Why do people who believe that #alllivesmatter not thus have a problem with crushing the throat of someone who wasn’t an immediate threat to the life of anyone? If all fruits are important, why are they protesting people who want others to stop wasting apples? It’s a Venn Diagram thing where one circle completely fits in the bigger circle, so obviously desecration of the inner circle should be offensive if they are humanists. Right? Apparently not. The protest isn’t #BlackLivesMatterMoreThanWhiteLives . You can’t call yourself a humanist and think a subculture wanting to sit at the equality table is thus making your table worth less. The other thing that puzzles me is how all Americans pretty much look at others abroad who are in simpler societies like they are subhuman. #BlackLivesMatter, but isn’t it kind of racist for those people to be complacent about protesting the bombing of civilian populations abroad or even torturing people who raised up arms against us when we invaded their country that had nothing to do with 9/11? Just saying. For the most part, I see racists on both sides. The blacks however are in our own backyard though, and it’s upsetting when we don’t give a shit about them because they look different, which is what ultimately racism boils down to. It’s a vestigial instinct towards tribalism, when if you look at humanity from the perspective of biology, we thrive on diversity and complexity, not one’s mere ability to egocentrically identify on racial lines.
So yes, #BlackLivesMatter, because some officer just crushed a dude’s throat and killed him despite clearly having control of the situation to the point to where they could kill him in public. Well yeah. I grasp reverse prejudice. As a generalized group, Europeans have done some fucked up shit. However looking globally, I don’t really see innocent cultures. How many blacks were rioting when Bush’s senior advisor said the Laws of Warfare didn’t limit us in the realm of torture from torturing the children of unlawful combatants? I do realize they aren’t in power, though neither am I as an individual, and that is a huge chunk of the divide going on. Most white people are not well positioned socially to be of much assistance to even their own needs. It’s the increased rhetoric that concerns me. The goal of the demagogues is not cooperation, but domination.
Mostly, racist whites need to look in the mirror and realize they don’t see blacks as human if they need to feel the need to protest #BlackLivesMatter on the grounds that it somehow makes their life worth less. That is a big fat false dichotomy. It’s deliberate and I don’t think it’s innocent. It’s about an instinct towards domination that is inherently human. I think it’s kind of a self absorbed vestigial instinct to act on though.
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