I know this is just emphasizing it but I don’t know how anyone saw “white lives matter” as anything other than anti-black rhetoric.
Like, I can believe that a genuinely ignorant but well-intentioned liberal thought “all lives matter” was valid because they were more concerned with being nice than real justice, but “white lives matter” could never be anything other than racist.
“all lives matter” is a reaction from misinterpreting “black lives matter” as “only black lives matter”, rather than its real declaration of “black lives matter too”.
that’s why “all lives matter”, well-intentioned as it may be, is an issue.
I know this is just emphasizing it but I don’t know how anyone saw “white lives matter” as anything other than anti-black rhetoric.
Like, I can believe that a genuinely ignorant but well-intentioned liberal thought “all lives matter” was valid because they were more concerned with being nice than real justice, but “white lives matter” could never be anything other than racist.
All Lives Matter is a perfectly fine position to have, just like thinking that all genders should be treated equally.
The problem is when you try to use that position to say that people aren’t allowed to focus on systemic violence against a specific demographic.
“all lives matter” is a reaction from misinterpreting “black lives matter” as “only black lives matter”, rather than its real declaration of “black lives matter too”.
that’s why “all lives matter”, well-intentioned as it may be, is an issue.