Changing the banner to promote BLM

[Rev. Rye]

The current banner isn’t toxic and not wanting to change it isn’t toxic. It is simply not enough reason to change it.

I'm forever astounded at the minuscule lengths people are willing to go to avoid simply saying, "I want to see an end to racism." Here, and in real life, I see people I would've never considered racist refuse to take any kind of hard stance against racism. They can't even say black lives matter, even when out of the context of the BLM movement. They wouldn't dare attend a protest because they may be seen as anti-cop. They wouldn't go out of their way to support black people because there are just so many other causes out there that they're also doing nothing about. We wouldn't want to be seen as controversial or anti-white. I've seen all these positions and more over and over again.

It probably makes a lot more sense when you consider that maybe (in practice at least) people’s moral compasses tend to work in self-serving ways and that as long as certain injustices don’t happen to them, they don’t matter. Why, yes, that is a cynical worldview, but I think it goes a long way toward explaining that phoenomenon you just described.