Worst of Social Justice

[Even Then]

I'm glad they apparently left on good terms. My reactions remains "the fuck".

Oh, was talking to Dakota Bob.

[ironbite]

Well, according to Rasmussen Reports, 64% of African-Americans say "All Lives Matter" best describes their views, as opposed to the 31% who say the same thing about "Black Lives Matter".

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2015/black_lives_matter_or_all_lives_matter

Oh Rasmus?  Yeah don't trust them.

Ironbite-like at all.

[SCarpelan]

Well, according to Rasmussen Reports, 64% of African-Americans say "All Lives Matter" best describes their views, as opposed to the 31% who say the same thing about "Black Lives Matter".

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2015/black_lives_matter_or_all_lives_matter

As always, the context where these statements are made matters a lot. When asking people which of the statements better describes their feelings people weigh the statements separate from each other. In such case "all lives matter" really is how most people feel but it ignores how the statement is used in relation to the "black lives matter" movement and their usage.

When you take this into account the "all lives matter" becomes a statement that diminishes the message "black lives matter" tries to convey - that the society in the US does not value black lives as much as the lives of some other ethnicities. How people answer in a poll like that depends if they percieve this connection between the statements or not. That's why the poll does not actually provide reliable evidence about what black people think about "all lives matter" as a response to "black lives matter". Since that is the only reason the statement is criticized at all the poll does not really provide any useful information.

[guizonde]

basically, any student syndicalist in my old university. also, when you're an anarchist and don't recognize the government's authority, being called a fascist is really funny.

[Art Vandelay]

Student activists in general are kind of insufferable. It seems that the less they know what they're talking about, the louder they are.

[Ultimate Paragon]

[SCarpelan]

http://oi58.tinypic.com/x1m26c.jpg

My last name is rather long and unusual - there are less than 30 people with the same name (unless there is some obscure branch of the family hiding somewhere abroad). I laughed aloud at this.

[Eiki-mun]

My last name is easy to spell for any American and I still have to spell it all the time, or people get it wrong (most commonly adding an s at the end for some reason, weird since my last name is Fitting).

[VainRobot]

I share a name with a major corporation and people still have trouble spelling it sometimes.

[Even Then]

I'm white and my last name includes letters that don't even exist in the American alphabet.

[Eiki-mun]

I'm white and my last name includes letters that don't even exist in the American alphabet.

Is it an ä or an ö?

[Even Then]

The former.

[Svata]

My last name is McCreery. People are constantly mispronouncing or asking me how to spell it.

[I am lizard]

Student activists in general are kind of insufferable. It seems that the less they know what they're talking about, the louder they are.

Maybe we'll have a new left 2.0 soon.

[Sigmaleph]

One of my surnames is in the top five or so for the country and people still manage to misspell it.