I think you are confusing an ideal (“ought”) with a reality. Ideally, POC want for skin color not to matter and for there to be equality. But skin color does matter and there is not equality for black people. One of the many issues is a refusal of the dominant (read: white) culture to acknowledge this *reality*. Many…

No one is saying All lives don’t matter. It’s like saying Save the Rain Forest. That doesn’t mean f**k every other forest. It means maybe look at what’s happening to the rain forest.

Sure go around saying all lives matter, thanks captain obvious. Just keep that obvious shit away from the focused political movement that is BLM.

I feel like you’ve elevated logic to a standard it is not built to support, which is the only satisfactory standard of what is true. Its like you are trying to say that only cold logic has value.

No one is saying All lives don’t matter. It’s like saying Save the Rain Forest. That doesn’t mean f**k every other forest. It means maybe look at what’s happening to the rain forest.

You didn’t, because you wouldn’t view a statement like “Breast Cancer Research Matters” as implying in any way that other types of cancer research don’t matter. Yet you insist upon reading that implication into the phrase “Black Lives Matter” based on your personal perception of the goals of both statements.

What keeps your from taking BLM at its word? When people say “BLM means black lives should matter too, not black lives matter and others do not,” why not accept that and move on to the actual issues?

Try reading the statement with the following invisible byline.

Did you feel it necessary to remind them that other forms of cancer are important to research as well? (edit: I’m not trying to be snarky with this question)

Sure, if black people refrained from advocating for an end to racial injustice, racist white people would resist less. What’s your point?

troll harder, whitey. that there is some weak fucking sauce. sheesh.

You still don’t get it, after reading articles about it for months. The vast majority of people touting the #AllLivesMatter are doing so because they feel #BlackLivesMatter isn’t important. Of course all lives matter, that’s not the point. BLM movement was to draw attention to a specific issue within a specific group…

You’re wrong.

I think in the beginning it was a legitimate misunderstanding of intent and terminology. I didn’t get it initially. But now, a year on, the All Lives folks know exactly what they are doing.

Hm. ALM comes first in the alphabet so ALM > BLM.

You’re not. That said, its categorically more advantageous to *not* be a minority. Instead you should feel guilty if you muffle the voices of the disadvantaged in an unfair way, i.e. without genuinely considering their views, their position and their experiences.

Bro.

You’re not — turn down the persecution complex, dweeb.

Oh, shit. This is the most I’ve ever liked Zuckerberg. That third paragraph is quite succinct and effective.