Submitted by Marissa
A member of the Norwegian Parliament nominated Black Lives Matter for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, lauding the movement for its calls for systemic change during summer 2020.
Petter Eide of the Socialist Left Party said in his nomination papers that the movement had a hand in forcing countries outside the United States to combat racism and inequality in their respective societies, according to the Guardian.
Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May, Black Lives Matter soared in international popularity, leading to protests against racism and police brutality in cities across the world, including London, Seoul, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, and elsewhere.
“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality. Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice,” Eide said. “They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.”
Eide said he did not intend for his nomination to be a statement about domestic U.S. politics but also dismissed criticism from right-wing voices alleging Black Lives Matter was responsible for damages and violence in U.S. cities.
“Studies have shown that most of the demonstrations organised by Black Lives Matter have been peaceful. Of course there have been incidents, but most of them have been caused by the activities of either the police or counter-protestors,” Eide said.
According to Property Claim Services, a company tracking insurance claims related to civil disorder, looting and riots following the death of Floyd amounted to at least $1 billion in damages to properties across the United States, the Hill reported.
Although independent investigations concluded over 90% of protests in 2020 remained peaceful, many cities, including Minneapolis and Kenosha, Wisconsin, were struck with immense property damages from violent agitators and anarchists.
Former President Donald Trump was also nominated for the 2021 prize by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of Parliament who leads Norway’s NATO delegation. Trump did not win the prize.
Tybring-Gjedde said he nominated Trump not because he liked the former president but because “the committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts — not on the way he behaves sometimes. The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump. For example, Barack Obama did nothing.”
Tybring-Gjedde also said his reasoning for nominating Trump stemmed from his role in brokering peace negotiations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Following the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, after which the House voted to impeach Trump a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection, Eide said he had “a little difficulty defending [Tybring-Gjedde’s] nomination.” Trump faces a Senate impeachment trial next month.
Nobel Peace Prize nominations are accepted from any politician serving at a national level, and those submitting have 2,000 words to state their reasoning for selection.
The deadline for 2021 submissions is Monday. A committee will prepare a shortlist of nominations by the end of March, and the winner is selected in October, followed by an award ceremony slated for Dec. 10.
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I’m telling you–the Babylon Bee can’t survive when reality becomes such a farce.
Yes, reality has become stranger than fiction. Maybe this will finally convince at least a few sheeple that everything they are being told by the ‘authorities’ and everything on the news is false. Time to take the red pill.
I understand the award is etched into the side of a blow torch.
No, but there is a new design for this year.
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If they win the Nobel Prize folks said they’d cover the trophy in blood before the presentation .
Are Antifa, the Red Brigade, the IRA, the PLO, the DNC, and other terrorist organizations nominated too?
How about the IDF?
PLO? LIke Yassar Arafat and his prize? Ever since O’bama the magic halfrican got one the value of said prize and $4.99 will get you a mediocre Starbucks coffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gCvmVpBqNg
You mean the Black Liberation Movement (BLM) Communist Front; don’t be fooled: lives, jobs, fatherhood, Truth, education, God and country don’t matter for shit to a lot of Blacks. Remember Nicole.
Spoken like a low IQ military gubmint worker! while he hid under bed as BLM rolled through his hood! Afraid you going to get cutoff from your welfare gubmint cheese?
Hilarious fact!
BLM didn’t come through my area for good reasons, my colors don’t run.
Anybody need more proof that BL/Antifa are the terrorist arm of the federal government?
**** ** ************* ****!
I honestly thought this was a babylon bee article.
About as hilarious as the Droner in Chief getting it right before he droned a couple thousand people outside of Assholistan and Iraq.
I have lived about 2.1 billion seconds. (holy shit!)
Number of seconds I have given a Flying Fuck about Norfag and their bullshit prizes: ZERO. Next!
BTW … here’s the shithead who nominated Da Nasty Kneegrow Club
I understand that this shit eating grin can now be corrected with an aluminum baseball bat.
Gaydar alarm going off…..
More is the pity for all those past great winners of this prize, that their wonderful contributions to humanity will be devalued and become meaningless as their club of excellence and merit is joined by a bunch of extremist political terrorists. Frankly if I were one of them alive today , I would hand my award back to the bunch of liberal NWO retards running the show at the Nobel foundation.
All BM’s matter….and this makes me want to take a big one.
I wonder how many if any former recipients will send theirs back with instructions to shove it up their ass……
Giving the “peace” prize to a black communist bunch of rioters has to be the smartest thing since giving it to B O. Do I really need a tag?
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley
So . How many coons made the Norwegian Olympic Team?
The most heavily medaled team by far as a % of their population.
This just shows the Nobel Peace Prize has nothing to do with peace.