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Showing Original Post only (View all)The problem with saying "All Lives Matter" [View all]
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/problem-saying-all-lives-matter"What? you say. My home is being robbed! Arent you going to come and stop them?
Well, I dont know why you need to make this about your home, maam, the operator says. All houses matter.
There is a difference between something being true and something being relevant. In the above conversation with an imaginary 911 operator, what he was saying was very true. All houses do matter. But at the moment, it wasnt relevant. It wasnt even helpful. All things considered, it was downright dangerous. You had an actual crisis going on at your housethats why your house mattered. While the operator was lecturing you on how important all houses are, bandits were trying to figure out whether they could get all your stuff in one load or if theyd have to make two trips.
Its the same error people who respond to Black Lives Matter with All Lives Matter are making. Its not that what theyre saying isnt true. Its just that its unhelpful. Its an attempt to erase an actual crisis under the guise of being fair. And by continuing to use All Lives Matter to drown out the cry of Black Lives Matter, the real problems the movement is trying to address are being ignored. All Lives Matter is useless. It is destructive. It is hurtful. We need to stop saying it.
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And? Generalising grudges over the past makes a worse world, not a better one.
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#17
"The statement that Black lives are systematically willfully dehumanized is excessive"
kwassa
Jul 2016
#38
I agree with some of your points, but you still do not solve the BLM conundrum
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#21
To talk about systemic racism, nothing can be more clear than NYC's "broken window" policy.
rusty quoin
Jul 2016
#36
Misrepresenting what I say isn't proper discussion. Where do I support Zimmerman?
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#89
I suppose anyone who doesn't absolutely share your views sounds like a RW troll?
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#115
Facts? I haven't seen you bring up one fact yet. Just letting everyone know you got caught.
Rex
Jul 2016
#95
And? All I said was that we do not **know** how Zimmerman picked his 'suspects'
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#96
I think Zimmerman was a mild loon and that his case did not reflect on anything much
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#127
This is also false on it face, you been listening to faux new too long... they've been saying simila
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#124
No. It isn't just the past. Lynching is a problem today, too. Did you read about the racist Kansas
tblue37
Jul 2016
#24
That one can find examples of white victims of police brutality is unsurprising, and does nothing to
fishwax
Jul 2016
#110
Perhaps black people should not be targeted for traffic stops because they are black.
rusty quoin
Jul 2016
#77