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All Lives Matter
#61
RE: All Lives Matter
In the minds of many Americans, it is a GIVEN that white lives matter. They need to be reminded or worse yet, convinced of black folk's individuality and humanity; that "The Blacks" aren't simply troublesome, violent herd animals, fit to be profiled, corralled, and put down unceremoniously, without repercussion.

I think you know and understand all of this just fine, Kitan. I won't speculate as to why you pretend you don't.
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#62
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 22, 2017 at 1:45 am)Lutrinae Wrote:
(June 22, 2017 at 1:44 am)Jesster Wrote: Did the "Save the Whales" slogan really mean "fuck all aquatic life except whales"?

Yep.

It should have said, "Save all aquatic life".

Really? So you're saying - terrestial life is not worth saving? Why do you want all land plants, fungi and animals - including all humans - dead?  Rolleyes

Yeah, you didn't think this through, did you?
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#63
RE: All Lives Matter
Kit, I was going to say I like you, but I'm scared everyone else here will assume I hate their guts!
Please advise?
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#64
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 22, 2017 at 4:17 am)ignoramus Wrote: Kit, I was going to say I like you, but I'm scared everyone else here will assume I hate their guts!
Please advise?

Shoot, I like him. I just can't let things go when I see them as so obviously wrong. I have a condition.

We can all still share a nice McDonalds happy meal when this is over.


I don't believe you. Get over it.
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#65
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 22, 2017 at 2:57 am)Thena323 Wrote: In the minds of many Americans, it is a GIVEN that white lives matter. They need to be reminded or worse yet, convinced of black folk's individuality and humanity; that "The Blacks" aren't simply troublesome, violent herd animals, fit to be profiled, corralled, and put down unceremoniously, without repercussion.

I think you know and understand all of this just fine, Kitan. I won't speculate as to why you pretend you don't.

That really should be /thread.
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#66
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 22, 2017 at 1:20 am)Lutrinae Wrote: I fail to see any false conclusions in what I stated in my OP.

Careful. Your white privilege is showing.
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#67
RE: All Lives Matter
You leave my mate Kit alone ...He is the victim here! He is being persecuted and he's not even religious! Tell 'em Kit! This is a completely different type of ignorance, isn't it mate?
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Know God, Know fear.
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#68
RE: All Lives Matter
Considering that the slogan being discussed came about as a result of cops shooting unarmed black people and suffering little or no consequence for it, I don't think the phrase can be logically termed 'racist'. If news reports are any indication, the police and the courts in the US seem to have taken the position that black lives don't matter as much as other lives. The slogan is simply a reaction to that.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#69
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 22, 2017 at 1:47 am)Whateverist Wrote: Jeez, this again?  Black lives are in crisis.  The police shoot them at a higher rate.  The justice system locks them up at record rates and with heavier sentences.  Historical disadvantaged beginning with slavery.  Black lives are the ones which are systematically abused and disadvantaged.  Of course all lives matter but the saying calls attention to the lives whose mattering seems to have been overlooked.  What is the problem with that?

Don't forget the number one cause of death for black males age 15-35.

In white males the rate of suicide is higher than homocide for a lot of the age groups, maybe someone should be telling them white lives matter.


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#70
RE: All Lives Matter
Okay, whose dog shat on the carpet here?

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