matter" to "black lives matter". Dennis sez "even black people strongly prefer all lives matter".

Bullshit, Dennis. As it turns out the reason Rasmussen got that response is because they asked the question designed to get the answer they wanted. An answer that discredits the BLM movement. Even Black people don't identify with BLM, is what Dennis is saying (by pointing to the Rasmussen poll).

The Rasmussen flawed question was "yes, black lives matter, but don't all lives matter? That seems to be the subject of some political dispute".

But there is ZERO dispute! NONE. The BLM movement isn't saying that all lives don't matter. But Rasmussen implies that they are. Then they ask which statement is closest to their own views, "Black Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter". Unsurprisingly, even Black people said "All Lives Matter" (63%).

But notice that Rasmussen didn't ask if the respondent supports the BLM movement. Why? Because (I strongly suspect) there would have been a lot of overlap, in that people could say "all lives matter" but still support BLM.

The Conservative response of "All Lives Matter" is, as David Bedrick points out (in an 8/24/2015 HuffPo article) "a form of willful colorblindness [and] ignorance of America's racist past and present".

This is why Conservatives like Dennis say the BLM movement is "racist" and that "all lives matter" is "beautiful". Racists like Dennis support the status quo and do NOT want anything done to address the VERY REAL problem of the police killing African Americans at a three times greater rate than White Americans.

According to Dennis "we are not clueless here" (he's speaking of people who prefer "all lives matter" over "black lives matter")... but, YES, Dennis is totally clueless. In regards to the BLM movement, and in regards to his own racism.

Turns out that Dennis is the most common type of racist... the one that doesn't realize that he is one.

IMO Dennis Marks absolutely is this kind of racist... one who vehemently denies he is racist, but takes positions that clearly show he is quite racist. His opposition to the BLM movement being just one more example of how racist Dennis is.

Supporting Document
Only Black Lives Matter Ugly Racist Protesters Don't Say, DSD #16.

TADM #80. See also SWTD #311.

Evidence Shows Dennis Marks Might Be The Kind Of Person Who'd Assassinate A Doctor Who Performs Abortions

The following comment is one, IMO, that strongly shows what a completely wack nutjob Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks) is.

Dennis Marks: The abortion industry thrives on people not knowing what they do. PP is very extreme, and greedy: they demand tax money to to be used to harm unborn children all the way up to newborns. It's run by sickos who get their jollies killing as many of the unborn as possible. Do they need to engage in their deadly sadism on the public dime? (7/31/2015 AT 12:33pm).

A "newborn" is an infant that has "recently or only just born". Planned Parenthood docs do NOT kill newborns. If they did they would go to prison, as killing a newborn is murder. If Dennis truly believes this is happening, what is his proof?

Without asking or getting an answer, I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that there is zero proof. If PP was "run by sickos who get their jollies killing as many of the unborn as possible" (including newborns), there would have been arrests and prison sentences handed down.

And I find this allegation pretty disturbing, as what Dennis is alleging is that PP docs are evil. I mean, what else could a person be if they got their "jollies" in this manner except evil? BTW, this comment is even more disturbing because people who think doctors who perform abortions are EVIL are the kind of people who bomb abortion clinics or assassinate doctors.

Is Dennis such a person? Has Dennis ever thought of using a gun to shoot a doctor who performs abortions? I don't know. But if Dennis has ever protested outside an abortion clinic... if he's a part of that movement? Then I think he definitely should be on the radar of law enforcement as a possible assassin... an individual who might snap and decide he needs to kill PP "sickos" who "engage in deadly sadism".

Supporting Document
Anti-Choice Extremism, DSD #17. (A catalog of many radical anti-choice comments from the blogger dmarks).

TADM #79

Is Dennis Marks A Baldheaded Man Who Sports A Ponytail?

According to Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks) I am a baldheaded man who sports a ponytail. Or I'm a man with a large bald spot on the top of my head with long hair on the sides that I pull back into a ponytail.

Dennis Marks: Rusty... you get a free pass to call WD, with his ponytail "baldheaded". Whether or not he is in fact bald. (9/13/2014 AT 8:12am).

Ah, no Dennis. Rusty originally referred to YOU as bald with a ponytail.

Rusty Shackelford: I think I'd lay about 5-1 that either dmarks or WD are one of those bald headed gray haired guys that have a pony tail. You know the kind of guy that other guys laugh at. (12/26/2011 AT 3:30pm).

In response, Dennis wrote the following...

