• Zozano@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Just to clarify, I’m not asking about the implication of “white pride”, just the semantics of pride in general.

    It reminds me of “Black Lives Matter” - of course they do, but too many people heard “only black lives matter”, when what they’re trying to say is “black lives matter too”.

    These twits responded with “All Lives Matter”, which, of course, is also true, but the implication is the discreditation of the suffering of black people.

    I think a lot of these issues, unfortunately, are a failure of the Left. There are so many slogans which are either poorly thought out, or intentionally inflammatory. For example, “defund the police”, “all cops are bastards”, “math is racist”.

    We can’t expect the Right to read between the lines, it’s up to the Left to use better language so we don’t give them more ammo.