# Should a White man, let alone a White person care about Black Lives Matter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 27, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540 "2020-07-27T21:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540/81 "2020-08-03T18:23:46Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > As somebody on this board said, if you’ve got 10 bad cops and 1,000 good cops shielding them, you’ve got 1,010 bad cops. 100% agree. I’ve had to cut off social media communications with a police officer friend of mine because he just refuses to grasp the concept that his comments dismissing concerns about his fellow officers reflect extremely poorly on him. I would never have grouped him in with the “bad cop” crowd before, but now I have to wonder. The big difference between protesters being lumped in with rioters and the Thin Blue Line cops is that the cops are doing something to assist the bad cops. The protesters are (for the most part) being taken advantage of by the rioters. Blaming non-violent protesters for shielding the rioters is not valid IMHO, while blaming the cops for not turning in their bad brethren is. Of course that would change if the protesters were somehow aiding the rioters, but there’s very little evidence of that. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540/82 "2020-08-03T22:10:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The protests alone didn’t do it. Colin Kaepernick, for example, led peaceful protests for years and all people did was get annoyed at him. It was only when an element of looting and vandalism was introduced that people became scared enough to start doing the right thing about the killings. I’m not sure how much the difference had to do with violence, and how much with the number of protestors. Kaepernick was for the most part out there all alone. ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer98765431](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bouncer98765431](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer98765431)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540/83 "2020-08-04T07:04:47Z")
HelLO-O Dont even like how the question was phrased. Let’s see Hmm if [you] were lynched, should we give a rat’s ass? You probably think it was noble of you to even ask the question. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540/84 "2020-08-04T16:29:24Z")
Hmm? What are you on about? And all moral people would oppose any lynching of any non-criminal on principle. I’m not sure this can be sensibly disputed, even by people who _do_ support capital punishment of a cruel and unusual variety. ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer98765431](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bouncer98765431](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer98765431)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540/85 "2020-08-04T16:57:02Z")
Nevermind, don’t want to waste your time by going on about things…not until black lives matter will all lives matter. God bless [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540.md?page=4)