Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:08 pmYou are aware white people get shot as well, yes? Because it's wrong no matter who it is.
Whenever people say "All Lives Matter", my response is, "I agree. So let's deal with black people first so we can make a significant step to helping everyone."
When I look and say all lives matter. I do not mean that black lives do not. I worry that by focusing, one or both of two things will happen.
First is the token. Either as a response or as a blame. Examples: Florida school shooting, school response was students must now have clear backpacks. . . But the shooter wasn't a student and did not bring weapons in a student pack in the first place. It is a token 'we did something'. Second example, Is there is quite a bit of violence. It must be video games fault. Because it is new. And I have a study that references that opinion. And the opinion references the study. . .
The second concern is apathy. 'Whelp we found a fix for BLM. We can go back to Jeopardy.' People get tired of 'the movement' after a while. So if it is too narrowly focused it can peter out and larger problems can be ignored.
Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:08 pmYou are aware white people get shot as well, yes? Because it's wrong no matter who it is.
Whenever people say "All Lives Matter", my response is, "I agree. So let's deal with black people first so we can make a significant step to helping everyone."
When I look and say all lives matter. I do not mean that black lives do not. I worry that by focusing, one or both of two things will happen.
First is the token. Either as a response or as a blame. Examples: Florida school shooting, school response was students must now have clear backpacks. . . But the shooter wasn't a student and did not bring weapons in a student pack in the first place. It is a token 'we did something'. Second example, Is there is quite a bit of violence. It must be video games fault. Because it is new. And I have a study that references that opinion. And the opinion references the study. . .
The second concern is apathy. 'Whelp we found a fix for BLM. We can go back to Jeopardy.' People get tired of 'the movement' after a while. So if it is too narrowly focused it can peter out and larger problems can be ignored.
That is just my two cents on lives matter.
Wait you are worry that people will get tired of a movement so you want to make it spread out as possible so people will get tire of it quicker?
Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:08 pmYou are aware white people get shot as well, yes? Because it's wrong no matter who it is.
Whenever people say "All Lives Matter", my response is, "I agree. So let's deal with black people first so we can make a significant step to helping everyone."
When I look and say all lives matter. I do not mean that black lives do not. I worry that by focusing, one or both of two things will happen.
First is the token. Either as a response or as a blame. Examples: Florida school shooting, school response was students must now have clear backpacks. . . But the shooter wasn't a student and did not bring weapons in a student pack in the first place. It is a token 'we did something'. Second example, Is there is quite a bit of violence. It must be video games fault. Because it is new. And I have a study that references that opinion. And the opinion references the study. . .
The second concern is apathy. 'Whelp we found a fix for BLM. We can go back to Jeopardy.' People get tired of 'the movement' after a while. So if it is too narrowly focused it can peter out and larger problems can be ignored.
That is just my two cents on lives matter.
I actually think that it might be these type of bandaid circumstances that lead to more coarse waves from the tide come the next national outbreak.
Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:08 pmYou are aware white people get shot as well, yes? Because it's wrong no matter who it is.
Whenever people say "All Lives Matter", my response is, "I agree. So let's deal with black people first so we can make a significant step to helping everyone."
When I look and say all lives matter. I do not mean that black lives do not. I worry that by focusing, one or both of two things will happen.
First is the token. Either as a response or as a blame. Examples: Florida school shooting, school response was students must now have clear backpacks. . . But the shooter wasn't a student and did not bring weapons in a student pack in the first place. It is a token 'we did something'. Second example, Is there is quite a bit of violence. It must be video games fault. Because it is new. And I have a study that references that opinion. And the opinion references the study. . .
The second concern is apathy. 'Whelp we found a fix for BLM. We can go back to Jeopardy.' People get tired of 'the movement' after a while. So if it is too narrowly focused it can peter out and larger problems can be ignored.
That is just my two cents on lives matter.
Wait you are worry that people will get tired of a movement so you want to make it spread out as possible so people will get tire of it quicker?
No so they find a broader solution. A quick purge of police forces to clear the worst offenders is trimming the top of an iceberg. But an actual unfettered group to keep them on the moral side might be a jet of tropical water to melt it down.
Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:08 pmYou are aware white people get shot as well, yes? Because it's wrong no matter who it is.
Whenever people say "All Lives Matter", my response is, "I agree. So let's deal with black people first so we can make a significant step to helping everyone."
When I look and say all lives matter. I do not mean that black lives do not. I worry that by focusing, one or both of two things will happen.
First is the token. Either as a response or as a blame. Examples: Florida school shooting, school response was students must now have clear backpacks. . . But the shooter wasn't a student and did not bring weapons in a student pack in the first place. It is a token 'we did something'. Second example, Is there is quite a bit of violence. It must be video games fault. Because it is new. And I have a study that references that opinion. And the opinion references the study. . .
The second concern is apathy. 'Whelp we found a fix for BLM. We can go back to Jeopardy.' People get tired of 'the movement' after a while. So if it is too narrowly focused it can peter out and larger problems can be ignored.
That is just my two cents on lives matter.
Wait you are worry that people will get tired of a movement so you want to make it spread out as possible so people will get tire of it quicker?
No so they find a broader solution. A quick purge of police forces to clear the worst offenders is trimming the top of an iceberg. But an actual unfettered group to keep them on the moral side might be a jet of tropical water to melt it down.
You have to eat an elephant one bite at a time. Starting too large will get help for no one.