whatever Grant told you (1) that it didn’t matter what ethnic origin/race the person is, if they are unvaccinated he was less bothered what happened to them and their race didn’t enter into it.
Your proposition (2.5) ignored (1) and you instead framed it as evidence of a contradictory attitude i.e. why treat an unvaxxed black person differently to George Floyd if you say that you are committed to equality (in the vein of what BLM said in response to the killing of GF).
I know what Grant said in point 1, but when you’ve thrown your support behind a race-centred cause such as ‘Black Lives Matter’ surely you can’t just conveniently drop it when it potentially comes in to conflict with another of your supposed causes?!
whatever Your proposition (2.5) ignored (1) and you instead framed it as evidence of a contradictory attitude i.e. why treat an unvaxxed black person differently to George Floyd if you say that you are committed to equality (in the vein of what BLM said in response to the killing of GF).
You have again completely ignored the question I asked Grant which led to the question I posed in 2.5 . My question was:
hugopal If the exact same thing happened to George Floyd, but he was also unvaccinated, would you have supported the cop? It’s a simple question.
To which he replied:
You (whatever) have completely misrepresented my framing here; which was rather: why treat George Floyd differently just because he is unvaxxed?
Further to that, it is a perfectly valid question to then ask how much you really think that black lives matter, when you think that suddenly they really don’t matter if they just don’t take the vaccine (and there are a lot who haven’t).
So in response to Mono’s post (which was speaking to something I hadn’t said), it is impossible to say that being unvaxxed and ‘black lives matter’ “aren’t mututally exclusive” when you’ve literally already said that whether a black life matters or not is contingent on whether they are vaxxed or not.
My proposition 2.5 was just a follow-on point from this, because based on Grant’s logic a black life still matters if they’ve robbed a woman at gunpoint, but it stops mattering if they don’t get vaxxed. Hence in Grant’s morality not getting vaccinated must be a worse crime than robbing a woman at gunpoint.
