(06-09-2020 10:46 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-09-2020 10:39 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-09-2020 10:31 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-09-2020 10:07 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-09-2020 09:58 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  And yet your cute little gif avoids any of the topics that OO notes when talking about 'All Lives Matter'. I thought you were a tad above gif-boy in that regard. Perhaps not.

It perfectly responds to it.

Saying "Black Lives Matter" does not mean that other lives do not matter. Same way Jesus wasn't saying other people aren't blessed.

It's just a much more succinct way to present that idea.

But yet saying 'All Lives Matter' is now at the forefront of the Maoist cancel culture 'get rid of list'. Please dont dance around that 'nuance'.

Not sure what most of that means.

But the reason this saying is, at best, a stupid line, is that it intentionally tries to imply that Black Lives Matters doesn't care about others. This line of thinking suggests that there should be no special causes, because focusing on a special cause is anti-all other causes. Should we not support Rice football because we have other sports that also need support?

So we shouldn't have cancer specialists because other diseases and illnesses matter. We shouldn't have farm aid, because urban aid matters too. It's a rhetorical tactic meant to diminish the concerns that affect black lives.

Should we support track if we will be attacked and called antifootball if we do?

Track Lives Matter does not mean Football Lives don't. But the football crowd chooses to interpret that way.

It is the response to saying All Lives Matter or Blue Lives Matter or even Hispanic Lives Matter that creates the problem. Physical attacks, if possible, labeling as racist if more remote. Anything more universal than BLACK lives is racist, it seems.