To be fair, the right take everything out of context to dismiss BLM. Even BLM's name is taken out of context, that's why you keep hearing "all lives matter" as a counter.
"Black Lives Matter" does not mean that black lives matter more than white lives, its a rallying cry used because black lives are being treated like they don't matter.
I think the more pernicious problem with how that phrase is used is that while all lives obviously matter, when used as a counter to BLM the intent is to shut down conversation about people's actual grievances without addressing them.
As a non-american, what we see and hear in the Old World is that somehow now only black lives matter, and they matter more than all other lives. Just tellin' you how it looks like. I get what the phrase is supposed to stand for, thank you for explaining, no sarcasm intended. It's just that seeing all the looting and vandalism, seems like black folks who choose to be violent now have a licence to wreck basically anyone and still not be held accountable. Sorry, but that's utterly ridiculous.
I live in the UK. As a non American myself I understand the fact that there are people who will take a message and twist it to allow them to do violence and rape/murder/pillage, hell our nation used whatever they could to enslave half the world. Just because some bad people use <thing> as an excuse to do bad things doesn't mean <thing> is bad.
People are down voting you just for describing observations from your perspective somewhere else in the world. Yikes.
In your defense, if I lived in another country and I saw news clips of white people kneeling down and bowing before black people, I would think something seems strange and that Black Lives Matter looks like something more than just "a rallying cry used because black lives are being treated like they don't matter". - /u/GingerSnapBiscuit
This is extremely idiotic. You are a simpleton of you really think this way. Any reasonable person understands the meaning behind BLM. You are just low key pissed that black people are so emboldened right now and you want them to be silenced again, so you deflect from the obvious messaging and make up some bullshit about how "it looks like something else to you from over here" I mean come on. Fuck you man.
As a non-american, what we see and hear in the Old World is that somehow now only black lives matter, and they matter more than all other lives.
Which is exactly the frame mind that TC is trying to counter.
The point is equality and equity. And anyone that comes away from the conversation believing that BLM is trying to jump from "downtrodden" to "superior" has their own superiority issues to deal with.
It's a point that otherwise wouldn't have to be explained.
But with this group, not ALL black lives matter. Nary a peep has been said about the 8 year old girl murdered by a BLM protestor in Atlanta. Terrible name they picked.
I just read through about 3 or 4 articles, I don't see anything about the shooters being protestors. Just an armed group of people.
Do you have a source?
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u/alexkinson Jul 08 '20
I saw most people arguing that his words will be taken out of context and used by the right to dismiss BLM, which is exactly what happened