{"id":101976,"date":"2016-07-22T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T00:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101976"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T00:46:46","slug":"americanlivesmatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101976","title":{"rendered":"#AmericanLivesMatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF+\"http:\/\/ephblog.com\/2016\/07\/18\/americanlivesmatter\/\">Blog<\/a>: #AmericanLivesMatter<br \/>\nThis is, obviously, a take off of #blacklivesmatter. Regardless of your views on the righteousness (or not) of the BLM argument, at least 75% of Americans would like to move beyond it, after the BLM-inspired tragedies of Dallas and Baton Rouge. The easiest way to do that is not with the neo-reactionary #whitelivesmatter or the traditional #bluelivesmatter but, instead, with a slogan that unites all of these while, at the same time, proving the (sadly) necessary other for people to unify against. The most natural such grouping, in the context of a US Presidential election, is Americans. Hence: #AmericanLivesMatter.<br \/>\nAlthough Trump is the most natural proponent of such a slogan, Hillary Clinton is due for a Sister Souljah moment and could (easily?) pivot to ALM from BLM at the Democratic Convention. Perhaps presidential speech writer Jon Lovett \u201904 knows someone in the Hillary campaign?<br \/>\nOr perhaps #AmericansMatter would be better. Or #AmericaMatters. These shift the focus away from an implicit repudiation of the BLM movement while still using the key word americans\/america. Readers should feel free to chime in! What slogan\/hashtag is most likely to win the presidential election for the candidate who first embraces it?<\/p>\n<p>* <A HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IllConsiglieri\/status\/756651174384762880\">Tweet<\/a>: &#8220;The Japanese like Japan: its language, its culture, its cuisine, &#038; its lack of illegal immigrants that hate Japan!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog: #AmericanLivesMatter This is, obviously, a take off of #blacklivesmatter. Regardless of your views on the righteousness (or not) of the BLM argument, at least 75% of Americans would like to move beyond it, after the BLM-inspired tragedies of Dallas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101977,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101976\/revisions\/101977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}