https://deadspin.com/penguins-include-blue-lives-matter-flag-in-ceremony-hon-1830114354
Leave it to the cops to make it all about themselves.
Leave it to the cops to make it all about themselves.
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Pittsburgh Penguins Include Blue Lives Matter Flag In Ceremony Honoring Tree Of Life Victims
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This is still the league where those in control deny the existence of CTE, so not at all shocked or surprised.
They could have use any number of symbols or statements. But they choose the racist one
Coulda just used, y'know, the American flag.
BlueLivesMatter is a deliberate statement that has nothing to do with cops getting gunned down by white supremacists.
Imagine if you lived in a world with a neighbendless combination of words and symbols to express thoughts. Imagine that you could choose words or a symbol that recognized police officers killed in the line of duty in a way that wasn't a knee-jerk, anti-black slogan.
Imagine.
Imagine.
Fallen officers were being honored long before the BlueLivesMatter folks came around. This is deliberate.
gross, but not surprising
a trump supporter unbothered by racist imagery, how strange
a trump supporter unbothered by racist imagery, how strange
While I'm not sure of the symbolic meaning of the line, it really annoys me because the stripes aren't blue. The field where the stars are located is blue. Just.
Could've used the department's crest, the state flag or any other dozens of non-racist symbols.... That's the first thing they grab
Penguins are so 1967, gotta rename the team to the Pittsburgh Punishers
Yeah....I see their reasoning. It's just a bad look to hold up one group by using a symbol that oppresses and makes light of another.
Hey come on now, I feel like you're giving nazis an undeserved rap here, there's plenty of other people they hate just as much.
I actually closed my eyes and sighed.
Time for me to play Overwatch.
Blue Lives Matter flags are a direct response to people willfully misunderstanding Black Lives Matter so fuck this.
The Pittsburgh flag is really good (imo), and is also basically the Pittsburgh Police's logo, but nah, let's go with the racist edgelord bullshit
Though the thin blue line predates the blue lives matter term it's been coopted enough for the wrong reasons (anti black lives matter) that it's not a good look.
Strike that. Looks like the flag version has become the definitive symbol of the movement...
Strike that. Looks like the flag version has become the definitive symbol of the movement...
I've never seen this flag pre BlueLM/anti BlackLM, I'm pretty sure it was made after the term was coopted. The message here is clear
Angry protesters complaining about cops murdering black people isn't the same thing as centuries of institutionalized racism and law enforcement murdering black people?
Thin blue line predates black lives matter by a good while, but even then, the blue line possessed a negative connotation in regards to police turning the other way in investigating and prosecuting those among their ranks who have committed wrong doing, racist or otherwise.
It's a bad look without the recent day baggage.
What the fuck, Penguins? You were doing so good with honoring the victims of the shooting, but then you pull this, taking away a lot of the good will you would've gotten.
Unless I'm mistaken the blue line flag/symbol has existed as a sign for law enforcement prior to Blue Lives Matter. Having said that it largely seems to be representative of that movement at this point, and frankly I'm not sure any symbol for police is warranted in a tribute to lives lost in that shooting.
As i mentioned above, it always existed, but it always existed in regards to containing everything within that line, in a "keeping things in house" sort of way. No snitching, turning a blind eye if someone's being overly aggressive.
You know, gang mentality shit. The blue line was never not a negative.
Oh yeah I agree with this take on it. I just speaking specifically to the Blue Lives Matter bit. It doesn't really matter much I suppose, either way it's bad.