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Originally Posted by Mr K
I think we should just all be nice and respectful to each other regardless of skin colour. Radical I know.
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Agreed.. I personally try to judge someone by their actions, and not their colour, gender, or sexuality.
I do, however, understand the need for Black Lives Matter, and the protests.
There are still a large group of people who do judge people based on their race/colour, gender or sexuality. It's easy on a personal level to say "Well I treat all people fairly", and it's relatively easy to do. On the level of Society, it's not so easy because there are people who don't do that, some unintentionally (they may not be aware that something they do is prejudicial), and there are those who a prejudiced and either don't care, or are proud.
We need to seek those people out and hopefully persuade them to change. Not ignore them.
BLM is, for me, not about equal rights. It's about seeking those who don't believe in equal rights and doing something about them.
As such, by trying to persuade people that All lives matter (even though they do), people are trying to minimise the BLM protests.