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White people have never been exempt. One of my few criticisms of the BLM movement was that they should have been more inclusive.
So you're an 'All lives matter' kinda person?
Unironically, BLM should have grabbed ALM before the white supremacists did. It would have taken some of the wind out of their sails. There's some images of Black protesters holding signs of white kids who got killed by cops. Black people have a higher rate of police brutality then white people do, but Native Americans have an even higher rate. Not to mention that cops seem to go immediately to guns when dealing with epileptic shock and seizures victims. Also see Women and Queer people.
There's an element of racial injustice that needed to be highlighted by BLM so I don't know if including white victims of police brutality is the right approach but broadening to include other minorities would have helped continue their momentum and potentially catalyzed more meaningful change. Eventually challenging police brutality as a whole may have been an option but ignoring or underplaying racial inequality early on would have been essentially ignoring the reality of the situation.
Exactly. The "All lives matter" sounds nice to anyone unfamiliar with the movement but it is designed to downplay racial injustice.
What about "Our Lives Matter Too" (OTM2)? You're trying to fight oppression, appealing to empathy should have been the first resort. I know it feels good to prove being black or dark-skinned doesn't mean you need help, I've been there because I have autism and have encountered ableism from people who are supposed to be doctors or nurses, I'm just saying that once the few white people in the civil rights movement left, it lost steam because the opponent was more willing to get other people's assistance (in bad ways, but they still succeeded and that should have been countered).
For what it's worth, if a cop pointed a gun at a kid, I'd die to put myself between them before I let him pull the trigger, and if I would be too late, I'd f-ing kill the bastard. Fortunately, I've never met a cop willing to do that. I honestly hate it that your country has cops who are willing to do that in the open.
Once BLM moved toward economic injustice it would have been shut down like MLK was.
It’s a class war now more than ever, the rich people know they can get more nazi lackeys if they call it a race war though.
Also autistic folks, I've gotten lucky that my meltdowns generally make me less vulnerable but there have been folks who aren't to lucky. A good recent example was that kid up in Idaho.
Unironically the suffragettes should have campaigned for all people being allowed to vote.
Unironically, the LGBTQ community should have campaigned for all marriages to be legal.
BLM wasn't ALM because the movement was based on the horrendous rates of police violence and murder their communities have suffered. Yes, all lives do matter, but the point of the protest was how much black lives don't matter in the US.
There's also other minority groups. I'm not sure you read my whole post, because I specifically mentioned Native Americans having an even higher rate of police brutality.
Isn't that what they did? At least between consenting adults.
Also, there was an effort within the Women's suffrage movement to continue and get African Americans the right to vote. Martin Luther King Jr. also tried to continue to promote Communism. It's almost like if you're proven to be successful at leading real change, you get targeted. You're not allowed to change the world twice.
Technically, yes. And for a time, it was good.
Then Roe vs. Wade was overturned for no good reason and Trump stole the election last year. The (federal) laws towards gay/lesbian(/etc?) marriage hasn't changed afaik, but it would surprise me if that is how it is in practice under Teflon Don.
Not bashing anyone, does LGBTQ as an acronym even matter as a whole for marriages as much as for self-expression and mental health? Not in a "LGBTQ is lesser" way, but think about it logically. Asexuals (well, aromantic asexuals) aren't getting married, they don't want to. Getting married as transgender should absolutely be legal and legitimate, it's just that in a marriage, you're either male or female or (in rare cases) hermaphroditic in a biological, body-focused sense, so your marriage can be gay or lesbian or straight but whether you started out as the gender you currently are should be irrelevant to marriage status as long as the government acknowledges you are your current gender regardless of if you changed your gender.
If you want to normalize this stuff, the best way to do it is to at least recognize nuance and definitions. There are edge cases, those can and should be considered legal too, but as a single asexual person with opinions that contradict both partisan political extremes, if it looks like a fashion statement instead of a call for peace or a demand for true equality, you're probably doing it wrong.
Of course, now there are bigger issues. Probably better to force Trump off his throne and then never let up the pressure on improving from there.
BLM was/is also hostile to other marginalized groups like the LGBTQ; a BLM group literally blocked my city's Pride parade in the middle of it. Aren't we protesting the same thing? So hypocritical and tone deaf.
A group has. Not all the groups.
I'm not really equipped to talk at length on this topic, but luckily, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has