Saying 'All Lives Matter' is the new wedge issue. Now that the confederate flag is gone [View all]
the GOP needed something that would slur African americans but in a more subtle way. Black Lives Matter is about value-ing lives that traditionally were not valued. It is about equality. It is not putting one set of lives above another. Saying All Lives Matter gaslights African americans. Don't be fooled. Don't use it. And don't hesitate to call out anyone who does.
I also think the GOP do not want activists negotiating with police on an equal footing. For sure it would be hard at first. But then issues of police training, community cooperation, police pay and hiring, black on black violence would inevitably be discussed. And solutions might come about. And peace and understanding of two groups on equal footing is not what the GOP, whose wedge issues are based on race during elections, do not want.
It is the perfect GOP wedge issues. Racists understand it as baiting BLM followers. Non racists or the naïve see it as a reasonable statement of the importance of life, all the while they spread the hate meme by repeating it.
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