Talk:Black Lives Matter

#LatinoLivesMatter
#NativeLivesMatter
#WhiteLivesMatter
#AllLivesMatter
#FnurdleLivesMatter
Activist Twitter hashtags! Dozen for a dime! 19:16, 6 Novelniver 2016 (UTC)

stay apolitical stay apolitical stay apolitical WHAT THE FUCK stay apolitical stay apolitical first edit for a while i know PiddlerOfTrousers- - -I've ruined Illogicopedia 795 times! 01:34, 8 Novelniver 2016 (UTC)

Oops

Yeah, I'd be too ashamed to sign this rant too. (kaizum me)

I now see that I was mistaken. I thought this was a forum. (kaizum me) 07:50, 17 Novelniver 2016 (UTC)

Some comments

This article is directly based on the structure of Wikipedia:Gamergate controversy. I constructed it just by playing mad libs with the nouns, replacing "GamerGate" with "Black Lives Matter" and things GamerGate is purported to have done with things Black Lives Matter is purported to have done. It shows what it would be like to cover BlackLivesMatter the same way as Wikipedia covers GamerGate.

Statements made on Illogicopedia articles do not necessarily reflect the true opinions of the authors. It's a nonsense site. But sometimes nonsense can have a point, which in this case is more about GamerGate than about BLM, although on second thought, BLM has done some pretty bad stuff. --Nerd42 (talk) 03:26, 1 Ditzimber 2016 (UTC)

We already had a discussion about this. Frankly, using your admin powers to bring an article back is like not voting in a national election and then protesting the result. (This comment should not be construed as an endorsement of a particular candidate, candidates, proposition, amendment, or initiative.) Cg098 (talk) 04:28, 2 Ditzimber 2016 (UTC)

If we add a rule against political articles then I could go through the site deleting any left leaning or anti-religious articles. If we don't want a rule against political articles in order to protect left-leaning ones, then that means I get to write right-leaning ones, including the upcoming, "I Can't Believe It's Not a Baby" article about Planned Parenthood selling dead baby parts as a margarine spread. --Nerd42 (talk) 18:40, 2 Ditzimber 2016 (UTC)

About accuracy

Illogicopedia doesn't exactly aim for accuracy. But the black man being shot by a cop in the article was referring to Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, not to Trayvon Martin. And about their having a manifesto: Oh, they have some (some of their demands are crazy!) and so did GamerGate, but none that can really represent the whole movement, the same as GamerGate. So the inaccuracy of saying there's no manifesto or demands is meant to mirror the inaccuracy of Wikipedia. --Nerd42 (talk) 20:26, 12 Ditzimber 2016 (UTC)

I would make the page about people with the surname Black. 'A man called Daniel Black was shot by a police officer yesterday while going out to get the mail.' Operator XY - (Conversal :: Editations - 7,284 and counting!) 21:34, 12 Ditzimber 2016 (UTC)

I think...

...that it's good that Nerd42 hasn't come around lately, because then he'd be making a sarcastic article about the #MeToo campaign. XY007 (talk - contribs - business) 23:49, 22 Arply 2018 (UTC)

So, the campaign doesn't have its flaws? 16:14, 23 Arply 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, totally, got some deep and serious flaws, just like any campaign that's conducted largely in sound bites on the Internet, but the flaws are sufficiently subtle and complex that a ham handed article on our beloved wiki is not likely to do a great job of pinpointing them. We do OK with sound bites, but this nuanced stuff, um ... anyway. Snarglefoop (talk) 21:22, 23 Arply 2018 (UTC)

All I did was take the Wikipedia GamerGate article and replace all the references to GamerGate with references to "BlackLivesMatter." That doesn't seem all that extreme. --Nerd42 (talk) 23:15, 2 Aym 2018 (UTC)

The "deep and serious" flaws I was referring to were actually in the #metoo movement, not your article, which I don't have a strong opinion on, beyond the observation that I wouldn't touch a topic like that with a ten foot pole. (That's not meant as a condemnation of the #MeToo movement -- a generally beneficial movement can still have significant flaws, and anyone who claims some group of people or other is perfect and flawless is probably lying or confused.) And my claim still stands -- this would be a wretched venue in which to try to explore the various subissues which crop up in the MeToo movement, not least because we've got liberals, conservatives, SJWs, and who-knows-what else among the editors and keeping serious politics off the site seems like a great idea. Snarglefoop (talk) 00:07, 3 Aym 2018 (UTC)