I like the part where you don’t know what you’re talking about, defend that, and still come out looking worse than if you had never opened your mouth. :rolleyes:
I might be inclined to believe this, if ya’ know, the proponents of ALM were getting outraged that black folks were getting killed needlessly at the hands of LEOs. But no, they don’t give two shits about that. Instead, they rather save their outrage over verbiage.
So you’ll excuse me if I doubt the sincerity of ALM.
I think you know perfectly well that he is referring to human lives.
I don’t think people realize how scared cops are when they work the ghettos areas. If we could find a new breed of fearless men to be police it wouldn’t be such a problem. The fact is that 50% of the murders in this country are happening in black areas and scared cops are going to make more mistakes. They should be picketing the gang bangers who are causing all this fear and destruction. I have no use for the BLM movement. They have it all wrong. They are a bunch of racists.
Are you saying that sometimes there is meaning beyond the literal definition of words in a phrase?
“I’m not antisemitic; I only hate Jews, not Arabs.”
“I’m not homophobic; I’m not afraid of gay people.”
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All lives do matter. And if we could get the cops to acknowledge this, there would be no need for a Black Lives Mater movement.
It is so odd, then, the cops keep *turning them off *before they deal with black people. Or how they ‘malfunction’ during run ins with black people.
I think a better example is “I’m not homophobic. I think gay people should be perfectly free to marry someone of the opposite sex. All marriages matter, after all.”
THIS!
… Although the first time I heard the motto “corrected” with a very huffy tone, it was by a white female. But then, you did say “nearly invariably”. 
If all lives really mattered to the police, there wouldn’t be a need for Black Lives Matter.
Does this guy look like a gangsta thug to you? Cuz I dunno, he seems pretty clean cut to me.
Philando Castille wasn’t shot in a ghetto. He was shot in a suburb with a small black population.
This guy also looked nothing like a gang banger, unless there’s some kind of new samurai street gang I’ve never heard about. And in lUtah of all places. But the cops still deemed it necessary to put four bullets into him.
Why should we assume this cop is so afraid? He certainly doesn’t seem afraid in the video. Do you act like that when you’re afraid? Are you afraid of guys who are laying face-down on the floor, handcuffed? Afraid enough to kill them?
You seem to be saying that cops aren’t to blame for being so racist that they reflexively equate black men with gangstas. But even before there were such things as “gangstas”, cops killed and brutalized the black citizens they were supposed to be protecting. We can go all the way back to slavery and see what “patty rollers” did to black people. And back then, there were people saying “If it weren’t for these no-good nigras, there wouldn’t be no problems!”
If the police are too stupid to see folks as individuals rather than stereotypes, they have no business “protecting and serving” anyone.
ALL LIVES MATTER
Why? Because ALL lives DO matter. This is a simple statement. The world would be a better place if everyone took this message to heart. All Lives Matter.
Who could object to such a simple, direct, and all-encompassing message of peace and love for all? Psychopaths would top the list. Racists would reject such a message. Terrorists chose to ignore the fact that the lives of those they chose to terrorize are important. And, of course, those advocating for the only Black Lives Matter message.
All lives matter is not the opposite of black lives matter. Both are obviously true and both are obviously compatible with the other.
All Lives Matter is not a subversive message, unless you chose to make it one. And if others are willing to allow you to make it a subversive message. The ALL LIVES MATTER message could be used to bring people together.
It seems to me that, if they were smart, the Only Black Lives Matter crowd could use the ALL LIVES MATTER message to create a larger support base. Instead, they chose to alienate people who believe that all lives matter by calling them racists. How stupid is that!
You’re excused.
I doubt the sincerity of any cause that claims that the statement “All Lives Matter” is somehow racist.
You do understand that words, let alone slogans of any kind, have got more meaning behind them than the directly literal one, don’t you?
Which doesn’t change the fact that ALL lives DO matter.
Calling everyone a racist because they believe all lives matter is one of the most ludicrous PR campaigns ever.
Do you? Maybe you specialize in reading the minds of people you’ve already chosen not to like? Saying that all lives matter can mean that they sincerely believe that all lives matter.
IMHO, people who believe that all lives matter might make for pretty good allies in a PR fight. Or you can chose to call them racists and then wonder why they refuse to support your cause. Isn’t it a bit like saying, “Hey asshole, come over here and help me”? People should stampede to the side of a sweet talker like that. :eek:
It can mean that. It can mean that you’re hungry. It can mean a trillion different things.
In this context it only means one.
In the context, “Black Lives Matter” means “Police are targeting black people”. And in that same context, “All Lives Matter” is in opposition to that. It’s not used as some sort of humanistic vindication.
Funny, that’s what I think about Black Lives Matter…
And if cops, EMTs, doctors and judges showed disregard for the lives of black men strictly within the hazy, ill-defined borders of “the ghettos”, you would have a point.
Uh, the Wu-Tang Clan, helloooo ?
