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BLM is still a harmful distraction because not that many lives are being lost by wrongful police shootings. It would be more beneficial to focus on areas like C
by b6 9y ago
BLM is still a harmful distraction because not that many lives are being lost by wrongful police shootings. It would be more beneficial to focus on areas like Chicago where hundreds die every year (overwhelmingly young black men killed by young black men).
- jaccarmac 9y agoAssuming you're not dogwhistling: My impact on the inner city black youth of Chicago is limited since I am a middle class average white dude. I feel that my time is better spent addressing the police problem since it still is a problem.
- b6 9y agoI'm not criticizing how you spend your time. I'm criticizing BLM for directing our focus onto what is a tiny sliver in the pie chart of how black people die. If they want to fight police brutality, great, but then why are they called BLM? If they want to save the lives of black people, they're doing a disservice by acting as if police brutality is the area to focus on.
- jaccarmac 9y agoThey are free to advocate for what they think is important and you are free to ignore them. Criticizing their area of focus helps no one.
- b6 9y ago> Criticizing their area of focus helps no one No, I think it can be helpful to criticize if people are being misled into picking up pennies when twenties, fifties, and hundreds are falling out of their pockets.
- jaccarmac 9y agoI'm sure the black community will be immensely grateful to you for alerting them to the problems in inner cities. In fact, you can have all the gratitude for "alerting" them to their "lost twenties". I'll stick to my guns.