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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Well why don't they just make their slogan 'black lives matter too' to stop any confusion?Having a slogan like that which implies that only black lives matter is bound to cause controversy.
Some of these blm people actually do think that only black lives matter and are racist.Those are the ones who give blm the bad reputation they have and detract from their cause.Most black people are killed by other black people but they don't go protesting over that.

..BLM is a raising of awareness though, NM...and like any raising of awareness of anything, it's not saying that any comparisons aren't of equal importance, just that it's focusing on something in particular ...I mean, we don't say 'this is a Race for Life for breast cancer because we feel that breast cancer is of more importance than any other cancer', type thing..it's just that the focus of raising awareness in anything is..well, focused on one thing, I mean always, surely .....so the use of 'too' is not really necessary and shouldn't be...that in itself would seem to me to justify more than anything else, the BLM campaigners....so it's understandable the frustrations and (yes anger..)..felt with 'all lives matter' because it completely dismisses any thought at all...


....slightly off topic but just because the #gorillalivesmatter thing has been mentioned and I hadn't heard of that until this thread....I found that quite interesting as well, the way the media attention in the immediate after days were very focused on the boy's family in terms of delving into their background and his dad being an ex drug addict and having a criminal record etc.../I didn't see any relevance at all to what happened and the death of Harambe....that we had so much negative information/background given about the family...