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Allow me to explain why the 'All Live Matter' hashtag is awful.

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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.

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Carfacemandog

Interesting idea over rethinking policing in the US, from Illinois' attorney general - make police officers licenced like nurses, lawyers and doctors.

https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-top-legal-officer-wants-to-license-cops-just-like-doctors-hairdressers/9a8b6505-4283-4975-ad2f-8b653e96da73
“I think it’s the responsibility of the legislature to do what they’ve done for many other professions to have consequence for repeated misconduct or single acts of egregious misconduct,” Raoul said.

“If they have an egregious act of official misconduct or a pattern of such, they can have their license taken away such that they cannot participate in that profession anymore and that should be the same thing for a law enforcement officer who is capable of using deadly force in carrying out his or her duties.”

1800_Ladladlad

"How dare they point guns at us while we trespass on their property" [outrage signal]

1800_Ladladlad

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1277419543065837568

The funny thing about this is it's a private street with many signs stating and a gate that states no trespassing. but yet the double-digit IQ gang are having a meltdown screaming that its a side walk.

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https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1277435223412805638

oyvey

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1277419543065837568

Looks like a scene from The Purge.

Kermit.de.frog

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1277419543065837568

VicMackey1

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

BLM doing what they do best. Attack and damaging cars like this is pathetic. It adds nothing and takes away from those who are racially abused

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1277310245333725187

To be fair, that car is far too white!

Hannibal36

Golf is my Game wrote: »

Mammy?

Or maybe Shaniqua.

Golf is my Game

Hannibal36 wrote: »

some Generic Black name.

Mammy?

Hannibal36

At the end of the day we have got to accept this for what it is.It is class warfare,the op on this thread has basically said every poor White person is a terrible human being end of story and it has a lot of likes,it tells us exactly where we are at.

Poor Whites have to accept middle class and rich Whites telling them you are poor because you aren't as good as us and you underachieved,but in the current system somebody has to occupy the poor White class no matter how hard everyone tries.

How many Middle class White women liked that original post i wonder,i bet you would change your tune when some Black guy decides you disrespected him and labels you a "Karen" and decides to go after your job.

Are all the middle class White women here happy to be a "Karen" or do you feel you are safe?you have enough diversity around you to never be a "Karen".I can only imagine the reaction if Black women were being hounded by White men,following them,recording them and Labelling them some Generic Black name.

Quantum Erasure

saw this posted on the ukpolitics reddit, Gainsborough Primary School | Parents guide to Black Lives Matter

heres a link to the PDF handbook
https://www.gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/06/Parents-guide-to-black-lives-matter.pdf

some quotes:

For some families, particularly white or non-black people of colour, discussions on race
and racial inequality may feel like fairly new territory. It can be easy to get used to not
thinking about racial identity if it doesn’t personally impact us negatively during
everyday life.

When we talk about white privilege with our
children, you’re not saying life isn’t sometimes
tricky or that hardship doesn’t exist in white
communities. Rather, when explaining white
privilege you’re saying that hardships or difficult
moments experienced in life are not a result of
your skin colour.
This can be explained in childfriendly
hypotheses such as ‘imagine if I had a
chocolate bar and I gave it to every white person
for free but made black people pay.’
...

Black history goes much more beyond slavery, and it’s important to learn about the rich
history of Africa before this era. In contrast to some of portrayals we see of Africa being an
impoverished, suffering continent with a dark past, Africa during the Moor Civilisation (until
1500s) was well-respected, with many conquests and contributions towards European
culture

Quantum Erasure

#GreenLeavesMatter

1800_Ladladlad

:D:D

https://twitter.com/BBCCountryfile/status/1277277327639154688

mouldybiscuits

BarnardsLoop wrote: »

I would gesticulate vaguely towards the number of news stories that've come out over the years but... well, it's clear some people just want to bury their heads in the sand over this.

Can't think of any reason they might want to do that, though...

