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Aerows

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14. It was a memorial

Reply to Exilednight (Reply #10)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 03:37 PM

Jun 2016

to heal, time to reflect on losses and how far we still need to go.

To co-opt that is insensitive at best, viscerally hateful at worst.

There was no reason for that other than an arrogant "me too" person interrupting what was an event that was supposed to be for healing and to bring the community together, rather than dividing us.

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Future of America - Hijacking of Orlando Vigil [View all] TipTok Jun 2016 OP

I've lost a lot of respect for the BLM movement. Exilednight Jun 2016 #1

Yep. Started out decent and now has turned into our own version of Westboro protesters. modem77 Jun 2016 #2

Comparing BLM to Westboro protestors is just plain wrong (to put it mildly). n/t demmiblue Jun 2016 #5

How could it be seen as anything but racist? TipTok Jun 2016 #7

Shooting up a gay nightclub had nothing to do with race. Exilednight Jun 2016 #9

Talking about the speaker who hijacked... TipTok Jun 2016 #11

This, is why we can't have nice things... Odin2005 Jun 2016 #4

We're a tribal species The2ndWheel Jun 2016 #8

Here's the ironic part, they're both fighting for the same thing Exilednight Jun 2016 #10

It was a memorial Aerows Jun 2016 #14

These people have bastardized "intersectionality" into meaning... Odin2005 Jun 2016 #15

I thought about posting this last week. pintobean Jun 2016 #3

I certainly appeared selfish and insensitive to me. Aerows Jun 2016 #13

Sadly this seems to be a common problem here on the left, we eat our own. Odin2005 Jun 2016 #16

I also thought about posting it last week cagefreesoylentgreen Jun 2016 #17

Wow... I find this very sad. n/t demmiblue Jun 2016 #6

BLM has completely lost it. romanic Jun 2016 #12

*sigh* Not cool. n/t X_Digger Jun 2016 #18