re: If "All Lives Matter" Is a Racist Slogan, Then Whose Lives Don't Matter?

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All lives matter. You said you agree black people face oppression, so what would you personally not understand about a black lives matter slogan? ?

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Ok, I see your reading comprehension skills are non-existent.

Please, please, please provide ANY link where I stated I didn't under the BLM movement. Any fricking link or STFU.

Let's try this one final time.

I can EXPLAIN it to you, but cannot COMPREHEND it for you...

The original question reworded was why is it racist if someone believes that all lives matter. Nowhere did I state I didn't understand the BLM movement. NOWHERE did I state the BLM movement was wrong/bad...NOWHERE!!

Provide a link to back up your lies or stop making up lies about me bitch...

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Asking again, please provide a link.

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Lol at soy boy sammy. It can't provide a link to back up it's lies, so it downvoted my request.



You really showed me bitch...

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Are you really moronic enough to think he is pretending to not understand?

Don't answer....rhetorical question.

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You're really muddied it now.

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Have at it, keep on losing your good fight

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How bad am I losing?

Will it be the same kind of landslide loss that Trump suffered against Hillary?

Oh the horror....

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Rightfully so. The issues go much further than black folks, but I dont expect indoctrinated people to understand

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So do you acknowledge there are issues? If so, can you give an example?

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Whether you agree with the political message or not, it's not hard to understand the implied message in the slogan. Why are you playing dumb?

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So, EVERYONE that states that all lives matter is actually implying something else? Really? Lol.

Why, because you and your moronic ilk state so?

Are SOME people using that to condemn BLM? Yes, I'm sure there is a very small minority that are. However, I truly believe that MOST people of all colors and races truly believes that everyone's life has value.

So, lets just state what YOU think is being implied: Everyone who feels that everyone's life matters REALLY actually mean that everyone's life matters EXCEPT black people.

How in the hell can anyone make that leap?

ETA: I really don't think you are playing dumb. You have proven that you don't have to play.

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Could someone, please, please, please just explain to me in a logical, reasonable fashion why "All Lives Matter" is considered racist?

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Here goes.

First and foremost, the slogan "black lives matter" does not and has never meant that other lives don't matter, or that others matter less. There is an implied "too" at the end, and it would be extraneous and unnecessary to include it. Other examples are "back the blue" and "support our troops". When someone says "back the blue", should we interpret that to mean that they do not also support our troops, firefighters, and others who certainly also matter and deserve our support and respect, just because they didn't say "back the blue, too"? Absolutely not! That would be an absurd assumption. The simpler form "back the blue" simply calls attention to police, and it in no way implies that others deserve any less attention.

Do you agree so far? Assuming that you do, it is important to keep that in mind as the context for the rest of the logic.

"All lives matter" is an excellent slogan and principle for living our lives. It adequately describes the mindset we should all have, every single day. Out of context, it is perfect, and no reasonable person can argue against such a slogan. But context matters (too). In this case, the context in which "all lives matter" is used is almost exclusively in response to "black lives matter". This is evidenced by search trends, social media, face to face encounters, etc. And just as "black lives matter" omits the implied "too" at the end, "all lives matter" omits the implied "no" or "hold on" at the beginning. To the earlier example, if you say "I back the blue" and in response I say "I support all of our servicemen and women", that would take away from your cause. By bundling your support of police into my own cause of supporting a much broader group, I have superseded and overshadowed whatever reason you had for calling specific attention to police officers. In effect, I have said that I don't care that you support the police, and that they are not important enough to be highlighted without also including others at the same time. Again, this is only the case if I say it in response to you saying that you back the blue, OR in the context of a widespread "back the blue" movement. In any other context or situation, proclaiming my support of ALL servicemen is perfectly fine.

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Who really cares about all lives when they say that?

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I mean a decent human being would.

How many yes does this have to be explained to you all. Nah you just want to understand that's what it is

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How many yes does this have to be explained to you all. Nah you just want to understand that's what it is

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Use grammatically logical English please to rephrase that statement so it can be interpreted.