Philosophy Friday

It's been an interesting couple of weeks in the world of social media.
Lots of lovely caring comments following my accident.
Drawn into the whole discussion of equality via my position in the outdoor sector.
Having to think long and hard about how far off the mark the Facebook term "friends" is. I've never really got the having a page and followers, but I think I find that preferable than being considered a friend of people making some of the comments this week.

And then BLM.
Where to start? Ive spent a lot of time recently doing Implicit Association Tests (unconscious bias). I'd like to think I'm fairly woke, that I don't care about a lot of the surface, and mostly that's true. Notably I've some strong reactions to things most would find distasteful: bullies, sexism, racism. But we all have a lean one way or another, always good to learn.
And then I dipped into social media again. I'm now a couple of dozen 'friends' less, my soul a little lighter.
It's not enough to walk on by, it's wrong to silently disagree. There are no acceptable excuses. Centuries of silence brought us to today. All lives do matter but not all lives are lost with a knee on a neck. I was castigated for using Banksy's kicking the door in analogy as an incitement to violence. Well if you put me or my friend in a choke hold I'd expect a riot. But then I'm white and chances are it would never happen to me.

Philosophy Friday
This is how white privilege sounds:
People keeps saying "its horrible that a black man was killed but destroying property must stop"
What if we all said "it's horrible that property is being destroyed but killing black men must stop"
We're prioritising the wrong thing.