You really don't know how many people use this phrase without the intent of being hateful? People continue to see it as a logical response. (I know, I know, this implies they don't understand the point of what BLM is getting at — trying to say "we've never mattered at all and we need to be recognized" instead of "black lives are the only ones that matter.")
"Intend doesn't matter at all when it comes to hateful statements."
Except that this phrase, universally, isn't hateful inherently. It's been used to push a hateful and ignorant agenda, yes, but take the words at face value and you can easily identify someone's intent.
I'm not saying and have not said that the phrase was...a poor choice of words, nor that I agree with the ALM movement at large. To me it was just immediately recognizable what the OP was getting at, and I was frustrated and sad to see yet another thread immediately derailed and refocused on counterproductive nonsense.
ALM, at it's best (and wooboy it's barely a best) is people who are completely ignorant of any and all of the racial history of the united states, thinking that they are stating what should be a universal truth as if it isn't already implied.
In literally every other instance of it's use, it's used as a way of putting down BLM (because the way they see it, BLM means 'You should care about black people more than white people"). They understand the balance of power as White>Black. All of a sudden people want it to be White=Black, and that to them feels like black people are getting "too" much attention, so they have to go "ALM" to try and restore the power to what they "feel" was balanced.
At it's best, ALM is a misunderstanding of why BLM exists in the first place.
At it's worst, it's literal racism.
Considering the OP is a cop, there is zero way he doesn't understand what ALM is.
