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I may agree with the message, but Imagine reading all this while zooming down the highway
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Am I missing something or is “Why wouldn’t Black Lives Matter?” Kind of a restatement of “All Lives Matter”?
Seems out of place with the rest of the messaging.
Oh I get what you’re saying but it took me a minute. Given the target audience (I presume) of the rest of the stickers, this person is likely saying “Why wouldn’t Black Lives Matter?” to the people against it, rather than saying it to the people in the BLM movement. I think the meaning changes depending on who the receiver is.
I read it as a challenge to society like:
"Why are we even discussing this of course they do, get your act together society"
You are misreading that
"Black Lives Matter" is frequently misinterpreted (either intentionally or not) to mean black lives matter more than others, thus the reaction "All Lives Matter." I think this sticker kind of disarms that reaction.
They're a little confused but they have the spirit
All lives matter is true, the message got hijacked by the wrong people, but it is still true that no matter your skin color your life matters and you should have the same opportunities and be treated fairly by authorities and so on and the message is inclusive of all communities facing racism, because black people might be treated the worst (along with First Nations if we're being honest), all non-whites are still victims and even whites of the "wrong" socioeconomic background don't get treated the same as well off whites.
Now, the sticker itself is just a way to ask the question to those against the BLM movement... "Please, explain why their lives shouldn't matter exactly?" You can't answer that question without being racist
No.
Black lives matter isnt saying "black lives matter more"
Its saying "stop treating us as subhuman"
"All lives matter" is white americans trying to suppress that by misconstruing the original statement as wanting more than what others get in terms of civil rights and treatment by police and others.
It is also dismissing the complaints or the black community. While as an objective view it may be true that most americans agree with the denotation od the phrase "all lives matter," it pretends that we have already achieved equality (absolutely not the case) and that blm is getting "uppity" and wanting privileges white americans don't (which white Americans hate more than anything)
ETA: there is also sometimes the assumption of an implicit "only" at the start of that phrase ("only black lives matter") when in reality its an implicit "too" at the end ("Black lives matter too")