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For years, every time someone says "All Lives Matter" I'm reminded of this quote:

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

To give people the benefit of the doubt I assume they're just taking it literally and being reflexively pedantic. But then again, didn't this start by Nancy Pelosi saying it, or something?

And to be fair, there's some truth to it. For example, the interactions between police and native americans, or mental illness cases. The statistics are even more frightening. But people saying "ALM" never even mention issues like those! So I'm skeptical.

And behind it there's this odd logical conclusion that saying "Black Lives Matters" will lead to the bizarre result of police never killing another black person... but other minorities are still valid targets! Heh, does anyone think that's a likely outcome?

If (if) people are saying "All Lives Matter" with good intentions, I think they should be aware that they're diluting and derailing the original message, because that can cause great unintentional harm. I mean if you want to specifically focus on police brutality, there's already a movement for that: Police Abolition. (I think complete abolition might not be realistically possible, but reduction would be a pretty good start)

Can't think of a conclusion.

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Fuck yeah, abolish the police! Join us LibSocs and AnComs, Hazey!