When you respond to 'Black Lives matter' with 'All lives matter' you miss the point. OF COURSE all lives matter, but there are people and societal systems in America that treat black peoples' lives as though they don't. That's why the slogan focuses on 'black lives'.
I haven't seen people do that in this case tho. Racism is racism. But with BLM people are drawing attention to how it is disproportionate towards black people in America
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I understand that, and indeed, I’ve learned quite a bit in the last few days (for instance, being a German, I didn’t know about the systematic nature of racism in America), however, I also came across this:
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...he said, forgetting to put in the picture he was referring to. Sorry.pic.twitter.com/iHCYnjqbjj
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