• Steve@communick.news
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    6 months ago

    No. We suck at naming things. And communication in general.
    “Black Lives Matter Too” would have been more clear.
    “Replace the Police” would have been better also.

    Even mainstream Democrats suck at it. They should be shouting every day, how they’re taking on big corp’s, going after antitrust abuses and unpaid taxes; While refusing to audit anyone making less than $250,000. But instead they just keep saying some variation of “The economy’s great, stupid.”

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      6 months ago

      They would have willfully misinterpreted both of those alternatives and convinced you they were poorly named anyways.

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        6 months ago

        They may have willfully misrepresented, but couldn’t really have an excuse to mistakenly misinterpret them. That was our bad.

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          6 months ago

          Is your argument that a genuine, good faith interpretation of “Black Lives Matter” is “Only Black Lives Matter”?

          This isn’t how English works. If I say “I like your mom” to an SO, they wouldn’t interpret it as I don’t like them and instead like their mom. I don’t have to say “I like your mom too”.

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            6 months ago

            Anyone coming back with “all lives matter” proves the ease of confusion over the slogan.

            My own immediate response to it was “Yah, of course they do. All lives matter. Why single out Black lives? The police shouldn’t be killing anyone.”

            I’m not going to try mind read anyone else.