Gregory Deyss wrote to Jeff Thiele <=-

"All Lives Matter" is a pithy dismissal of the black
community's concerns. Tht's why I think they find it offensive.

I have a theory why the phrase All Lives Matter sparks so much outrage.
It is assumed that most people are civilized and also possess a certain amount of accountability and responsibility, those folks are filled
with so much rage and anger that they couldn't possibly operate within this construct. This annoys as it frustrates that they are expected to conform. Then when the aftermath is described as acting uncivilized or more like animals and even more rage is created.

Okay, regardless of your view on this, I saw somehing funny MONTHS ago...

It was a piece of vandalism. It was a spray painted "Black Lives Matter!"
on the side of a bridge. Somoene had, in a different color, put an "O" in front of lives - so it read black olives matter. Someone else was talking
about the vandalism and how terrible it was. Not that someone painted a
bridge, but that someone vandalized the piece of vandalism. LOL



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