Social Justice: The Black Lives Matter Movement

In our society, social justice is becoming a lot more important and valuable. Social justice has inspired holidays, started movements, and even changing the way that people view social issues. However, as we get further into the future, social justice has begun to earn a bad name. A nickname has even been created for the most radical supporters of social justice: Social Justice Warriors (or SJWs). People are beginning to get sick of what modern social justice is doing; believing that everyone in our society already has equal opportunities to accomplish certain tasks. Social Justice has changed over the years for the worse, triggering (joke completely intended) angry modern feminists and nonsensical movements.
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An example of one of these movements is the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM). The movement began when an African American man was shot by a policeman. Other African Americans gathered to protest police brutality against blacks “peacefully.” Some people will tell you that you are allowed to support the BLM movement along with supporting the lives of the police. However, other sources say otherwise. You are not capable of supporting the Black Lives Matter and the Blue Lives Matter movements at the same time (Riddell). “This month, Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and other Republican senators introduced the Back the Blue Act, which would increase penalties against violent criminals who deliberately target police” (Riddell). “Shooting deaths of law-enforcement have spiked 78 percent in the first half of this year, including a 300 percent increase in ambush-style killings. And Friday, an officer was fatally shot and another was injured in San Diego as they tried to make a routine stop” (Riddell). These violent crimes are suspected to be related with Black Lives Matter. At the same time, the people who support Black Lives matter have not been able to forgive the police brutality of the past and can’t stop thinking of the large amounts of tear gas in the streets, black men getting more jail time, and in general just more police brutality toward their race. Ms. Jackson, a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, said in an email that crimes against police aren’t hate crimes and that saying that blue lives matter is offensive to the people who fought so hard for their rights. “‘Here’s the problem: being a police officer is an occupation, not an identity. This is a slap in the face to the decades of fighting advocates have done to procure hate crime protections for marginalized groups, and as we’ve seen in recent protests, police are known to