Police Officers Lives Also Matter.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3694441/Masked-gunman-shoots-multiple-cops-Baton-Rouge-two-weeks-video-officers-killing-Alton-Sterling-dead-provoked-outrage.html

[mikey4444]

AOG....I am sure that we have discussed this recently here on AB, but I can't find it this morning !

[ToraToraTora]

this is just going to escalate until some sense descends on both sides.

[ummmm]

Everyone lives matters.

[mikey4444]

Can anybody find the thread that we discussed this and other American shooting on .....it seems to have disappeared !

[Old_Geezer]

Anyone can see,
Anyway the wind blows.
A thread will be deleted.

[CrapAtCryptics]

As the specialist said on TV this morning why do ordinary members of the public think they ned assault rifles.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

This one only happened yesterday morning, there was another similar a few days ago.

[mikey4444]

Thanks OG...that explains it then.

So, to answer AOG....yes, all lives matter !

[mikey4444]

AOG...The previous thread was deleted apparently.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// So, to answer AOG....yes, all lives
matter ! ///

I never said they didn't, but it seems that some only think black lives matter.

[albaqwerty]

Police are armed to protect the public, the criminals are armed to defend themselves from the police once they have committed a crime using their guns, the public are arming themselves with heavier weapons to defend themselves from the criminals who are getting heavier weapons.

And so, the carousel goes on and on and on......

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// AOG...The previous thread was deleted apparently. ///

Then it seems one has to be on AB 27/7 not to miss anything.

Let's see how far this one will be allowed to go.

[anotheoldgit]

24/7

[mikey4444]

Can't see any reason why the other one was removed. It got a bit heated but hardly unusual on AB !

[albaqwerty]

I think you got it right first time AOG, :-)

Remember it's forbidden to chat about removed threads but if you don't know if a thread has been removed, then that's just not fair imo

[jim360]

Some people have undoubtedly co-opted and perverted the "Black lives matter" movement for their own ends, but the slogan is absolutely not exclusive in the way people who reply "all lives matter" back. Of course they do. The recent death of yet more policemen is shocking, tragic and wholly unwarranted as a reaction. But just to be clear, if someone says "Black Lives Matter", they [should] mean it in the same way as a slogan to "save our rainforests". Saying that wouldn't mean "I don't care about any other type of forest"; merely that, at the moment, the rainforest is particularly under threat currently and so merits extra attention. Black people in the US are, or appear to be, particularly in danger of police discrimination ending in death (by about 2 times proportionally, compared to White people). Hence, a "Black Lives Matter" slogan is wholly reasonable. It doesn't mean not caring about any other type of life. There's no reason to respond "All Lives Matter" as if we didn't know this already. It misses the point.

[Hypognosis]

@jim

On Twitter it has already reached the stage where the pedantic, language-obsessives' trotting out of the truism "all lives matter" is viewed as an insulting attempt to negate the original problem and/or sweep it under the carpet.

It is as if some people see BLM and read an invisible "only…" into it. They kept it short to save letters, for Twitter but the missing operative word is "…too", or "…also". They began by imploring white America to treat them equally.

Which it was conspicuously failing to do. As in "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it my tazer".

[Hypognosis]

^^^ Not my own work, other than it being a summary of this: -

http://fusion.net/story/170591/the-next-time-someone-says-all-lives-matter-show-them-these-5-paragraphs/

[gness]

AOG.......don't worry....yours is a valid post worthy of discussion........the subject matter was not the reason for the removal of the previous thread..........x

[ummmm]

Did you see the placard held up by a black man saying something along the lines of 'we didn't say only black lives matter, it was the media'