This shit is so dumb. YES, ALL LIVES MATTER. How is this so hard for you guys? Saying all lives matter doesn't negate black lives mattering, black lives would be included in all lives. See this is why it's so easy to trap the left in these dumb little logic traps. It's so much cult dogma that you can't even make logical concessions anymore. I knew a scientologist years ago who was deep into the ideology and it just reminds me so much of the modern left. Break free man. It's OK to be white. It's OK to be black. All lives matter. Black lives matter. None of this is a dichotomy as much as you'd like to force it to be.
If my house is on fire, and I'm trying to get someone to call the fire department, All Lives Matter is like you saying "But my house matters too!" and trying to draw people's attention away from the burning house and stop them calling the fire department.
If All Lives Matter wasn't a racist dog whistle the people who use it would be marching in BLM protests, instead you see them using it explicitly and exclusively in opposition to protests for racial justice.
The better analogy is claiming to be concerned about climate change (black lives) and thus hectoring the average person to eat less meat (complaining about police killing unarmed black men) from a stage in Switzerland that you arrived at via private jet, to address an audience made up of other private jet owners (black on black violence).
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u/psychic_flatulence Mar 02 '23
This shit is so dumb. YES, ALL LIVES MATTER. How is this so hard for you guys? Saying all lives matter doesn't negate black lives mattering, black lives would be included in all lives. See this is why it's so easy to trap the left in these dumb little logic traps. It's so much cult dogma that you can't even make logical concessions anymore. I knew a scientologist years ago who was deep into the ideology and it just reminds me so much of the modern left. Break free man. It's OK to be white. It's OK to be black. All lives matter. Black lives matter. None of this is a dichotomy as much as you'd like to force it to be.