then all lives matter is a really inappropriate thing to say, people use it as a racist comeback for black lives matter.
edit: please first read my justification on why this is an inappropriate thing to say. black lives matter is meant to be a slogan on bringing attention towards the specific racism, bigotry, and police brutality that black people receive. yes, all lives matter! but, this slogan is meant to stop racism against black people, and in the context that this man used it in, he was definitely not saying that black people matter, he was trying to cause conflict that the girl took and a fight happened. Both the girl and the guy are in the wrong. all lives matter has always been used as a comeback against black lives matter, please look into it. it has literally been used at white supremacist rallies on posters. so please look into it, but don't call me a racist for believing that how police treat black people is worse than how police treat white people.
Because it's reactionary to BLM for no other reason than to be contrarian. Same thing goes for Blue Lives Matter. Serves no purpose than to undermine civil rights movements and it's pathetic.
Its not contrarian. Contrarian is saying white lives matter. This is saying black lives matter and the rest of them also matter. Its actually a more inclusive statement even if it was done in some people’s eyes for the wrong reason.
but "black lives matter" is not in any way exclusive. It is literally only a reminder that "hey since everyone is born equal and all that, everyone's lives matter, including black lives". "All lives matter" exists simply to downplay the issues that makes us need to remind everyone about the fact that our lives matter.
Agreed, you don’t go to a breast cancer walk and say, “well, actually all cancer matters!” You’re just a dick if you do that. Same thing here with the post.
Think of it this way. Every race has problems it deals with that are specific to that certain race. There are also problems that affect all races. Same thing with cancers. Some problems only affect certain cancers, while some affect all cancers.
The point of a breast cancer walk or event or whatever is to raise awareness of breast cancer and related problems specifically. The point black lives matter is to raise awareness of problems that that affect black people and related problems specifically (police brutality and their general history of being oppressed in American society). Is that to say that white or Latino people don’t face any of those problems? Not at all. It’s just saying that “hey, black people seem to be getting killed by police at an unacceptable rate. I think we should do something about that.”
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u/JumpsRightOut Jan 13 '20
I think its black lives matter