Dennis Marks: "...bald headed gray haired guys that have a pony tail..." Which is it? Bald, or with a pony tail? (12/26/2011 AT 7:44pm).

And, in reply to Dennis' question, Rusty wrote...

Rusty Shackelford: Yep dmarks, confirmed... its you... the middle aged bald guy with the pony tail. Bad look buddy, bad look. And please, dump the Dockers. The other guys are snickering at you. (12/26/2011 AT 8:26pm).

Rusty confirmed that he believes Dennis is the bald man with a ponytail. Initially he said it was either me or Dennis, then he CONFIRMED it was Dennis (in his mind). Yet ever since then Dennis has repeated (a number of times) that *I'm* a baldheaded dude with a ponytail. Or that I have a ponytail (without mentioning the "bald" part).

Anyway, I'm with Rusty on this one. In that I believe that it is likely that Dennis is a bald man with a ponytail, and that him ignoring Rusty's conclusion that Dennis has the ponytail (and bald head) is projection.

How likely this is... that is another matter. The likelihood is probably low. More likely is that Dennis simply liked the insult (originally aimed at him as well as me), so he ignored Rusty's "confirmation" and started using the "insult" against me. With no evidence to back up the accusation... at all.

For the record, I am not bald. No bald spot either, nor receding hairline or ponytail (which I've never had).

In any case, regardless of whether or not Dennis is a baldheaded guy with a ponytail, I give myself a free pass to believe Dennis is the kind of guy that other guys laugh at... for being typically off his gourd in regards to his political views. In regards to that I say, "yep dmarks, confirmed... it's you who is the middle-aged guy with political views that are totally nuts".

He might also be mostly bald and sport a ponytail. Although, if he was embarrassed by Rusty pegging him in regards to his "look"... he might have cut the ponytail off.

3/3/2016 Update: dmarks (in a 1/17/2015 comment I just stumbled across) makes an admission that confirms my suspicions... dmarks: did you know that I'm a baldheaded ponytailed moron? (No joke, dmarks wrote it. Follow the link if you don't believe me).

Image: I've heard that Dennis enjoys getting attention by flashing strangers in parks. Could this picture be a shot of the sicko engaging in this perverted behavior?

Supporting Document
Bald Men With Ponytails, DSD #4. (A catalog of Dennis Marks comments concerning bald headedness and bald men who sport ponytails).

TADM #78

Dennis Marks Anti-Choice Extremist Dipshittery Re Planned Parenthood "Chopping Up Kids And Selling The Pieces"

This commentary concerns serious dipshittery from the anti-choice extremist Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks) in regards to the recent flap over the Planned Parenthood deceptively-edited and illegally-filmed videos. A comment that contains many factual inaccuracies and well as a revelation that Dennis is on the side of those who want to defund PP. (the War on Women side).

Dennis Marks: I read that this is all OK because the money that PP is making chopping up kids and selling the pieces is not enough for them to make a profit. A real weak defense. If we use this logic, we can excuse any other corporation for any sort of malfeasance if it is not making a profit (i.e. bungling business practices, poor management) at that time. Too bad the Hyde Amendment, put in place to stop the government from being involved in the business of harming the young, isn't interpreted to such direct subsidy to the abortion industry. But the funding could end up in danger. Remember ACORN, the election fraud scam, that got cut off finally. (7/31/2015 AT 12:31pm).

Wrong. The "defense" is not that the money they are paid is "not enough for them to make a profit", it is that they are legally prohibited from making a profit. And they are not.

But Dennis is obviously completely oblivious to why PP is "selling" the fetal tissue to begin with, what the law says, or that the Center for Medical Progress (the anti-abortion group that released the videos) is alleging there is profit involved.

Which they are alleging. But they're lying.

The president of Planned Parenthood [Cecile Richards] said her organization's clinics never adjust the abortion procedure to better preserve fetal organs for medical research and that the organization's charges cover only the cost of transmission to researchers. ... The videos were part of longer discussions, and Richards said the longer videos showed doctors repeatedly saying that Planned Parenthood does not profit from the tissue donations. (Planned Parenthood president says group doesn't profit from fetal organ research by Kevin Freking. Associated Press 7/26/2015).

Of course Dennis makes his allegations of "malfeasance" based on ZERO knowledge of the law or why it exists... which is because this tissue is necessary for medical research.

"This is actually laudable, that women and their families choose to make fetal tissue donations in order to potentially save the lives of other folks", Cecile Richards says (as quoted in the article excerpted above).

