Summary for those who don't want to say BLM

[Bill_B_NY]

Black lives do matter, but only if all lives matter.

That’s it.
And all lives matter only if they were created with meaning, purpose and an eternal destiny.
Without that, the BLM slogan is empty. Why should any lives matter?
If the baby in the womb can be killed, as BLM supports, then it’s all a contradiction.

 

[blackforest]

Emphasizing one life matters or doesn’t matter strictly because of ones color is the very definition of racism. Highlighting someone’s race in saying their life matters is indeed racist.

Then why be pro-life? Emphasizing that one life matters strictly because of one’s location and level of development is the very definition of ablesim. Highlighting someone’s level of development in saying their life matter is indeed ableist.

(I don’t actually believe that -just making a point).

All lives matter.

Therefore black lives matter. Glad we can agree.

I will not echo their slogan under any circumstances.

Somehow I’ve managed to support the notion that black lives matter without toting a hammer and sickle in the process.

 

[vz71]

No, it doesn’t mean that at all.

I hope people are actually watching the very tiny video!

Yes, it does.
It has been a political point for some time now.

 

[OwlObsidian]

I will not echo their slogan under any circumstances.

Somehow I’ve managed to support the notion that black lives matter without toting a hammer and sickle in the process.
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Of course you can except the notion that black lives matter, I don’t anyone, including myself, would ever say the lives of black people do not matter. The problem is that the agenda of blm has expanded far beyond fair and just treatment of black individuals.

It would be more like flying a hammer and sickle flag, and saying its only because you believe in the equality part but not all the other communist stuff. Its hard to half use a symbol.

I’ve seen these protests in person, I know all the things they preach. Its not something most of us would want to be a part of.

 

[Daisy]

The slogan is “black lives matter”. Not “black lives matter more.”

Don’t black lives matter?

Well put. I used to be completely against the phrase, and my knee-jerk was that it was racist and superficial. But, the point of the catch phrase is to acknowledge that black people are equals, are loveable, and should never be treated unjustly. The point of the phrase is to acknowledge that black lives weren’t mattering, or at least, that people with black skin colors, generally, felt persecuted, and were not where they wanted to be, socioeconomically.
I refuse to use the hash tag, though. At this point, it communicates way more than I want it to. It’s snowballed into a marxist, bullying, monster.

BLM has empowered black people who feel they have been treated injustly, and it is good to empower people towards justice. But, essentially, the phrase really is superficial. Does it also feed the insecurities caused by being superficial? I dont know. I still have mixed feelings about it.