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Police Officers Lives Also Matter.
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Police are armed to protect the public, the criminals are armed to defend themselves from the police once they have committed a crime using their guns, the public are arming themselves with heavier weapons to defend themselves from the criminals who are getting heavier weapons.
And so, the carousel goes on and on and on......
And so, the carousel goes on and on and on......
Some people have undoubtedly co-opted and perverted the "Black lives matter" movement for their own ends, but the slogan is absolutely not exclusive in the way people who reply "all lives matter" back. Of course they do. The recent death of yet more policemen is shocking, tragic and wholly unwarranted as a reaction. But just to be clear, if someone says "Black Lives Matter", they [should] mean it in the same way as a slogan to "save our rainforests". Saying that wouldn't mean "I don't care about any other type of forest"; merely that, at the moment, the rainforest is particularly under threat currently and so merits extra attention. Black people in the US are, or appear to be, particularly in danger of police discrimination ending in death (by about 2 times proportionally, compared to White people). Hence, a "Black Lives Matter" slogan is wholly reasonable. It doesn't mean not caring about any other type of life. There's no reason to respond "All Lives Matter" as if we didn't know this already. It misses the point.
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On Twitter it has already reached the stage where the pedantic, language-obsessives' trotting out of the truism "all lives matter" is viewed as an insulting attempt to negate the original problem and/or sweep it under the carpet.
It is as if some people see BLM and read an invisible "only…" into it. They kept it short to save letters, for Twitter but the missing operative word is "…too", or "…also". They began by imploring white America to treat them equally.
Which it was conspicuously failing to do. As in "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it my tazer".
On Twitter it has already reached the stage where the pedantic, language-obsessives' trotting out of the truism "all lives matter" is viewed as an insulting attempt to negate the original problem and/or sweep it under the carpet.
It is as if some people see BLM and read an invisible "only…" into it. They kept it short to save letters, for Twitter but the missing operative word is "…too", or "…also". They began by imploring white America to treat them equally.
Which it was conspicuously failing to do. As in "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it my tazer".
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