That is your takeaway from those posts? You've been provided a decent explanation of the subject at hand, and yet you're focusing on the same bit that all other classic racists seem to be focused on.
No, it was no take-away or anything like that. Please put things into context. The person before basically accused me of "not liking the BLM-movement, even though i am supposed to be pro-equality". My answer just suggested that i never said that i am against BLM, because i think its a good thing, i was just (from my starting point) questioning why 'white life matters' is instantly branded as racist. (this is not a new question or a takeaway, its just where i was coming from. I never critisized the BLM movement itself).
It's Tommy Robinson, who is famous for being a racist feck-wit
But you know that, I just wanted to see what you came up with
Because they are white?
How am i supposed to know? You can read in my name, my location and from my "sorry for my bad english", that i am not from England. So what am i supposed to think if you just send me a picture of a bunch of white people smiling into a camera without any further context and a comment like yours? Am i supposed to think they are racists because of their looks?
Your first sentence in this post would have been good enough to answer my starting question "why is 'white life matters' instantly branded as racist?". If i would have known that it was coming from an well known racist, then my question would have been answered far enough to my understanding and this case would have been solved far earlier.
Put simply a bunch of Racists are attempting to divert attention from a thoroughly deserving and desperate cause (BLM) on to one which does not matter (White Lives Matter) and is not urgent nor the people suffering from.
Try and understand that on its simplest level in its purest form, that it is a Racist device at a time when no one had any reason to insist that it mattered.
I get what you mean and where you are coming from with your point, but i think there actually also are some white people in the US which are suffering from racism and stereotypes.
But i understand what you are trying to say. But i have the (sometimes bad) habit to think too deep into a very complex topic.
Let us say I am a climate change activist, my symbol being the polar bear, and I proclaim that ‘polar bears matter’. If you come back with ’all mammals matter’, you’re subverting and mocking my message. You’re technically right as all mammals do matter, but it’s clear there was not an attempt at honest discourse.
It depends on the context. Wasn't it the case in the US that since the George Floyd incident many (mostly innocent) white people, many cops too, had to suffer from revenge attacks for example? I don't want to go too far into the topic now because it seems proven as a racist act (the white flag thing), so this discussion doesn't make any sense any more i guess.
This isn't the first time he's made these sorts of comments, so there's already a pattern. I think you're right that we have to try to give people the benefit of the doubt when we can, but that has limits for me.
I guess you are referring to my comments in the 'blackface' thread a few weeks ago. Yes, i was not educated on that topic and i was wondering why Griezmann was critized so hard, because it didn't seem that he had any bad intentions with his costume, and the intention behind peoples actions are what matter the most to me personally. So it's okay for me to tell the person (in this case Griezmann) that this was not cool, but completely cancel/judge him and his reputation goes waaaaay too far for me.