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does All Lives Matter cancel out Black Lives Matter? and if yes, why?

All Lives Matter DILUTES the message of Black Lives Matter.

When there’s a problem, we focus on the problem. We say ‘this is what hurts, let’s fix it’.

You’re a teacher. You have 30 students.

During lunch break, 2 of those students, Noah and Jessica come over to you. Noah points to Jessica’s scraped knee and says ‘Ashton pushed Jessica off of the swing and she fell and got hurt!’

Do you

A) Get a bandaid and fix Jessica’s knee and call over Ashton to tell him not to push kids off of swings

or

B) Lecture Noah about how ‘all students matter’ and how he shouldn’t single out Jessica and should instead help ALL of the students equally

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yeah just leave it on the table for me I’ll get some in a minute

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A simple yet wondrous robot design!

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Once someone told me that I’m as “deep as an ocean,” and it wasn’t until recently that I realized, I didn’t really believe it. Sure I have the occasional passing philosophical thought chain, but I’m too wacky and ridiculous to be like an ocean.

Then I remembered this fucker:

And suddenly being as deep and full as an ocean didn’t seem so far fetched. Because sure the ocean is full of majestic creatures:

But then there’s shit like this:

So never believe that your depth is only limited to the things you feel are majestic, but realize that it extends to your flopping sea pancake side as well.

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my professor spent our entire seminar whining about how there’s too many girls in our group and not enough boys. he was like “i’m not saying women can’t be good surgeons but we need more men” no, we don’t. men suck. deal with it.

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