• Steve@communick.news
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    5 months ago

    They may have willfully misrepresented, but couldn’t really have an excuse to mistakenly misinterpret them. That was our bad.

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      5 months ago

      Is your argument that a genuine, good faith interpretation of “Black Lives Matter” is “Only Black Lives Matter”?

      This isn’t how English works. If I say “I like your mom” to an SO, they wouldn’t interpret it as I don’t like them and instead like their mom. I don’t have to say “I like your mom too”.

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        Anyone coming back with “all lives matter” proves the ease of confusion over the slogan.

        My own immediate response to it was “Yah, of course they do. All lives matter. Why single out Black lives? The police shouldn’t be killing anyone.”

        I’m not going to try mind read anyone else.

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          5 months ago

          People who go out and counter protest actively have given it more than a cursory thought. They know BLM isn’t advocating for white genocide (okay, most of them understand this. There are some literal nazis/skin heads/white nationalists in the counter protesting groups that believe in The Great Replacement, but they believed this prior to BLM existing).

          Yet they still go out and counter protest. It’s not confusion at that point. You can’t go up to an all lives matter reactionary and say “Hey! Did you know BLM doesn’t actually want to murder all white people? Are you a fan of BLM now?” and actually expect any progress.

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        5 months ago

        It should have been called of course black lives matter then move on from the stupid race baiting movement and get back to living.