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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Since two men were executed in two days and no threads were started I figured this had become the defacto BLM thread.
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And that basically spells out the problem, and why things like BLM matter and "All Lives Matter" is ignorant and useless.
Everyone knows white lives matter. 5 cops die, a couple of them white, we get a thread that blows up, huge story. Same way in the media, things go crazy.
An innocent black man gun downed by police? No worries, happens all the time, it's not race related it's because they're poor! Or had a bad upbringing! Or some other stupid excuse that completely fails to recognise the impact of systemic racism in the US.
Everyone in North America knows that "All lives matter," but do they know that black lives matter, too?
Clearly, they don't. That's why the group exists. Some of the arguments in this thread have been incredibly naive.