Re:A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company
by sneak on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:27AM
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> "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with.
The fact that you believe that is probably most of the problem.
Re:A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company
by beaner on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:34PM
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Oh come on. Have you ever tried to find one person who actually, literally believes that the lives of black people do not matter?
You'll certainly find 11-year olds in Call of Duty who will say it for shits and giggles to control you; you won't find anybody who actually believes it.
Re:A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company
by sneak on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:45PM
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I personally know dozens of people who don't care at all about black lives one way or the other. I've seen hundreds more that I don't know personally demonstrate that belief publicly, many of them police officers.
The disparities in policing, application of police violence, and prosecution are well-documented.
This is why the movement exists. It's a real problem, whether you personally have experienced it or not, whether you personally wish to acknowledge it or not.
There are many people out there who simply do not think that it matters whether or not black people live or die. Many of them are in uniform.
It's a moral "package deal." The idea being that if you reject BLM for its bad politics, you reject that black lives matter. And if you accept it, you also accept a bunch of other shit you're not actually for.
BLM should be recognized for the moral "package deal" that it is, and vehemently rejected. It's dishonest.
It's not Coinbase that is conflating anything, BLM itself is a conflation of ideas.