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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•All men rule
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    19 days ago

    Yes, it becomes a bit of a tautology almost. “Not all men, just the ones that are those type of man and the ones ok with hanging around those type of man”.

    There’s this problem with “not all men, but always a man” where making it an absolute makes it literally not true and so there’s pushback from people who you actually want to bring on board. It’s that fine line of creating a pithy slogan that’s inflammatory/engaging enough to spread but hopefully not too inaccurate as to undermine the message. “Not literally always a man but a depressingly high number because all you’d need is one counter example in all of human history to disprove it and those are happening daily just at far lower rates than what we’re trying to bring attention to” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

    “Black lives matter” really could’ve been “Black lives matter too” and I think it would’ve had much more goodwill and broad agreement, but probably wouldn’t have been as viral either.