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All lives do matter. The lives of white people killed by police do matter. Why would you insist 100% of coverage be about your personal (racially scoped) cause?
by leereeves 8y ago
All lives do matter. The lives of white people killed by police do matter. Why would you insist 100% of coverage be about your personal (racially scoped) cause?
"All lives matter" is not suggesting the "firetruck" should ignore the "house next door" (black victims of police violence).
BLM, on the other hand, is suggesting exactly that: the firetruck should ignore the white victims.
- mikepurvis 8y agoI'm just some guy on the internet, so my words won't mean anything to you; you'll need to hear it from someone you're able to hear. But your argument is against a strawman. No one is asking for white victims to be ignored, and no one is asking for "100% of coverage" to be about injustices against blacks. Obviously the lives of white people murdered by cops matter, but those murders get attention and sympathetic coverage by default. Those are the crimes where people start to ask whether policing as an institution needs to be reformed, instead of asking whether the victim was wearing the right clothing or was sufficient subservient or had just committed a petty theft. All that BLM activists and their sympathizers are asking for is to see similar coverage across the spectrum. That so many whites see this as an attack is just indicative of how much work there is yet to do.