Current Events > If All Lives Matter, then Black Lives Matter is a good thing

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All lives matter, but not all lives face the exact same struggles, so we need to listen to different groups to understand how to uniquely solve their problems. It doesn't make sense to scream at activism for one issue just because there are other issues. All issues require different activism.

Crying about BLM is like crying that a children's cancer activist must not care about the issues of healthy children, or adults with cancer.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Crying about BLM is like crying that a children's cancer activist must not care about the issues of healthy children, or adults with cancer.

But what about Aids? Does Aids not matter to you

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You're not going to logic people out of a stance they've taken based on spite.
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Antifar posted...

You're not going to logic racists out of a false stance they portray because they're racist.

FTFY

I read the mission statement of BLM. I can say black lives matter all day, cause they do. The group? Nah.

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Antifar posted...

You're not going to logic people out of a stance they've taken based on spite.

Yeah I know...

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A sizeable issue with BLM is simply bad marketing. The other main issue being outright racism, but that's not a crowd that will ever support the cause. It was simply a bad slogan that some people clung to and then screamed at others for not understanding. It took years for it to finally make a proper impact.

That's just bad marketing. The audience in this case that you're trying to ally with is often ignorant. You can't leave room for misinterpretation. No one's going to misunderstand things like "Justice for Breonna" even though it's not catchy.

It's weird to say, but I feel like a lot of social issues would benefit from hiring a capable team to help create a campaign. Instead we get a lot of slogans that obfuscates the issue and everyone cries about poor communication.

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