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Ray Trace

*cough*

I wouldn't say that if I were you. I know you don't understand the true intentions behind the words, but I do: it's a phrase commonly used to deflect Black Lives Matter and has seen usage by white supremacists.

Hot Cocoa

Well, not just Black Lives matter, But Asians, Latinos, Whites, Gays, Trans, Everyone.

Ray Trace

Yes, that's correct! But Black Lives Matter has an inherent "too" to it, and broadening the stroke to include everyone is an empty platitude that ultimately doesn't solve anyone's problems since the focus would be too broad to be applicable. I mean, I've seen this with people deriding feminism, that it's bad because it ignores men's issues, it focuses on only one gender, but that's actually not true. The goal of both feminism and Black Lives Matter is to focus on issues specifically dedicated to women and black people respectively to give them an equal playing field in society.

However, the term "All Lives Matter" is co-opted by white supremacists to downplay the unique issues black lives face, which is why I'm uncomfortable seeing it in the forum, even though I don't think that's your intent.

Ray Trace

Here's a post from someone on Reddit that sums it up pretty nicely

Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now, that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that you still haven't gotten any!

The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out.[...]

[...]Just like asking dad for your fair share, the phrase "black lives matter" also has an implicit "too" at the end: it's saying that black lives should also matter. But responding to this by saying "all lives matter" is willfully going back to ignoring the problem. It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. And so saying "all lives matter" as a direct response to "black lives matter" is essentially saying that we should just go back to ignoring the problem. It all goes back to the unspoken rules of spoken English.

Hot Cocoa

Sorry for making you uncomfortable, BLoF. That was not all my intent. I edited the OP.

Ray Trace

That's okay. I knew that wasn't your intent. Just take it away as a learning experience and sometimes be careful of hashtags like that online, they could be innocent phrases but are actually nefarious on the inside.