Where is the evidence that these people were targeted because they were black? Correlation does not mean causation. These news stories come out all the time with white people too but it doesn't suit the media's agenda. Not too long ago an elderly white man (WW2 veteran) was beaten and burned alive by a young black man and it wasn't even major news. Make no mistake this is a political movement. The media are provoking chaos to get Trump out.

ingalway

I'm waiting for an apology from Tom Cruise for Far and Away

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oyvey

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

BLM doing what they do best. Attack and damaging cars like this is pathetic. It adds nothing and takes away from those who are racially abused

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1277310245333725187

Some guy: What is all this about?
"Protester": (shouts in his face repeatedly) Black lives matter, bro!

Just shows how empty-headed some of these idiots are. They don't even know what they're trying to achieve.

1800_Ladladlad

BLM doing what they do best. Attack and damaging cars like this is pathetic. It adds nothing and takes away from those who are racially abused

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1277310245333725187

Golf is my Game

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

I could keep going. The utter hypocrisy of BLM and it shows no end

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Thats feckin shocking. A man of colour has just as much right to act Margaret of Anjou as any woman of colour.

1800_Ladladlad

I could keep going. The utter hypocrisy of BLM and it shows no end

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Quantum Erasure

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

There is an awful lot of these knocking about online that shows the hypocrisy of it all.

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indeed...

wait, what?

1800_Ladladlad

I guess Phil LaMarr voice acting in Samurai Jack was wrong too? Or it doesn't apply in this case??

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Hannibal36

oyvey wrote: »

I'm actually at the point now where I think it serves at lot of these voice actors right to be hit financially for being out of a job if they're so intent on showing the world how 'virtuous' they are.

I think in a couple of these its less about being virtuous and just jumping out of the way of twitterati train they sensed was coming right at them.

oyvey

Rockbeast2 wrote: »

"I now understand that people of color, should always voice people of color. We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese-American community accurately and respectfully, and for that I am truly sorry. I applaud all those who stepped away from their voiceover roles in recent days. I have learned a lot from them."

Hell, that reads like something handed to a captured Allied pilot in the Gulf War to read in a propaganda video.

...in a cartoon world where the main character is f***ing horse-man...

oyvey

I'm actually at the point now where I think it serves at lot of these voice actors right to be hit financially for being out of a job if they're so intent on showing the world how 'virtuous' they are.

Golf is my Game

Its probably also why Idriss Elba didnt get the Bond movies.

1800_Ladladlad

Rockbeast2 wrote: »

"I now understand that people of color, should always voice people of color. We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese-American community accurately and respectfully, and for that I am truly sorry. I applaud all those who stepped away from their voiceover roles in recent days. I have learned a lot from them."

Hell, that reads like something handed to a captured Allied pilot in the Gulf War to read in a propaganda video.

With an old Toshiba, camcorder on front of her.

Golf is my Game

I still think its wrong that there a lot of Pakistani or Indian actors in England who now cant really do Shakespeare and all the white rolls that they could do in the passed. Its acting ffs. Now, if coloured people are saying only white English people can act those parts its just making an nonsense of what acting is - pretending to be something that your not. Which could cause them financial difficulty as well, just because some other have a view on who can or cannot be a certain character.

Rockbeast2

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Alison Brie now. I wonder who is next

https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1276929361904574465

"I now understand that people of color, should always voice people of color. We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese-American community accurately and respectfully, and for that I am truly sorry. I applaud all those who stepped away from their voiceover roles in recent days. I have learned a lot from them."

Hell, that reads like something handed to a captured Allied pilot in the Gulf War to read in a propaganda video.

1800_Ladladlad

Alison Brie now. I wonder who is next

https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1276929361904574465

TomTomTim

Hannibal36 wrote: »

Do people realise that indigenous Irish people are placed behind all immigrants when it comes to social housing in this country this is actively happening here.

Agree with everything else, bar this. It's something I've wondered about for awhile, and I think what happens is that immigrant families simply have more kids than Irish families, so they go straight up the top of list. You're correct for the most part in that they do end up getting houses first, but I don't think there's a specific policy of housing them first, it's just a product of the amount of kids they have.

1800_Ladladlad

There is an awful lot of these knocking about online that shows the hypocrisy of it all.

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