Saying Marxism or being anti-white is bad is "rACiSt"? I saw this on the news not an hour ago. None of the signs/stickers they showed said anything derogatory about minorities. Yet the people in the article describe them as "hateful" and "reprehensible".
Now, don't get me wrong, I do think there's a very good chance there are racist white people in the group that posted these messages. Maybe even all of them. But as is? These messages are not hateful. At all. you can sat BLM, but not WLM? Now, THAT'S racist.
We understand that other people have "issues" with it. We also understand that you are unable to articulate what those issues are, in a way that does not look absurd. Which is why you hesitate to even try.
How do you know that? At a BLM rally the other summer they were shouting “shoot the white folk”, clearly there are situations where White Lives don’t matter.
Me personally I prefer to say All Lives Matter, it’s far more inclusive than BLM or WLM.
I've never understood why people like you, OP, even bother to wade into politics if you are incapable of understanding such basic arguments. So, much like I would with a child, let me explain it to you via allegory
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Let us say that you are a dog owner. And now let us pretend that there is a crazy person that likes to go around killing stray dogs. Your neighborhood becomes aware of the problem of a serial dog killer, so as a response you put up posters around the neighborhood saying "PLEASE, DO NOT KILL DOGS"
Now, a cranky neighbor who owns a bunch of cats and dislikes dogs comes along and tells you "Hey! What about my fucking cats?! So it's only wrong to kill dogs, but you're not putting up posters saying not to kill cats? That's discrimination against cats!"
Now you tell the neighbor "No, you're missing the point. We put up these signs because somebody is killing dogs!"
And your neighbor responds "But killing cats is also wrong!"
And you say "I never said it wasn't wrong! I'm just putting up signs about dogs because those are the the animals that the serial killer is targeting!"
And your neighbor says "Fuck you! Cat hating piece of shit! Take down your signs because they imply that cats don't matter!"
Now let us say that you identify the serial killer as that grumpy neighbor. However, he isn't WRONG that cats should also not be murdered, so some people who own cats begin to echo his rhetoric. They aren't dog killers, but they take his statements at face value: if cats should not be killed then how come there are only signs that say that dogs should not be killed? The dog owner victims must only care about dogs, and they don't care if cats die or not. It isn't wrong to say that cats also matter, right?
It isn't, obviously. The only problem is that the person who made that argument did so to deflect attention from his crimes
Nah, not at all. It's willful ignorance. Most people approach political issues with their minds already made up. It doesn't matter how you break down an argument, they'll just ignore it, misrepresent it, or try to explain it away
If someone drove an actual, electrified Bradly tank that said "White Lives Matter" through a black neighborhood, it would be destroyed and anyone inside would be killed, whereas a Prius that said "Black Lives Matter" would go unnoticed, driving through a white neighborhood.