Originally posted by seanD
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Originally posted by Darth Executor
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So when someone says "All Lives Matter," the statement is perceived as brushing over the specific pain that black people report feeling in a situation. It's as if a teacher calls on everyone in a classroom except for one student, and that student finally stands up one day and says "Hey, my voice should be heard too," only for the teacher to respond "Everyone's voice should be heard"--everyone else's voice is already heard; there's no need to point out something that in principle is obviously true but in practice is false. Our hypothetical student might understandably feel ignored, since the very reason she insisted that her voice should be heard is that the teacher wasn't allowing her voice to be heard. And wouldn't that feel like a double slap--in the student's effort to make her voice heard, the teacher basically didn't bother hearing her voice? The same applies to members of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Now, I don't believe that Hilary Clinton meant anything hurtful by her remarks, so I believe that those people in the link were overreacting. But being offended because you misinterpreted something isn't remotely the same as TRYING to find something by which to feel offended.
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