Why would you think that?I thought saying anything other than Black Lives Matter was racist?
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Why would you think that?I thought saying anything other than Black Lives Matter was racist?
Why would you think that?
Gonna go out on a limb, here: He heard that responding to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter" was racist (which it is -- or at least, incredibly insensitive and unaware), and didn't understand why, so he extrapolated that saying anything other than "Black Lives Matter" was racist.
Gonna go out on a limb, here: He heard that responding to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter" was racist (which it is -- or at least, incredibly insensitive and unaware), and didn't understand why, so he extrapolated that saying anything other than "Black Lives Matter" was racist.
"All Lives Matter" came across as a big F U <insert fovorite Afriican racial slur here>.I mean, seriously, what is the difference practically between All Lives Matter and the OP's Our Lives Matter, and why is the former "racist" when it is isn't and the latter is fine and no different to the former?
What have the speech police changed the rules to today?
"All Lives Matter" came across as a big F U <insert fovorite Afriican racial slur here>.
That's the way it came across. I was careful in the way I worded the OP so as to not make that mistake.And how is saying All Lives Matter different from Our Lives Matter? Both are being extended to everyone, no? Instead of using the Black Lives Matter mantra?
Kinda hard to shoot for equality when the rules of engagement keep changing when convenient, wouldn't you say?
That's the way it came across. I was careful in the way I worded the OP so as to not make that mistake.
I mean, seriously, what is the difference practically between All Lives Matter and the OP's Our Lives Matter, and why is the former "racist" when it is isn't and the latter is fine and no different to the former?
What have the speech police changed the rules to today?
Try reading it again.Ok, so you've basically said the same thing that we've been told all along is RAAAACIST....but it's not racist when you do it.
Seems legit.
"All Lives Matter" is not intrinsically racist. It's a general truth we should all teach our children. However...
"All Lives Matter" was stated in response to "Black Lives Matter." BLM was founded, not based on the question: Whose lives matter? but on the observation: Black lives apparently don't matter. Responding, therefore, to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter" was a change of topic away from the struggles black Americans face.
As AirPo points out, his OP was carefully worded not as a response to the statement "Black Lives Matter."
It's saying that no-one's lives should be harmed and that's worth aiming for.
Again, you have not established any difference between what the OP said and statements that All Lives Matter.
I admire the OP's sentiment, but it seems rather arbitrary and hypocritical that he isn't having people jumping down his throat for saying in effect that all lives matter. All you seem to be doing is making a value judgement on similar statements from the "other" side of this debate that is little more than a uncharitable assumption of poor faith.
Of course he did. It's either being ignored on purpose or is beyond comprehension.It's saying that no-one's lives should be harmed and that's worth aiming for.
Again, you have not established any difference between what the OP said and statements that All Lives Matter.
Would you like to use another lifeline? Because ask the audience hasn't help at all.I admire the OP's sentiment, but it seems rather arbitrary and hypocritical that he isn't having people jumping down his throat for saying in effect that all lives matter. All you seem to be doing is making a value judgement on similar statements from the "other" side of this debate that is little more than a uncharitable assumption of poor faith.
I say it because "All Lives Matter" became a thing after "Black Lives Matter" and often through defacing of BLM posters. It was a response.
Now, you may never have responded to "Black Lives Matter" or any discussion of the matter with "All Lives Matter" but that's the history of it.
Ahhhh ok. So because a handful of ALM people did something bad, we can assume ALM is problematic in itself.
I'll remember that the next time some BLM people go off on one.
Of course he did. It's either being ignored on purpose or is beyond comprehension.
Would you like to use another life line, because ask the audience hasn't help at all?
No, this is different from what I said.
Incidentally, this is why I say that someone talked to you about this but you didn't understand what was being said.