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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

If i am totally wrong then why are an awful lot of peoples first reaction to hearing Black Lives Matter that All lives matter?
The Gorrilla thing happened on the back of the BLM slogan so context was already established.

Because they're trying to downplay the fact that there is actually a problem and Black peoples lives are treated as less important than white peoples

Re the Gorilla thing, well those people who made the slogan must have understood what BLM meant then