• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    What? A left wing movement that uses the wrong name to make people understand what they truly mean? Really? Nah, that would never happen!

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      2 months ago

      Adversaries to a movement will split hairs and redefine a movement anyways.

      That’s all we are seeing here. Look at now they tried to frame Black Lived Matters, something quite clean cut.

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        2 months ago

        No. We suck at naming things. And communication in general.
        “Black Lives Matter Too” would have been more clear.
        “Replace the Police” would have been better also.

        Even mainstream Democrats suck at it. They should be shouting every day, how they’re taking on big corp’s, going after antitrust abuses and unpaid taxes; While refusing to audit anyone making less than $250,000. But instead they just keep saying some variation of “The economy’s great, stupid.”

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          Leftists can name things appropriately. You just proved that. It’s the “moderate” “liberals” that run the DNC that have the issue. That’s just because they are desperately trying to to convince the right that “there won’t be any significant changes,” while still pandering to the center. They don’t care about the left except to make us shut up and sit down.

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          2 months ago

          They would have willfully misinterpreted both of those alternatives and convinced you they were poorly named anyways.

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            2 months ago

            They may have willfully misrepresented, but couldn’t really have an excuse to mistakenly misinterpret them. That was our bad.

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              Is your argument that a genuine, good faith interpretation of “Black Lives Matter” is “Only Black Lives Matter”?

              This isn’t how English works. If I say “I like your mom” to an SO, they wouldn’t interpret it as I don’t like them and instead like their mom. I don’t have to say “I like your mom too”.

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                2 months ago

                It should have been called of course black lives matter then move on from the stupid race baiting movement and get back to living.

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                2 months ago

                Anyone coming back with “all lives matter” proves the ease of confusion over the slogan.

                My own immediate response to it was “Yah, of course they do. All lives matter. Why single out Black lives? The police shouldn’t be killing anyone.”

                I’m not going to try mind read anyone else.

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        2 months ago

        BLM was a scam, a grift… that’s an undeniable fact.

        What was achieved? Because what we witnessed was violence, theft and property destruction. If you deny this, you are willfully ignorant or a bold faced liar.

        Oh and Malcolm X was right. More Black people should study Malcolm X and his message.