Exactly. I am so tired of black lives matter. A good slogan would be black lies matter.

Black Lives Matter is a racist group trying to get special favors for black people. If the police are violating peoples rights, it should be dealt with as a human rights issue, NOT a racial issue.

As to feminism, it has been my experience that women rise to the level of their ability and drive, just like men to. Feminism seems to me to be an attempt to effect that rise for women when they havent earned it.

They are not fighting for CIVIL rights. They have those already.
They are fighting for EXTRA rights. Special Treatment, and GROUP Rights...
Sorry. Groups don't have rights, People Do!

Individualism is where it's at. Covers everyone.

I have found that they can not even consistently define the words that they are opposing. I have challenged these activists online to define words that they throw around like "racist", "sexist", "misogynist", "fascist", "nationalist". I rarely get a response, even on a public forum. If I get one, it differs in serious and specific ways from other definitions I have gotten.

My first point is that these people are not even fighting the same things as each other, standing shoulder to shoulder and shouting the same chants. Secondly, they slap a label on you with a very innocent and loose definition and then try to associate you with other interpretations.

The conclusion is that there is zero consistency about what they are opposing.

The same is true about what they are fighting for. Generally, when interviewed by the press about their demands, they get evasive. How can anyone claim to be a real protester if they can not tell you what they are fighting for. Hell, they wouldn't even be able to tell if they got it.

None of the groups you mention care a whit about "civil rights". They are all groups that are funded by either Leftists who want to bring disruption and chaos to ordinary Americans, or by rich Globalists who want to bring disruption and chaos to ordinary Americans.
We need our President and Attorney General to investigate these groups, find their financial supporters, and cut off their money. They would then evaporate.

Shortest explanation I can muster: They're all tribalists who aim to divide and conquer. Foot soldiers in the Marxist army. Oh, and to answer the question, I don't much care for them.

Fighting for civil rights or fighting for privilege over others?

In reply to DrZarkov99: Yes! And if anyone should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, it should be Sarah Breedlove (Madam C.J. Walker).

I am not denying that there are issues that need to be addressed but the means and motivations are questionable.

From The True Believer (1951), Eric Hoffer:

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others.

There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

You can include in this unions. They all started out with a legitimate concern about something basic: human rights, dignity, work conditions, etc. All sought to continue to exist after their initial goals had been achieved by inventing a continuation of the abuses. All operate based on invented abuses and inequalities, seeking not for equality, but superiority. They should all be shunned by sane people because they have no logical basis and have turned to emotional manipulation and mob rule.

One thing I like to point out to both feminists and race-baiters is that the first female millionaire was a black woman in the early 20th century. She didn't inherit or marry into her fortune, but started with an idea and worked hard from the bottom up to become a very successful business person.

Well Put Jackson! I can agree to that.

My answer is a simple one and as directly to the point as I can make at this time.

ALL these groups show a blaring lack of accountability for their own actions, going so far as to make stuff up to keep the fight from smoldering out.

I did, however read a Blaze piece today where a BLM local leader actually made a cogent speech at, of all places, a Trump rally.
Asked after his speaking, he stated that he was pleased that just maybe now, we can have an honest discussion.
He surely stands out as a conscious being unlike the bad actors at the head of that organization.

The issue I have is that groups of late have a way of doing two things that rub me the wrong way. 1) they dwell on the past. Equality has come a long way but if I become vociferous about my views or my life, if it contradicts whatever they're protesting today, then I'm a male chauvinist or a racist or, God forbid, a Capitalist without hearing me out. Essentially they've made up their minds because whatever happened in the past they apply to the present and generalize it. Which brings me to 2) Their mindset is always "if you are not with us, you are against us." And if they view you as against them then you, sir, are the antichrist. There are no civilized debates regarding the groups the op is referring to. If you show any opposition, or even a "yeah, but..." then you pretty much put your life in danger. I am so against bullying you have no idea. These protests, these groups, are just that. Strong arm to get what they want and never listen to criticism because, you know, maybe perhaps people living on this little drop of matter called Earth do have different beliefs. Listen, I'm not saying there is no bad in the world. But protests and anti-whatever groups, to me at least, are not making humankind better but a catalyst of exclusion, oppression and violence.

