Is there a single race in this planet's history which has not been victimized and persecuted, either by their own or other races? Arguments like these baffle me sometimes. You do know slavery and other despicable things like Auswithz (forgive my spelling of it) weren't invented in the last few centuries?
So, black people who fought for black freedom against white oppression in a time of segregation and where it was okay to get beaten and murdered on the street because somebody didn't like your skin are comparable to the salute of a people who actively took part in the deaths of something around 6 million people?
The Black Panthers primarily sought to end oppression, and to maintain and preserve black culture and identity and avoid assimilation. Black superiority or supremacy was certainly never a central tenet. Trying to draw parallels between that and what the nazis did is bad enough, but to then go on to say that white people doing the black power salute is the same as a Jewish person doing a nazi salute is just completely fecking insane. For that to even make sense, the Black Panther Party's goal would have to be the eradication and extermination of white people in America. It wasn't, they just wanted white people to treat them as equals, for police to treat them as they did white people, and for black culture and identity to be able to thrive.
I think someone actually posted links from Breitbart to buttress his/her point.
It doesn't bother me if they carry on taking the knee or not. I've gave me views in that it's served purpose and there needs to be a new message.
You're just making yourself look worse with every post you make. Writing off protests against racial inequality as "people getting bored and blowing off steam" is incredibly fecking dismissive and condescending, and shows just how completely ignorant and out of touch you are. And a white dude telling black people how they should go about protesting, against their own oppression none the less, is never a good look. In fact it's an extremely fecking bad look, because who the feck are you to say that? Who gave you the right to decide how they should go about it?
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I found this the best description, but you'll see similar ones everywhere.
Coming from you?! fecking hell. You've learned absolutely nothing.
Good to see you finally coming out as a racist. It's not good to suppress your real self, and it's good for others to be able to see you for what you really are. Not that you were doing a particularly good job of hiding it, but still.
We thought it might be best to let the great posters we have here contribute and help educate but sometimes there's lost causes I guess.
The phrase All Lives Matter isn’t racist, it’s also not racist to not understand why that phrase misses the point of what BLM is about. If you don’t know, you don’t know.
And at this point, when people go "actually All Lives Matter™" it's pretty safe to assume they're being willfully ignorant pricks.
I'm banging my head against a wall at how people still come out with drivel like 'all lives matter', it is as though they have been living under a rock ever since that phrase has been uttered and discussed to death... or at the very least they're wilfully ignorant.
Exactly this, and this will always be the case. This is why misinformation is originally spread about causes like this, because the more shit you throw at something the more will stick in people's minds and they then feel justified in dismissing it. Some people will just straight up fall for it but most know exactly what they're doing.
Wrong.
The analogy about going into a breast cancer ward and declaring all cancers matter is a good one, and if that doesn't make people get the point then they're willfully choosing not to listen because their true intention was just to dismiss the movement.
To be fair and I’m not defending anyone specifically but it’s easy to make the mistake that the premier league still supports BLM, the taking the knee was introduced under BLM, they still take the knee and BLM banners are still in the stands and shown on tv throughout the game. I missed that the premier league changed the word to be honest and just seen it in this thread.
Safe to assume that most are, at best, being willfully ignorant, yeah.
I don't think @SuperiorXI is giving credence to "all lives matter", just subtly pointing out the actual meaning of the phrase Black Lives Matter.
Who knows? I ain’t gonna have a go at the guy, there’s enough of that going round as it is.
Do you live under a rock?