How exactly fetal tissue is used for medicine (excerpt from a 7/17/2015 CNN article by Carina Storrs) Fetal tissue has been used since the 1930s for vaccine development, and more recently to help advance stem cell research and treatments for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Researchers typically take tissue samples from a fetus that has been aborted (under conditions permitted by law) and grow cells from the tissue in Petri dishes. One of the earliest advances with fetal tissue was to use fetal kidney cells to create the first poliovirus vaccines, which are now estimated to save 550,000 lives worldwide every year. There are also a number of clinical research studies that are investigating whether transplanting different types of fetal tissue into patients could help them recover from diseases, similar to the practice of organ donation. One such study is testing fetal eye (retinal) tissue as a possible treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that can lead to blindness.

So we're probably talking about millions of lives saved. I bet that, if all the benefits to society that have been gained by this research suddenly vanished (along with the people whose lives were saved), Dennis (as well as the "Center for Medical Progress" idiots) would beg for PP to "chop up kids" in order to get these benefits and lives back.

And, remember that, if the harvesting of fetal tissue for research were outlawed, abortion would still be legal. So all that valuable (for research) tissue would simply go in the trash. But, of course these nuts want to outlaw abortion. They're simply trying to shock people with this LEGAL issue of the sale (at no profit) of the tissue for research. Shock them by lying about PP making a profit, which they are not. And that is the very important "excuse", as that is the law... YOU MORON DENNIS!

As for this business that "harms the young" that Dennis refers to... no such business exists. One of the functions of the non-profit organization PP, is to provide a legal medical procedure to women who elect or require it. Zygotes and fetuses may be "young", but they have yet to be born (which may not even be possible for medical reasons) and don't have the same rights as a born person. Dennis may disagree with the law (even though I've never seen him say he thinks abortion should be illegal), but that law, as it currently stands, says abortion (with some limitations) is legal.

Dennis is utilizing "appeal to emotion", which "is a logical fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence". The factual evidence that is absent here is that PP is doing anything illegal.

And it's a really good thing that the Hyde Amendment, which was put in place to appease anti-choicers by stopping the government from being involved in assisting lower-income women get the medical care they require, isn't interpreted as a direct subsidy to the "abortion industry". Even though this "industry" doesn't exist. But if the Hyde Amendment were interpreted that way... it would be really bad for lower-income women. Because the result would be an increase in back alley abortions and women dying because of them. As well as women dying due to complications/complicated pregnancies.

But poor women dying is not something radical anti-choicers like Dennis care about. F*ck those women. They made bad life choices (being poor) and deserve to die. This is the mindset of those like Dennis... make no mistake about it. A mindset I disagree with strongly. Which is why I support getting rid of it. It's "too bad" the Hyde amendment exists at all, IMO.

But it does exist and it does prevent any of PP's federal monies from going toward paying for any abortions. Which is why PP subsidizes abortion services for poor women via private donations. Zero federal dollars are used to fund abortions... which represents 3 percent of what PP does, despite another liar on the comment thread (the one I pulled Dennis' comment from) saying "performing abortions are by far the majority of their services". No, sorry, that's a lie. (a lie repeated by O'Reilly in the video below).

As is this second comment from Dennis. A lie. Actually, this one is FILLED with lies.

Dennis Marks: The abortion industry thrives on people not knowing what they do. PP is very extreme, and greedy: they demand tax money to to be used to harm unborn children all the way up to newborns. It's run by sickos who get their jollies killing as many of the unborn as possible. Do they need to engage in their deadly sadism on the public dime? (7/31/2015 AT 12:33pm).

PP provides critical women's health services across the US to needy and lower-income women. That is the OPPOSITE of "sadism". PP is doing good work that I, as a Christian, support fully. Dennis is the one who does not know what PP does. As I pointed out above, the idiocy that spews from his pie-hole thrives on this extraordinary ignorance.

Killing a newborn would be murder, btw. And it is something no PP doctor has EVER (as far as I know) been charged with. (Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor who was convicted of murdering three infants who were born alive during attempted abortion procedures and sentenced to life in prison, did not work for PP).

Video: Juan Williams acts as the voice of reason VS 2 other Fox dumb-dumbs who have no idea what Planned Parenthood does or how Obamacare Works. Video from Media Matters (8:11).

Update 8/2/2015: In regards to Dennis referring to the alleged ACORN "election fraud scam"... Dennis is lying, as usual. See my debunking of his baloney here. (SWTD #300: ACORN Target Of GOP Lies Because They Registered Voters).

TADM #77