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Your inability or unwillingness to care is up to you, but it doesn't make other people's behavior pointless.
I find it incredibly sad that the people who moan on and on about morals think that caring about, listening to, and respecting people who you might not share experiences with is a BAD thing. Your whining about SJWs and virtue signaling and empty gestures just tells me that you don't care about things that don't directly affect you and you actually look down on people who DO care. That's sad. But it's certainly your right.
Caring and listening and respecting and empathy...it all does make a difference. I will continue to watch and listen and learn and try to make myself a better person because there is a lot of room for improvement.
Your inability or unwillingness to care is up to you, but it doesn't make other people's behavior pointless.
I find it incredibly sad that the people who moan on and on about morals think that caring about, listening to, and respecting people who you might not share experiences with is a BAD thing. Your whining about SJWs and virtue signaling and empty gestures just tells me that you don't care about things that don't directly affect you and you actually look down on people who DO care. That's sad. But it's certainly your right.
Way to miss the point.
Caring, listening, respecting...have absolutely nothing to do with putting a black box on social media for one day. We have seen this repeatedly every time something horrific happens, and a week later people are back to posting pictures of their dinner or their vacation or their latest pair of shoes.
Lasting and impactful change does not come from such a trivial gesture.
Caring, listening, respecting...have absolutely nothing to do with putting a black box on social media for one day. We have seen this repeatedly every time something horrific happens, and a week later people are back to posting pictures of their dinner or their vacation or their latest pair of shoes.
Lasting and impactful change does not come from such a trivial gesture.
As a black man, thank you for this comment. We want lasting and impactful change, not "oh boy look at me, I posted a black box because I care and I want a pat on the back".
No, it seems quite obvious that YOU miss the point.
Fine. Please explain, demonstrate, and prove that I don't "care", and further explain, demonstrate and prove that "black out Tuesday" will do ANYTHING to help bring about fundamental change.
As a black man, thank you for this comment. We want lasting and impactful change, not "oh boy look at me, I posted a black box because I care and I want a pat on the back".
Well white liberals think they should be able to tell black folks what to do. :-)
As a black man, thank you for this comment. We want lasting and impactful change, not "oh boy look at me, I posted a black box because I care and I want a pat on the back".
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Thank you for understanding what I am trying to say.
When all this started some years ago, I thought that the police were not at fault. Things that have happened to our (white) family in recent years have made it clear how police over reach and are on a power trip. And if has affected us, I can't even imagine how it affects poor people or people of color.
It has been really emotional having discussions with my kids about race over the last few days...talking about how when I was in high school, my entire school was white, vs. my son now, where all of his best friends are non-white. I don't think current high school and college kids see race the same way their parents did, and that's a great thing. But I don't want them to trivialize the issue by relying on hash tags and black squares.
Its an empty gesture for young people to feel good about themselves.
As a black man who doesn’t complain every second about living in America, changing your profile picture does nothing for me. But thanks anyway for your liberal white guilt?
By the way, we all make demands of people we don't even know - asking strangers to stop smoking, for instance, or pestering people to buy Girl Scout cookies.
So you're comparing individuals to an entire race?
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