iamstop wrote: » If you are using the 'alllivesmatter' hashtag and don't know any better or are confused why people are mad at you let me explain it: 1. The original hashtag 'BlackLivesMatter' was a reaction to a string of well documented cases of police brutality that resulted in the death of a long list of unarmed black people. On top of that there was no appropriate punishment for the police officers involved. They mostly got paid or unpaid leave until the heat died down and continued back at their jobs after that. Meanwhile the families and friends of the deceased got no justice. This sends shockwaves of trauma throughout the immediate community, the country of the US and the rest of the black population outside of the US too. This original hashtag started to really shine a light of the system wide oppression of black people in America and elsewhere. 2. The oppressors decided that this hashtag would gather too much momentum and decided they needed to water it down and dilute it with 'alllivesmatter' to protect the racist system that they benefit from. And to some degree it's working (COINTELPRO). Every time you use that hashtag you are doing the work of the oppressor. You are being used as a pawn. You are being manipulated into diluting a movement that's main goal is end police brutality. 2a. Nobody using the 'BlackLivesMatter hashtag is saying Only Black Live Matter. It is universally understood that all lives matter. 3. So, now that you are educated on the deceitful and hateful and manipulative reasons for this 'alllivesmatter' hashtag to exist you should stop doing the work of the oppressor and stop using it and stop being used. 3a. If you've read all this and understand it and still use the 'alllivesmatter' hashtag then shame on you. You are a terrible human.
silverharp wrote: » I wonder who thought "matter" was a good word? its a very low bar.
iamstop wrote: » Kivaro wrote: » I wondered if this man thought he was living in Minneapolis and not in Ireland. But if he one of the large percentage of Africans living off welfare in Ireland, he should be made aware of the privilege of the white people who are going to work in the morning in order to sustain this man's comparatively luxurious welfare lifestyle for the rest of his life. This is pure fiction. You've no idea what he does for a living. He could be a doctor for all you know. But you want to assume the worst and think he's sponging. Even if he was on welfare, does that mean he deserves some racial abuse now and then? What's your whole point here? Ridiculous.
Kivaro wrote: » I wondered if this man thought he was living in Minneapolis and not in Ireland. But if he one of the large percentage of Africans living off welfare in Ireland, he should be made aware of the privilege of the white people who are going to work in the morning in order to sustain this man's comparatively luxurious welfare lifestyle for the rest of his life.
iamstop wrote: » Even if he was on welfare, does that mean he deserves some racial abuse now and then? What's your whole point here? Ridiculous.
Top Editor of Philadelphia Inquirer Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter’ Headline Stan Wischnowski, a 20-year veteran of the paper, stepped down days after the publication of an article that led to a walkout by dozens of Inquirer journalists.
Kivaro wrote: » I wondered if this man thought he was living in Minneapolis and not in Ireland. But if he one of the large percentage of Africans living off welfare in Ireland, he should be made aware of the privilege of the white people who are going to work in the morning in order to sustain this man's comparatively luxurious welfare lifestyle for the rest of his life./QUOTE] This is pure fiction. You've no idea what he does for a living. He could be a doctor for all you know. But you want to assume the worst and think he's sponging. Even if he was on welfare, does that mean he deserves some racial abuse now and then? What's your whole point here? Ridiculous.
MOH wrote: » The authorities really dug themselves in a hole when they failed to do anything about the Gemma O'Doherty/John Waters idiot protestors. Makes it harder for them to criticise the current lunacy without being tweeted as racist. And nothing is worth that, whatever the public health risk. (I'm also finding it really bizarre that protestors for Gemma O'Doherty and BLM share common characteristics)
StupidLikeAFox wrote: » This is a fairly common opinion - that people are just joining the protest to jump on the bandwagon and look cool by participating in the latest cause. Is that based on anything? Any evidence that people are doing it to look cool and not because there is an issue there that needs to be addressed? Btw I agree that the protest should not have gone ahead today due to covid, but I also acknowledge that there is a lot of casual racism around the place and that is an issue that is frustrating for a lot people (whether they are black, white or other). Also people are more than entitled to feel aggrieved at the situation in America, whether it directly affects them or not, and the US embassy seems like the appropriate place to protest about that in Ireland
[Deleted User] wrote: » The sheer lunacy and herd mentality of people (mostly white) who are using all that's going on at the moment to prove they are oh so virtuousis is maddening.
whisky_galore wrote: » We don't have 'Feds', do they even know what country they're in?
whisky_galore wrote: » It's easy to tell a handful of Debenhams workers to go home, a lot harder when it's a couple hundred, some of whom who'd love nothing more than a dig from a guard caught on camera phone.
Gatling wrote: » Exactly while screaming the feds the feds
iamstop wrote: » 2a. Nobody using the 'BlackLivesMatter hashtag is saying Only Black Live Matter. It is universally understood that all lives matter.
Gatling wrote: » More likely they have been told no to get involved for fear of mass civil disobedience and riots ,
ExMachina1000 wrote: » I'm not talking about the "protest". I'm talking about going forward. Anytime they have to deal with any problem with someone who is a non national (don't even have to be black) there will be cameras on them and clowns ready to scream racist. Its going to be a problem. You might say well if the guards don't do anything wrong they don't have to worry. To that I say that's not how it works in reality
joe40 wrote: » From the news article "One Garda remarked, it is very peaceful, very well organised" Guards aren't getting hassle.
joe40 wrote: » From the news article "One Garda remarked, it is very peaceful, very well organised" Guards aren't getting hassle. I do however think the protest should not have happened with Coronavirus restrictions still in place. I would have no problem with the protest but not at this time.
ExMachina1000 wrote: » Imagine the hassle of being a garda now.
iamwhoiam wrote: Do you honestly think that those who are protesting today are all stupid ? They are listening to the message being drilled into us daily to keep our distance . Unless they are very very stupid they must have got the message by now
Joeytheparrot wrote: » You cant have equality if black lives dont matter
iamwhoiam wrote: » Do you honestly think that those who are protesting today are all stupid ? They are listening to the message being drilled into us daily to keep our distance . Unless they are very very stupid they must have got the message by now
