Well, your original point was that Black Lives Matter is justified in insisting upon Black Lives and that countering with All Lives Matter was a bad thing to do. I would guess that BLM would strongly object to e.g. Poor Lives Matter as well.
Maybe they would, but I don’t think I would be quite so quick to dismissive Poor Lives Matter, as they would have legit beef, so to speak.
Actually if a real movement sprung up with the intention of uniting poor blacks and poor whites in a shared resistance to police brutality and systemic injustice generally, that could be a really good thing. And maybe BLM would be pissed, and maybe they would have some reason on certain grounds, but I don’t think I’d dismiss PLM without a hearing.
ALM, on the other hand, is vacuous crap. It’s basically true but that’s where the merit ends. It means nothing, it adds nothing, it represents nothing. Imagine in it in other contexts. Someone’s talking about a cystic fibrosis charity and I respond “all diseases matter!”. Someone’s raising money for Dog’s Trust and I chime in with “all vertebrates matter!”. (This could actually be a fun parody Twitter account if I were trollishly inclined).
The thing is, there are systematic selection biases. People with certain character traits (note: not clinical mental health issues) self-select into specific jobs.
Yes, absolutely, good point. But for jobs like policing, paramedics etc. there’s a high occupational risk of picking up mental health issues on the job too.
Maybe they would, but I don’t think I would be quite so quick to dismissive Poor Lives Matter, as they would have legit beef, so to speak.
Actually if a real movement sprung up with the intention of uniting poor blacks and poor whites in a shared resistance to police brutality and systemic injustice generally, that could be a really good thing. And maybe BLM would be pissed, and maybe they would have some reason on certain grounds, but I don’t think I’d dismiss PLM without a hearing.
ALM, on the other hand, is vacuous crap. It’s basically true but that’s where the merit ends. It means nothing, it adds nothing, it represents nothing. Imagine in it in other contexts. Someone’s talking about a cystic fibrosis charity and I respond “all diseases matter!”. Someone’s raising money for Dog’s Trust and I chime in with “all vertebrates matter!”. (This could actually be a fun parody Twitter account if I were trollishly inclined).
Yes, absolutely, good point. But for jobs like policing, paramedics etc. there’s a high occupational risk of picking up mental health issues on the job too.