2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Online And In Person, Bernie Sanders’ White Supporters Advance A Black Lives Matter Conspiracy [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)It always seems as though some only want to point out that certain posters (most of whom seem to have melanin) support BLM but not other protests. Hey, if you think this point is so important that it needs to be pointed out in EVERY GODDAMNED THREAD about Black Lives Matter, well that's on you. I think that's a pretty petty thing to do into every thread on this issue but that's me.
But the "Gotcha!" game could easily be played on both sides. Every single thread about #BLM contains a SLEW of posts from people hollering about how terrible these protests are but who clapped hard as hell when other things and issues have been protested ie Occupy, the TPP and other issues.
So not only do I think the interjection of this bullshit "gotcha!" game into every damn thread on black people getting slaughtered is a really meanspirited way to change the subject to something I guess certain people think are more "important", but the decision to focus on only side of the hypocrisy is every bit as hypocritical to me as the hypocrisy getting pointed out over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
At the end of the day, I think that we should just ignore it.