Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists. Petition reached 100,000!

[McZealot]

lmao what major news source would publish something polarizing and not side with the left

Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, the Las Vegas Review, the Dallas Morning News, New York Post...

Even FOX News would be a more reliable source than an Illuminati conspiracy website.

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[Lord Tony®]

"All lives matter" is considered a racial slur by BLM activists.


WHAT THE forget! So we have to apologize when we say all lives matter?

Actually yes, when some guy said "black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter" he got so much hate he had to apologize for saying white and all lives matter.

[McZealot]

Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now, that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that you still haven't gotten any!

The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out.

That's the situation of the "black lives matter" movement. Culture, laws, the arts, religion, and everyone else repeatedly suggest that all lives should matter. Clearly, that message already abounds in our society.

The problem is that, in practice, the world doesn't work the way. You see the film Nightcrawler? You know the part where Renee Russo tells Jake Gyllenhal that she doesn't want footage of a black or latino person dying, she wants news stories about affluent white people being killed? That's not made up out of whole cloth -- there is a news bias toward stories that the majority of the audience (who are white) can identify with. So when a young black man gets killed (prior to the recent police shootings), it's generally not considered "news", while a middle-aged white woman being killed is treated as news. And to a large degree, that is accurate -- young black men are killed in significantly disproportionate numbers, which is why we don't treat it as anything new. But the result is that, societally, we don't pay as much attention to certain people's deaths as we do to others. So, currently, we don't treat all lives as though they matter equally.

Just like asking dad for your fair share, the phrase "black lives matter" also has an implicit "too" at the end: it's saying that black lives should also matter. But responding to this by saying "all lives matter" is willfully going back to ignoring the problem. It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. And so saying "all lives matter" as a direct response to "black lives matter" is essentially saying that we should just go back to ignoring the problem.

TL;DR: The phrase "Black lives matter" carries an implicit "too" at the end; it's saying that black lives should also matter. Saying "all lives matter" is dismissing the very problems that the phrase is trying to draw attention to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3du1qm/eli5_why_is_it_so_controversial_when_someone_says/ct8pei1

[kidplasma]

I dislike BLM as much as the next guy, but getting to to be identified as a terrorist group seems like an uphill battle. Unless they've claimed the riots, shootings, lootings, etc. I'm interested to see the outcome though.

"All lives matter" is considered a racial slur by BLM activists.


WHAT THE forget! So we have to apologize when we say all lives matter?

Actually yes, when some guy said "black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter" he got so much hate he had to apologize for saying white and all lives matter.

I actually remember reading on what an activist said on this. They claimed that they know all lives matter, but that it "denotes the cause that they're fighting for, to remind us that black lives also matter a much as white lives." Or some bullstuff like that.

EDIT: Zealot got it.

[Lord Tony®]

If white people die more from police why are we not holding white lives matter protests? Or would it be tribal for a white boy to do so?

[Red Spy]

If white people die more from police why are we not holding white lives matter protests? Or would it be tribal for a white boy to do so?

Because the media doesn't care about white people

[Lord Tony®]

Because the media doesn't care about white people

Sounds more of a reason to start white lives matter.

[Red Spy]

Sounds more of a reason to start white lives matter.

You make signs I'll make the website

[Mr. Bones]

Signed.  Blam this piece of stuff movement.

[Insert Name Here²]

You make signs I'll make the website

I'll start the ad-campaign

[Red Spy]

I'll start the ad-campaign

Great, let's get to work team!

[Insert Name Here²]

Great, let's get to work team!

YE

[JitankIsFag]

Such a privlegde

[PhantOS]

I'll start the ad-campaign

and ill start the petition to get you guys declared terrorists

[#Jeetlor]

Lol I feel like people are signing this for the lols