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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Would it not be better to have a group called All Lives Matter? I hate to open up this can of worms because I hate to critique any social movement striving for equality, but I've always felt as though some groups lose support for their movement due to the fact that their name can be interpreted as divisive.
Maybe "Can't All Lives Matter?" would be an even better choice, the acronym CALM even has a nice ring to it
Just my 2 cents
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I think the biggest problem for this is that such a group would have much less focus and therefore be less effective in reducing the particular form of police violence BLM was created to protest. Black Lives Matter focuses on police violence done to black people due to racism and classism which in the United States is something that specifically needed more attention.
I can't say I'm convinced the group of people that go by BLM are being very productive in their aims,but I think that BLM is in principle a useful name for a group that focuses on this particularly egregious form of police violence in the United States while still leaving room for a group that that focuses on police brutality more broadly.