"All lives matter" was the "sit down and shut up" response to Black Lives Matter. Black America was never saying "ONLY black lives matter"…
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
They were just saying, rightly, that black lives seemed to be valued less, since they were more "disposable" at the point of a gun.
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
So when you reply to "black lives matter" with "all lives matter", remember that while your statement is true, it's also a loaded phrase.
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
A phrase that was shouted back to "hush" a community mourning the loss of their sons, daughters, fathers, mothers.
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
You don't show up to a funeral and say "Actually, we're all pretty great. We're all beloved here. We all matter." You mourn the loss of life
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
And if that life was taken unjustly, you commit to make the hard decisions to prevent the further loss of life.
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
That's what the Black Lives Matter movement is. It's not a terrorist organization. It's not telling you that you don't matter.
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
It is trying to stop the loss of life. That's something we should support. Not hush. Not minimize. Not obscure.
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Replying to @ThreeTwoEephus
Agreed. Perhaps BLM followers could resist advocating the killing of cops like you can see all over the internet?
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Replying to @DBurrowtx
you can find extremists behind any movement; the *vast* majority of BLM leaders & protesters are explicit in their nonviolence.
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Agreed on the first part, on the second, I'm not so sure facts back you up on that. But let's just be baseball friends.
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