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Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by imgabe on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:49PM (#12868777)
> cops lives matter AND civilian lives matter

This isn't an issue that needs a middle ground. Black Lives Matter never said that cop lives don't. It didn't need to be said that cop lives matter because cops were already treated as though their lives mattered. When a cop gets killed nobody says "Well, he probably had it coming".

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Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by komali2 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:06PM (#12868896)
>Well he probably had it coming

I've witnessed people saying exactly that. You can't argue that anti-cop violence is any less real of a problem than anti-black violence. What about the shooting in Dallas?

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Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by brandon272 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:02PM (#12868861)
BLM should really have been called Black Lives Matter Too
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Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by mcv on Friday November 04, 2016 @07:45AM (#12871815)
That would certainly have cleared up this confusion where some people seem to read it as "Only Black Lives Matter". Nobody ever said that, but opponents seem to be arguing that that's what BLM means.
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