I might as well make a reply here on the board of my favorite movie of the past year, before the IMDb boards shut down.
I'll first say, I definitely disagree with the stupid whiny comeback phrase "All Lives Matter" or whatever.
"it was us saying we feel like we don't matter or that we don't feel like we're apart of all lives that matter."
I'll try to break down what, exactly the phrase "Black Lives Matter" seems to communicate.
It seems simple enough; literally, that the lives of black people, (especially individuals who are not being severely threatening or dangerous at the time) are valid and worthy of taking steps to avoid killing, specifically by unnecessary deadly force by mostly-white, mostly non-black police.
When you think of what that slogan is actually saying, it is actually a very obvious message.
So, who exactly out there believes that Black Lives Don't Matter, as if using deadly force might as well be a first resort for the sake of convenience because a black person getting killed is no worse a tragedy than a bug getting squashed or some disposable roadkill?
The slogan "Black Lives Matter" implies that there's some group of people who actually need to be "reminded" or "taught" that black people shouldn't be killed so casually. Who are these people who think that Black Lives Don't Matter, who need to be convinced otherwise?
I have a hard time believing that the fewer than a few hundred police officers https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/ responsible for killing maybe a few hundred black people in, for example, the year 2015, under dubious circumstances, took their often-split-second decisions so casually, let alone that they did so because they thought that "meh, who cares if I use deadly force, this suspect is a black person and they are kinda a dime a dozen and disposable and there's too many of them anyway" even on some "subconscious level"
Maybe the phrase grew so popular because it is very bold or radical to "have to" remind people that it's a tragedy for black people to suddenly get killed under sudden, dubious circumstances rather than something that wouldn't have really mattered anyway if they had continued to live because their existence was pitiful, meaningless or bothersome to society or whatever.
Also because it's a quick and easy short slogan.
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mrmoo2001
8 years ago
The phrase "All Lives Matter" stems from the fact that the phrase "Black Lives Matter", regardless of its origins, has become a black supremacist slogan, used by people who would see fit to grab the mic at a service dedicated to the people murdered at the Pulse nightclub (who were murdered because and only because they were gay) to whine about how blacks are the target of oppression (ha, you thought I was going to mention the BLM kidnappers who livestreamed the torture of a disabled Trump supporter, and look at that, I have!) meaning that is really has come to mean "Only Black Lives Matter", hence the necessity for "All Lives Matter", and indeed, after the BLM call for the death of police officers along with their actual murder at the hands of BLM, "Blue Lives Matter" has become necessary.
Did I just say necessity? Well, it's not really necessary I guess. But it sure pisses off a lot of racist black people, and that's good enough for me.
Take them to the security kitchen!
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