06-02-2020, 08:48 PMnour Wrote:

06-02-2020, 08:45 PMHanTheMan_ Wrote: to anyone in this thread saying "all lives matter" or "not ALL cops are bad" or "the riots and looting are bad" LISTEN.

the saying "all lives matter" vs "black lives matter" ruins the whole point of their cause. no one ever said other lives didn't matter. no one said queer lives don't matter, Hispanic lives don't matter, Asian lives don't matter, etc. the BLM movement is to put black lives at the forefront because they have been pushed aside for far too long. no one would volunteer to be treated the way police treat black people. you would not want to be profiled, have weapons drawn on you for a simple traffic stop, and you surely would not want to be fatally shot at 12 years old for playing games in your front yard.

the saying of "not ALL cops are bad" is damaging. The police system is a corrupt system that is being upheld by the deaths of black indigenous people of colour (bipoc) and queer people of colour. There's no such thing as a "good cop" within a system that is built to oppress. There was been several instances now where police have been shown, breaking windows and the ones responsible for setting the target ablaze in Minneapolis, undercover police taking peaceful protesters resources followed by them being guarded by police, pepper-spraying children, arresting a man for peacefully explaining his story, running into protestors with police vehicles, police teargassing peaceful protestors in washington, the list goes on and on. The media showing you these "good cops" kneeling with protestors are the same ones causing this violence. it's feel-good media because that's what the world "needs" right now. its the kind of media that we can look at and go "look they're standing down they're with us! see!" they're not. if they were, they wouldn't be working within this system. 

for those saying the riots and looting are bad a damaging. that is literally the point. the intention at first for riots and looting is the same intentions that lead Stonewall, which was the first retaliation LBGTQ+ people have had against police. this impacted queer history. it is the reason any queer person today has rights in the USA. Women's suffrage in the USA was also a protest and a near riot. The reason you have a 40-hour workweek instead of 48 is a result of protesting. looting is the concept of deconstructing our value of commercial and consumer products and using that as a symbol of retaliation against a capitalist and corrupt system. read this for other reasons some people may consider looting as rebellion. These items are all REPLACEABLE. The black lives lost to police brutality are not. The unfortunate truth is that people are taking advantage of the looting and painting everyone with the same shitty picture.

if you're focused on the rioting and looting instead of George Floyd ya missed the point. If you're focusing on the good cops, you're missing the point. The SHL has a lot of reach so use it for good guys. Educate yourselves.  Here's a link. No excuse now. 

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