About BLM

[Nay_Sayer]

There's a George Floyd memorial graffiti artwork gone up in my town, and that got me thinking today about the death of (young, innocent, white) Tony Timpa through his being crushed to death by police and his pleading that he couldn't breathe, like Floyd, while the cops joked and laughed as they slew him. There are zero grafs memorialising his killing, let alone a global protest movement. Perhaps I'm a coward...but, well, I can do this on an anonymous internet forum, surely. In the name of equality as well as a stand against police brutality:

White Lives Matter!

FSM weaps at your stupidity.

May he unharden your heart one day.
RAMen

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I am glad you weighed in on this.  I have been under the impression that athene is not all that thrilled with the BLM movement and now it appears that you also don't consider them allies.  That's a side many of us need to hear and take in.  

With all the grousing and carrying on over adopting a BLM logo on the forum header and snarky remarks about those of us who didn't jump right on that bandwagon, it's good to hear how this movement really plays to black members of the forum.  I freely admit my ignorance in having knowledge of the movement and just wasn't on board with running that flag up the pole to see who salutes.

A lot of people here would like to be of help when it comes to the racial divide in this country and others but I don't think any of us really wants to start by doing something that isn't going to help and may, in fact, harm.

I've said multiple times that when I used the term BLM, I wasn't thinking of the movement, and I corrected myself. We've established that it's not actually a BLM banner I was thinking of, but rather one that shows support and solidarity with our black members and visitors, so they just *might* feel like there is a space that accepts them without saying "Well, what about us?!" Turns out, all I did was highlight the fact that such a space doesn't exist here, and to put up a banner like that would only be false advertising. I've abandoned the idea, myself. The only submissions we got were from the guy who's a cunt hair away from shouting white power in every thread about BLM, so I'm surprised we even have black members. So, don't worry, everyone. Since we can't seem to extend an olive branch without asking for one in return, we won't be giving away olives here at Atheist Forums.

Editz or whatever your name is, fuck off.

That wouldn't stop you from giving editz an unremovable custom title/rank (Or name change) that says BLM