Once upon a time, there was a conservative movement that said every life was important and every person deserved due process. Has anyone heard from them lately?
I never could figure out why white people chose to read this as - only black lives matter - instead of - black lives matter too!- I've tried to explain this but it goes nowhere.
"All Lives Matter" was just a dismissive response to Black Lives Matter. People who say that don't believe all lives matter. And they show it by their actions.
News flash: people like the people they like and not people they are institutionally coerced to like.
That’s it.
All these articles that take this “So why is it that…” tack….well….that’s your answer. The end.
One other thing: here is a sign of how much fear of social stigma there exists even now around the subject of BLM. Why has no writer…some philosophical soul at the New Yorker or the Atlantic…taken it upon himself to interrogate the meaning of the phrase “to matter”? What does it mean to matter, and matter to whom?
Keep looking and let us know if you find them. Im pretty sure they're somewhere hiding behind their KKK brethren but, maybe I'm wrong and they'll surprise me. I won't hold my breath though...
Your question is mine as well, and more this hour than an hour ago.
If we didn't already know how the GOP feels about "useless people", we found out during Covid, when members of the GOP were calling for the elderly to be the workers, despite the far greater risk, and obvious humanitarian issues.
So it surprises me little to see that the GOP is now going after the disabled, despite the fact that the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) is pretty much the ONLY legislation to help middle-income, working-class Americans in the past 75 YEARS that the GOP actually supported. (Only one I can find...)
But we disabled are pretty useless to many, despite the reality of the substantial contributions so many of us made before we no longer could. ("What have you done for me LATELY.")
I confess that seeing your question is the reason I'm posting here, and it all still feels a bit too personal for my more commonly used account. I just came back from my pharmacy. It seems that I can't even get the pain meds due today, because they require that some specific person notify me that I'm screwed. The only question is how much.
People will die. Ever since the DEA decided that the Sackler family had FINALLY made enough money (after 20 YEARS of mostly the poor dying from oxycontin), people in desperate need of pain relief, but cut off from their meds by the DEA, started dying of suicide.,Often dozens of instances a day. Simply because it benefited...someone. (I suspect the current issue is some sick part of Trump's "fentanyl scam".)
If anyone is interested, I documented this when it was merely a temporary situation a couple of years ago. I expected to die then, and this is likely permanent, so I'm a little panicky.
You see, I'm sole caretaker for my 100% bedridden and 100% incontinent 93-year-old mother, and I only know this eliminates some of the very few options we already had.
Thank you. This has the potential of being one of the worst days of my too-long life, and I really needed to type, even if it's never read. I can't begin to describe my fear or hopelessness:
"I Beg You To Consider Reading What I Desperately Hope Won’t Be My Last MEDIUM Article"
Americans are Dying in Uncountable Numbers Because their Cause of Death Is Being Listed As “Suicide”, Not “DEA Dictated Pain Medication Deprivation” "
I never could figure out why white people chose to read this as - only black lives matter - instead of - black lives matter too!- I've tried to explain this but it goes nowhere.
It was willful misunderstanding.
They knew damn well what it really meant. They just didn't want to own up to it.
Guilt.
But as soon as I see two people standing side-by-side; one a white, male, hetero christian, and the other a Black, Muslim lesbian...
And MY family and neighbors here in the rural Deep South can honestly say they see NO difference...
" “All Lives Matter”: America’s Cruelest Lie"
https://medium.com/@foofaraw/all-lives-matter-americas-cruelest-lie-770ab82e28d5
Now that so-called Americans Christians are LITERALLY saying that what makes Trump "a great leader" is that he is incapable of empathy.
This my "Most distressing article of the day" for today...
https://www.alternet.org/incapable-of-empathy-how-misogyny-drives-the-maga-anger/
Jesus wouldn't last an hour...
I just woke up from a nap, read this and I’m angry all over again
"All Lives Matter" was just a dismissive response to Black Lives Matter. People who say that don't believe all lives matter. And they show it by their actions.
News flash: people like the people they like and not people they are institutionally coerced to like.
That’s it.
All these articles that take this “So why is it that…” tack….well….that’s your answer. The end.
One other thing: here is a sign of how much fear of social stigma there exists even now around the subject of BLM. Why has no writer…some philosophical soul at the New Yorker or the Atlantic…taken it upon himself to interrogate the meaning of the phrase “to matter”? What does it mean to matter, and matter to whom?
Chester the Pussy Molester. True and has a musical ring.
Goniffs Oppressing People are all about acquiring ‘their own collection’ of The Seven Deadly Sins…. Plain and without psy-ops techniques.
You're right, of course.
Keep looking and let us know if you find them. Im pretty sure they're somewhere hiding behind their KKK brethren but, maybe I'm wrong and they'll surprise me. I won't hold my breath though...
You channel the spirit of Diogenes, but I think you're going to need a much bigger lamp...
We have to consider that they have Icarus.
But tragically, he didn't fall when he got too close to the sun. (Perhaps because of the eclipse.)
Tragically, nowhere near as noble of spirit as poor Icarus.
I'm pretty certain Daedalus was never arrested at a KKK rally...
The Gods forbid!
Your question is mine as well, and more this hour than an hour ago.
If we didn't already know how the GOP feels about "useless people", we found out during Covid, when members of the GOP were calling for the elderly to be the workers, despite the far greater risk, and obvious humanitarian issues.
So it surprises me little to see that the GOP is now going after the disabled, despite the fact that the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) is pretty much the ONLY legislation to help middle-income, working-class Americans in the past 75 YEARS that the GOP actually supported. (Only one I can find...)
But we disabled are pretty useless to many, despite the reality of the substantial contributions so many of us made before we no longer could. ("What have you done for me LATELY.")
I confess that seeing your question is the reason I'm posting here, and it all still feels a bit too personal for my more commonly used account. I just came back from my pharmacy. It seems that I can't even get the pain meds due today, because they require that some specific person notify me that I'm screwed. The only question is how much.
People will die. Ever since the DEA decided that the Sackler family had FINALLY made enough money (after 20 YEARS of mostly the poor dying from oxycontin), people in desperate need of pain relief, but cut off from their meds by the DEA, started dying of suicide.,Often dozens of instances a day. Simply because it benefited...someone. (I suspect the current issue is some sick part of Trump's "fentanyl scam".)
If anyone is interested, I documented this when it was merely a temporary situation a couple of years ago. I expected to die then, and this is likely permanent, so I'm a little panicky.
You see, I'm sole caretaker for my 100% bedridden and 100% incontinent 93-year-old mother, and I only know this eliminates some of the very few options we already had.
Thank you. This has the potential of being one of the worst days of my too-long life, and I really needed to type, even if it's never read. I can't begin to describe my fear or hopelessness:
"I Beg You To Consider Reading What I Desperately Hope Won’t Be My Last MEDIUM Article"
Americans are Dying in Uncountable Numbers Because their Cause of Death Is Being Listed As “Suicide”, Not “DEA Dictated Pain Medication Deprivation” "
https://medium.com/@foofaraw/i-beg-you-to-consider-reading-what-i-desperately-hope-wont-be-my-last-medium-article-bf5cb5052a2c