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The objection is to your making light of protests focused on people being executed in the streets by their government because of their skin color.
by coldpie 11y ago
The objection is to your making light of protests focused on people being executed in the streets by their government because of their skin color.
- DonHopkins 11y agoSo do you believe that by discussing black dogs and cats being executed in animal shelters, I'm taking away from the focus on people being shot in the streets? Do you think I'm only capable of being concerned about one problem at a time, and I shouldn't care about black dogs and cats until all of our world's other problems are solved?
- DanBC 11y agoYou know there's a "Black Lives Matter" slogan, right? Feel free to talk about the death of animals - it's an important topic - but linking your campaign the the murder of humans by police officers is, and I say this as politely as I can, fucking stupid.
- DonHopkins 11y agoAre you aware that you sound like a right wing concern troll trying to make #BlackLivesMatter activists sound stupid?
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- hyperpape 11y agoI doubt it, and neither am I. I also thought your initial use of the hashtags to be in poor taste.
- logfromblammo 11y agoI actually find all uses of #-delineated keywords on Hacker News to be in poor taste. HN is not Twitter. It does not turn hashtags into clickable links. Until such automatic-linking support exists, as with HTTP URLs, it would probably be better to paste an HTTP URL for twitter.com that searches for the most recent tweets with the relevant hashtag word or phrase. That also removes the personal connection to the keyword. Rather than promoting a given phrase yourself, you are pointing to a community that has elected to use it by consensus, as a reference that may be useful for further information on the topics introduced in your post. Given the nature of hashtags, one person can hardly be held solely responsible for them. They aren't particularly useful unless a lot of people independently agree to use a particular word or phrase.
- coldpie 11y agoIt has developed into a meme/style of speech. It's not purely a functional thing.
- DanBC 11y agoYou're the one drawing equivalence between the death of pets and the murder of black people by police.
- eimai134 11y agoThere is no law that we can't be concerned about animals lives until all people's lives are better.
- DanBC 11y agoYou're missing the point. I don't care whether people campaign vigorously to prevent abuse and needless death of black animals. But to use the line #blackdogsmatter, clearly derived from #blacklivesmatter, is idiotic.
- DonHopkins 11y agoSo do you approve of using #BlackHolesMatter to protest the heat death of the universe, because it's a much bigger and longer term problem, which affects many more life forms than #BlackLivesMatter?
- eimai134 11y agoWe have free speech and people can use whatever hashtags they want to. Outside of organizing a terrorist plot or conspiring to kill someone, people have the right to speak and write what they choose.
- eimai134 11y agoYour opinion. There are plenty of people who don't think #BlackCatsMatter is idiotic.
- eimai134 11y agoSave the animals - #AllLivesMatter