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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.
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")