Black lives matter protestors block roads in the uk

[ApeNotKillApe]

It's an act of public masturbation.

[abaris]

But it's incorrect to say I know nothing about them.
I know they are young, that they do have nice clothes and nicely done hair.  I know they don't have to be in work or looking after children or anything more important than lying on a motorway today.

Ah, the art of deduction. Who's your Dr Watson by the way? Might have missed some clues though, such as the possibility of taking a day off or something like that. Kids at granny's .... just saying.

You know nothing about them other than their appearance and an agenda you don't like, which doesn't tell you anything at all, other than serving your own prejudiced views.

[Faith No More]

It's not about their lives it's about the latest hashtag.

Their hashtag matters more to them than the general public (including non white people and every other minority) being able to go to work, see their family, use the roads they pay taxes for.

And how do you know this? Did you stop to talk to them? Or are you just assuming that, since it's an organization you disagree with, it must be for superficial reasons?

[SteelCurtain]

Then why call it 'Black Lives Matter'? Brand recognition?

For the same reason that a breast cancer rally calls itself Breast Cancer Awareness.

[Faith No More]

For the same reason that a breast cancer rally calls itself Breast Cancer Awareness.

Prejudice!

#AllCancersMatter

[paulpablo]

Then why call it 'Black Lives Matter'? Brand recognition?

For the same reason that a breast cancer rally calls itself Breast Cancer Awareness.

But then they focus on breast cancer.

His point was plainly obvious.

If there's a movement focusing on Islamophobia, transgender rights, racial sexism, classism and racism  then why call the group black lives matter.  

The title insinuates a prioritization upon one group of people based on racial characteristics just as breast cancer awareness insinuates a prioritization of one single body part.

[ApeNotKillApe]

Then why call it 'Black Lives Matter'? Brand recognition?

For the same reason that a breast cancer rally calls itself Breast Cancer Awareness.

But breast cancer is actually a problem...?

[SteelCurtain]

For the same reason that a breast cancer rally calls itself Breast Cancer Awareness.

But then they focus on breast cancer.

His point was plainly obvious.

If there's a movement focusing on Islamophobia, transgender rights, racial sexism, classism and racism  then why call the group black lives matter.  

The title insinuates a prioritization upon one group of people based on racial characteristics just as breast cancer awareness insinuates a prioritization of one single body part.

The title is saying there is a real issue with police brutality in America against black people. We need to focus on that for a bit. It is not saying "Only Black Lives Matter." It is saying "Black Lives Matter As Well," which seems to be something that is forgotten. The racial bias in even reporting these things is obvious. Whenever a black person gets arrested, media plays his mugshot, but a student at Stanford gets convicted of brutally raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, and they show his class photo. Black people are routinely convicted and sentenced to longer sentences for the same crime with the same recidivism as white people of the same age and gender. Black people are quite clearly murdered in plain sight by police in this country---and the police are literally never held accountable.

The movement started in America, and the name has recognition now across the globe. So if black people in the UK have co-opted the movement for it's name recognition and added other goals to the platform, that's their business. The original movement has the primary goal of stopping police brutality, stopping the targeting of black youth in criminal justice, and de-militarizing America's police forces.

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For the same reason that a breast cancer rally calls itself Breast Cancer Awareness.

But breast cancer is actually a problem...?

I'll let you troll someone else. Coward.

[Losty]

I know you hate white people but it's a motorway, there's going to be more than just white people using it.

Who hates white people?

I do! I fucking hate the lot of em. If I could, I'd block every god damn road until all white people agreed to stop being white!

[Edwardo Piet]

And for the fourth time:

I know you hate white people but it's a motorway, there's going to be more than just white people using it.

(my bolding)

Who are you saying hates white people?