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I think this very view is likely what made the coinbase workplace so toxic and uninviting. "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with

by beaner 6y ago

I think this very view is likely what made the coinbase workplace so toxic and uninviting. "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with. "Black Lives Matter" is a political organization with political objectives, including the de-emphasis of the nuclear family, socialist economics, and explicit financial funnelling to the Democrat party. It's a moral "package deal." The idea being that if you reject BLM for its bad politics, you reject that black lives matter. And if you accept it, you also accept a bunch of other shit you're not actually for. BLM should be recognized for the moral "package deal" that it is, and vehemently rejected. It's dishonest. It's not Coinbase that is conflating anything, BLM itself is a conflation of ideas.

sneak 6y ago
> "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with. The fact that you believe that is probably most of the problem.
- beaner 6y ago
  Oh come on. Have you ever tried to find one person who actually, literally believes that the lives of black people do not matter? You'll certainly find 11-year olds in Call of Duty who will say it for shits and giggles to control you; you won't find anybody who actually believes it.
  - sneak 6y ago
    I personally know dozens of people who don't care at all about black lives one way or the other. I've seen hundreds more that I don't know personally demonstrate that belief publicly, many of them police officers. The disparities in policing, application of police violence, and prosecution are well-documented. This is why the movement exists. It's a real problem, whether you personally have experienced it or not, whether you personally wish to acknowledge it or not. There are many people out there who simply do not think that it matters whether or not black people live or die. Many of them are in uniform.
    - beaner 6y ago
      The statistics are well known, and they do not support your conclusion.

by beaner 6y ago

sneak 6y ago

> "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with. The fact that you believe that is probably most of the problem.

beaner 6y ago
Oh come on. Have you ever tried to find one person who actually, literally believes that the lives of black people do not matter? You'll certainly find 11-year olds in Call of Duty who will say it for shits and giggles to control you; you won't find anybody who actually believes it.
- sneak 6y ago
  I personally know dozens of people who don't care at all about black lives one way or the other. I've seen hundreds more that I don't know personally demonstrate that belief publicly, many of them police officers. The disparities in policing, application of police violence, and prosecution are well-documented. This is why the movement exists. It's a real problem, whether you personally have experienced it or not, whether you personally wish to acknowledge it or not. There are many people out there who simply do not think that it matters whether or not black people live or die. Many of them are in uniform.
  - beaner 6y ago
    The statistics are well known, and they do not support your conclusion.