Facebook’s tolerance deficiency: Mark Zuckerberg has to tell employees to stop crossing out “Black L

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Facebook’s tolerance deficiency: Mark Zuckerberg has to tell employees to stop crossing out “Black Lives Matter” on its signature wall

by Brendan Gauthier at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/25/facebooks_tolerance_deficiency_mark_zuckerberg_has_to_tell_employees_to_stop_crossing_out_black_lives_matter_on_its_signature_wall/

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According to Gizmodo, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made clear in an internal memo his disappointment with “several recent instances of people crossing out ‘black lives matter’ and writing ‘all lives matter'” on a signature wall at the company’s swankily minimalist Menlo Park campus.

“There are specific issues affecting the black community in the United States, coming from a history of oppression and racism,” Zuckerberg wrote. “‘Black lives matter’ doesn’t mean other lives don’t — it’s simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve.”

Read the whole memo below, via Gizmodo:



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1. Yup. All Lives Matter is a right wing wedge issue created to replace failing wedge issues

like gay marriage and such.

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2. Yes some people who opposed gay marriage went with "all lives matter"...

For example: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/24/hillary-clintons-all-lives-matter-remark-stirs-backlash/

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4. That was before. People didn't know it was a wedge. They were using the term literally. Who could

argue with the notion that all lives are important. It was only later that it was clear it was meant as a wedge and a way to gaslight black lives matter supporters. "All Lives Matter" redefines black lives matter, by people with wedge intentions, as exclusionary. Of course many fell for it and still fall for it. That is why Zuckerberg had to clarify company policy. Of course it is a wedge and meant to cause trials and tribulations for Democratic candidates. That is what a wedge is. Hillary and Bernie, when asked to repeat the words "all lives matter" should simply say 'it is a wedge, I refuse to condone wedge language'. The GOP lost the confederate flag as a symbol, they have replaced it with a wedge "All Lives Matter" which is not nearly as clear in its hate.

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3. Zombiebook must have some Glenn Beck failures working there.

'All lives matter' is code for 'black lives don't matter'. In case some folks need the 411.

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5. Liked his summary

Only thing missing is a mention of the attempts of a few to turn this into an issue of entitlement vs the real issue of making sure long-delayed justice is met in order to bring things up to equality.

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