I think it’s somewhere between #NotAllMen and MRAs. Willfully ignoring the existence of oppression to, like you say, redirect the conversation to focus on you, ignoring the reality that no one in this country is coming for straight white men.

Everyone’s house is always on fire.

I think “All Lives Matter” responses are, much like #NotAllMen, a way of whining “But What About Meeeeeee???!!” Horrors, the current conversation is not focused on your needs, O Normative White (male) person. Nobody is going to take away your rights. We are not going to go to the Civil Rights Bank and withdraw some…

Because to change the conversation from “Black” to “All” is just a red herring used to distract from the core issue. A classic and rather disingenuous tactic of redirection.

Because it completely disregards the message of the statement which is saying that the status quo suggests that black lives do NOT matter and that other lives do. It’s not to say that “all lives matter” is a bad sentiment (clearly it is not)... but if you want to shine a spotlight on mistreatment... you need to…

I agree. MLK should have talked more about the plight of white people and all the rights white people don’t have in order to be completely equal.

Because not ALL people are being systematically abused by the police and the legal system in this country.

Because that materially diminishes the message that black lives *don’t* matter to a substantial portion of the US population. The message is black lives *also* matter, because to many “all lives” doesn’t actually include “black lives”. Black Lives Matter is a reminder.

Because the people saying “all lives matter” don’t actually believe that. “All lives matter” is another way of saying “stop paying attention to black people’s problems”.

This. This also applies to you #bluelivesmatter d*cks too. Cops have always mattered.

How many times do people need to be told that the inherent implication behind black lives matter IS all lives matter?!?!

This guy is scarier than Trump to me.

They are so fucking twisted. How can they threaten the livelyhood of construction workers? Some of those workers have kids who the Catholic diocese supposedly cares about! How did we end up in this situation?

People HAVE to vote in mid-year elections. HAVE TO. Not voting is how we lost the Legislative branch.

Yes, they do know that people will die. We (The your body, your choice crowd) have been way to kind to them in the past and used words like ignorant, judgmental and bigoted but yet defended their right to express their opinion. in fact I think most of us would still fight for their right to express their opinion. Yet,…

It’s also worth noting that Planned Parenthood has been building a new facility in New Orleans that would provide abortions (the current facility does not provide abortions, but referrals) and it has been a shitshow. The local Catholic diocese literally told builders that if they worked on the building, the church…

I don’t know; I know a lot of pro-choicers (I live in the deep, deep South) and they care more about their taxes than they do choice issues. Their line is that they’ll fix women’s healthcare when fiscal issues are taken care of. I also noticed this line of thinking in pieces in traditionally feminist platforms, like a…

This will keep happening if pro choicers continue to sit out local elections and only care when it is a presidential election. The religious right is highly motivated to vote and do not care if “heathens, nonbelievers and whores” suffer.