re: Somebody enlighten my privileged white arse on why #AllLivesMatter is racist

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I understand your point. But don't you think that the statement "black lives matter" to a white person has some weird underlying assumption that the white person somehow thinks "black lives don't matter"? I mean , isn't at least a little insulting, in that it assumed that the white person needs to be reminded and lectured that black lives matter?

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Insulting at best, racist at worse. Blaming racism for all black problems and calling whites racist has been done so often that it has lost shock value. It just doesn't work anymore...so the insulting perception that "black lives matter" indicates that whites are racist is dismissed. Either that, or it's interpreted as "non-black lives don't really matter"....in which case it's dismissed as openly racist and hateful.

This is why "black lives matter" is not considered a good-faith movement even before its supporters start looting and rioting.