SoonerBounce13
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All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter are basically ways to impugn Black Lives Matter. That's why it gets push back.
Of course, on the surface, every life matters, which includes lives of the police.
The mainstream Black Lives Matter movement is different because the accusation is that systemically, a black life did not matter, or doesn't matter now. It was never assumed that white lives didn't matter, or that police lives don't matter. But many black people feel like a literal underclass economically, socially, stuck in poor communities, make less money for the same work, stuck in bad schools, and in the eyes of the state (of which the police and criminal justice system are apart).
To the average person not considering it... I can see how you would think, "yea, I think cop lives matter". Of course, but by that logic, I could have the following movements:
- Blue Lives Matter
- Horse Lives Matter
- Dog Lives Matter
- Vampire Lives Matter
- Shopping Mall Santa Lives Matter
- Etc...
Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter then, is a counter protest movement. That's why people get bent out of shape about it. That's why ONLY people who don't like the Black Lives Matter movement dig in on Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. It's not because anyone thinks white lives, asian lives, police lives, etc don't matter. It's because white lives, blue lives, etc are not an underclass, and are not a victim of systemic oppression. Those movements ONLY exist in response and as a counter to an idea that Black Lives Matter.
missing the point.
BLM is a political movement