"to say feminism conveys all of feminism and what it stands for. "
To me it stands for treating people as individuals, not as a group. There are so many kinds of feminism, three waves of it and disagreement within the schools of thought, so you can't be sure what someone means by the word without context. I'm a feminist in that sense of respecting people's rights without regard to gender.

I agree that BLM has focused on the wrong problem and should change their behaviors to be more conducive to their supposed goal.
Females worked together to gain the right to vote, equal standing in the courts, and freedom of gender bias. However, what they are going after now is just flawed logic. These women do not need to work as a collective brute force censoring society demanding reparations for what men "did" to them. They have and always will be equal to everyone else, yet they continue to fight for things that have no rational reason. The wage gap, Male Privilege, all these things are social constructs that do not matter, look at Ayn Rand a Russian Immigrant that is female and look where it got her! She was a powerful political and philosophical figure. Women have had the power, they simply did not choose to take it. She is one of many women who have defied the mental constructs or used them for their advantage.

The original feminist movement had justifiable goals: the right to vote; equal standing in the courts; freedom from gender bias in competing for a job. Having secured the legal basis to support achieving those original goals, the current face of feminism has gone off track in counterproductive ways.

In struggling with the traditional culture of male dominance in affairs of sex, feminists have made women more of a sexual object, focusing on promiscuity and cheating as signs women now had the same right to behave as shamelessly as any male. This reflects a very skewed perception of "all men" as immoral and untrustworthy. The latest crazy twist of promoting pride in having abortions reeks of insanity.

BLM is focused on the wrong thing. More than 90% of all black victims of homicide are killed by a black perpetrator, and more whites than blacks are killed by police. The inner city culture needs a change in its moral code, and ignoring that does the minority community a disservice.

The U.S. is the only developed country that does not have a national requirement for voter ID. Any group that demands exception is supporting voter fraud, period.

Any group that focuses on exceptional racial demands, such as segregation is in the wrong. Any group that demands they have the right of an American citizen without seeking citizenship is in the wrong. Any group that demands reparations for wrongs not committed by those who would pay is wrong.

That about sums it up.

That I understand, however to say feminism conveys all of feminism and what it stands for. To have official titles tend to separate or discriminate against a group. Which does not agree with Ayn Rand, she did not discriminate as she accepted all individual rights. Discrimination is the tool of the brute. As is human nature. Feminists fight for irrational causes due to the lack of equality. As stated above we are all able to influence the world we live in, even Ayn Rand could agree that women, men, or any other identity can't be truly stopped or hindered by society. Ayn Rand escaped from communist Russia, made a name for herself in the United States during the 20's and made herself into a political and philosophical figure. There is no doubt that there is equality. Inequality is a human construct that impedes the growth of those who are not rational, who do not embrace the rational selfishness that Rand presented.

"every person is inherently created equal, "
Those are the parts I support. When I say "feminism" that's what I mean, not seeking gov't handouts.

Personally I find them all in conflict with Ayn Rand's views, they are both inherently asking for government power and handouts to push their political agenda. They threaten the individual rights of every person, with their desire to censor our public land marks, simple interaction, and expect a "fair" system. I would go as far to say that they are an agent of socialism. In Rand's beliefs that greatly mirror my own, every person is inherently created equal, not in the sense that the public uses it but, in the way of we all have the ability to survive in our world based off of our strengths and utilizing them for our beneficial self interest. They fight for "equality" when they only present a separation between male and female and color against color. They fight the "monster" they claim to exist in our society, but in the end they act just the same. With this rationale I can not respect them, as they leave behind rational thought, and push for all of us to support their short comings as individuals.

Feminism is an idea (not a group) that I strongly support. BLM is a group I support. I strongly support their goal of reducing racism.

This doesn't matter, though, unless you're just taking a survey. Do you have some thoughts about how they interact or relate to Ayn Rand's books?