I read a Reddit (through RDX mind you) post the other day that included the Who we serve page from the democrats’ website. The user noted that men were not on that list and pointed it out as on of the reasons Kamala Harris had lost. Meaning the Democratic Party should pander to the white young men demographic as well. A link to the post (through RDX)

I keep seeing this sentiment over and over again on social media. And I can’t help but make the analogy to the “All lives matter.” as opposed to “Black Lives matter.” Am I wrong to think this? I am not from the United States. Please don’t bite my head off as this is no stupid questions.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    The left has been openly hostile towards white people, and especially towards white males for years now. They’ve accused every single one of them of being racist just based on the color of the skin they were born with. They’ve said its impossible for them to experience racism themselves while being racist towards them in the most literal sense. Liberal state California tried and barely failed to pass a law to make racial discrimination legal. Liberal School UC Berkeley banned white people from the community gardens on certain days. Liberal companies like Google have purged white & Asian males from their applicants list. DeAnza college was illegally targeted white people of both genders. The list of offenses goes on, and on, and on. They’ve told white people and especially white males that their voices don’t matter and they need to shut up and get out of the way.

    The Democrats who support this type of perspective shouldn’t be terribly surprised then that the demographic they’ve been vilifying didn’t come out in droves to vote for them. Many didn’t vote for trump, they just didn’t vote at all. This comment will likely get downvoted all to hell, I’ll be called a racist without anyone even knowing my race, and a number of other things. This is a conversation that most people on the left refuse to have, even with other leftists, Democrats, or allies, unless the conversation is supportive of the ideas.

    But to answer your actual question, not really. All lives do matter, but the All Lives Matter statement was made mostly by people who didn’t understand the BLM movement, or didn’t understand that the name doesn’t imply that other lives don’t matter. The best explanation I’ve read is that if someone’s house is on fire and they call for help, you don’t respond by saying “well all houses matter”. You put out the damned fire.

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        15 days ago

        Bah, I lost my nerve and deleted it almost immediately after posting it. I also wasn’t sure if this was the right place to post it. Should I repost it?

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          I’m just saying that you did a good job of summarizing that:

          • young people in general feel disenfranchised, young white people as well, but the Dem party only focuses on culture war issues, so they are explicitly not fighting for you or even trying to represent you if you are poor and white
          • that does not mean All Lives Matter wasn’t just a cynical attempt to muddy the waters around the police regularly murdering black people