Thread by @SuneAuken

The last year has led me to a somewhat sad conclusion about racism. I’m noting it down here. Sorry, if this is completely obvious to you, but being in a position of privilege I sometimes have to think out loud to even get the basics. So here goes. 1/

Black Lives Matter … How can that possibly provoke anyone? Well, it has. We have had at least three different ”replies”: ”All Lives Matter”, ”Blue Lives Matter”, and even, on the deep deep right, ”White Lives Matter”. Each, of course, disingenuously missing the point. 2/

But there’s another thing that has appeared very clearly over the last year. Those making the replies mostly don’t believe in them when it is put to the test. 3/

”Blue Lives Matter” as a slogan died on January 6th when its supposed supporters literally and lethally, attacked the police. It was never about the police. 4/

However, the last year has also given lie to the two other slogans. Their proponents have eagerly supported politicians and politics that lied about and grifted on a global pandemic with lethal consequences for everybody – for all lives, including the celebrated white lives. 5/

”No”, seems to be the message, ”they don’t really matter if we have to abandon our pet ideologies to protect them.” 6/

So what matters then? If no lives truly matter, then why the ire against Black Lives Matter? 7/

I’m left with only one explanation. Apparently, it matters greatly to this group of people that black lives don’t matter. 8/

It seems to be a racism so ingrained that they are literally willing to die for it. It’s as if something is taken away from them if black lives matter that is more important to them than life itself. Supremacy, apparently, is more important. 9/

This is my conclusion for now, and it’s a fair bit less hopeful than I could have hoped for. Could someone provide me with a bit of hope please? 10/