Karen Stollznow
Civil Society, The Americas
 
Responding to “Black Lives Matter” with “all lives matter” derails the specific conversation about racism against Black people. The phrase is seen to dismiss, ignore, or deny these problems — it shuts down this important discussion.
This week acting Australian Prime Minister Michael McCormack uttered a controversial phrase.
Defending previous comments in which he compared the Capitol riots to the Black Lives Matter protests, he asserted,
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