Black Lives Matters and MLS

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If MLS is genuine in their attempt to promote social Justice and equality I support the movement.

If they are doing this to pander and avoid the “silence is violence “ crowd angry tweeting at them I don’t support it.

 

MLS is a business and nothing more. Anything they chose to do was done in the interest of good business. The hard part to understand is that this is actually fine.

 

If I was convinced that MLS would be as open to the idea that all lives matter [and this includes all those black lives that Black Lives Matter removes from consideration because their politics are not of the Left] as they are for this movement, then I'd say "whatever".
I'm not remotely convinced.

 

This has been explained so many times that at this point you're either trolling or intentionally ignoring everything being said.

 

Plenty of businesses use cause related marketing to support causes they actually believe in.

 

I don't like that. Businesses should't have beliefs. They should make money.

 

The problem with your answer is that you apparently think that we are dependent on folks such as you to provide "information" on what is, or is not, in this world. As if Black Lives Matter, and the political cause that its founders embrace, and its clear delineation between those black lives that matter, and those that do not, is not a matter of record, in written thought and in practical action, for a number of years now. As if we cannot see for ourselves, and require you to interpret what is truth.

What is trolling is the Left's political activists openly using a sport's platform for the advancement of their agenda, and then shutting down response -other than "of course, Komrad"- as "trolling".

Do a little thought experiment: Imagine the use of these boards, or MLS's use of its games and equipment, to advocate, say, for the full Bill of Rights? And then whenever you'd rise to question if political partisanship is what soccer forums are about, you'd be simply dismissed as a troll.

Not that self-awareness is your strength.

 

All Lives Matter has been adopted by the alt-right with the purpose of undermining the Black Lives Matter movement.

As things stand you'll only hear it from the far-right.

 

Learn to read the room. If your opinion isn't welcome don't share it unless you are doing it for self-entertainment (trolling).

I respect good trolling. You are not it.

 

People equating getting cancelled for their opinions on Twitter to Nazism / Soviet Russia, when there is a literal secret police disappearing protesters has been my favorite part of 2020. Talk about the haves and have-nots, eh?

 

Oh look, a thinly veiled reference to the Marxism claim that BLM's actual mission statement doesn't back up, much less the vast majority of people supporting them. SMH

 

If your house is on fire and they hose down the neighbors house while letting yours burn, would you be ok with that? After all, all houses matter.

of course, everyones lives matter. It is just that at this particular point in time, our black friends need help.

if you can’t see that, then i cant help ya fella.

 

Dang...this thread has already lasted longer than I thought it would. The Over/Under was likely 2 Hours, lol

 

It's amazing to me that there are so many people who feel threatened by a movement fighting for human rights. It's almost as if they can't stand the thought of saying that Black lives actually matter.

 

That's untrue. A large majority of the public agrees with the proposition that "All Lives Matter".

Here are results from a pollster on which proposition is closer to their own views. Even a plurality of black respondents prefer "All Lives Matter"

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/pu...30_say_black_lives_matter_more_than_all_lives

 

That survey is asking whether black lives matter MORE than other lives, which is not at all what the statement "black lives matter" is saying. Then again, it is Rasmussen so I'm not surprised they would frame it that way.

 

Nope, the question asked was which of the 2 statements better reflected their own views.

 

I keep seeing people say this, but I'm not sure they actually understand what being "disappeared" means. People are being arrested by federal agents. Arrests go into the public record along with the crimes that person is charged with. There is a paper trail and anybody can see who, what, where, and why.

People being actually "disappeared" ala Stalin, Pinochet, or whatever the despot of choice is, means no such paper trail exists.

 

Americans love imagining themselves as oppressed because they've never actually been oppressed.

 

White male Americans you mean. Or are we suggesting past Americans (like, for example, freed slaves) were never oppressed?