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Originally Posted by Livia

Are you saying that all lives don't matter?

I'm so tired of this sectioning off of society... All lives matter, black, white, male, female, gay, straight, Jew, gentile, Muslim, transgender.... ALL lives.

No, and nobody who is a part of the Black Lives Matter movement is saying that all lives don't matter either. Rather they are saying that black people's lives do.

It is such a simple concept for people to get their head around. There is a massive issue in the US with black men and women disproportionately being killed at the hands of police officers. It has to stop. The movement is campaigning for acknowledgement that this is an issue, and that the lives of the black people who are being killed in these incidents matter just as much as a white person's or anyone else's and that they must not be ignored.

It is not a competition, it is not a 'our lives are more important than yours!', it's a 'our lives are just as important as yours!'. Nothing more, nothing less

These same idiots who scream the obvious 'all lives matter' statement miss the concept completely, in much the same way they don't understand why straight pride doesn't need to be a thing and nor does white history month. These movements are about the recognition of oppressed minorities, not a chance for them to say they're better than anyone else. Just that they are the same.

It's very straightforward.