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Originally Posted by ResAlien
A good breakdown of why the all lives matter response is dumb. From Reddit
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Problem is that story could be rewritten in a way that could say "only" is implied before "black lives matter"
Would the person who wrote this story say that when the kkk runs around yelling "white power" that they are really just saying "white power...too" as if they wanted everyone to be equally empowered?
To say that all lives matter doesn't include black lives "too" is really a stretch, at least in how I define "all". It says that it doesn't provide enough focus or direction on the issue to fix the current problem, so that is suggesting if black people are the only race being continually killed by unprovoked police officers, a group called all lives matter won't focus on that? If the response to that is: "well they would be busy focusing on other atrocities" I would ask how would they not have the resources to protest the same issues if the people in what is now called BLM were in a group called ALM instead? Same amount of activists choosing to protest an issue.
As much as I disagree with some of the methods groups like PETA and green peace use to get bring attention to their causes, I respect the fact that they are universal in their beliefs and strive for any type of positive impact for their causes.
I just hate the thought of a well intentioned group of activists setting themselves up for possibly avoidable resistance over something as simple as a misinterpretation of what they represent because of their name.
As a person who agrees with the goal of black lives matter, I want to see them achieve this goal in any peaceful way possible, but I feel their name may give people the wrong impression and not only hold back their progress, but also gives certain groups (like the kkk) an easy way to build up support against their cause.