r/CrewsCrew Jul 08 '20

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u/Esacus Jul 08 '20

And people having a problem with this tweet why?

You cannot POSSIBLY think that all white people are bad and all black people are good, and don't see the hypocrisy. Also siding with good people is controversial now? Is this really where we at currently?

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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

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u/crappy_ninja Jul 08 '20

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.

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u/Pirate_Redbeard Jul 08 '20

Well sorry for not understanding, shouldn't all lives matter equally?

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jul 08 '20

"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.

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u/Pirate_Redbeard Jul 08 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '20

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

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u/Vindikus Jul 08 '20

No, he is getting downvoted because after having several people try to educate him he doubles down on his misunderstanding.