Billie Eilish, the teenage pop breakout who has been the center of a global phenomenon with her song ‘Bad Guy’ and a heavy social media influence herself, denounced the reactionary ‘All Lives Matter’ movement which has been created in defiance of the more mainstream ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.
In a long, ranting and scathing overtone, she wrote and posted an essay of sorts on her Instagram account on Saturday. She begins by saying: ‘I’ve been trying to take this week to figure out a way to address this delicately. I have an enourmous [sic] platform and I try really hard to be respectful and take time to think through what I say and how I say it… But holy f**king s**t I’m gonna just start talking.
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‘If I hear one more person say “aLL liVeS maTtEr” one more f**king time I’m gonna lose my f**king mind.point 229 |
Will you shut the f**k uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup???? No one is saying your life doesn’t matter.point 79 | No one is saying your life is not hard.point 110 | No one is saying literally anything at all about you….point 157 | all you mfs do is find a way to make everything about yourself.point 208 |
This is not about you.point 18 | Stop making everything about you.point 47 | You are not in need.point 63 | You are not in danger,’ She poignantly remarks.point 109 | 1
She took many analogies and literary comparisons for her depiction, drawing comparisons like: ‘fire department to go to every other house on the block first because all houses matter’.point 391 |
‘No!’, Eilish wrote.point 30 | ‘Because they don’t f**king need it.point 69 | You are privileged whether you like it or not.point 107 | Society gives you privilege just for being white.point 149 | You can be poor, you can be struggling.point 181 | . and still your skin color is giving you more privilege than you even realize.point 246 |
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She continued: ‘The slogan of #BlackLivesMatter does not mean other lives don’t,’ she wrote.point 225 |
‘It’s calling attention to the fact that society clearly thinks black lives don’t f**king matter!!!!! And they f**king do!!!!!’ She ended the emotional appeal with the now obligatory ‘Black Lives Matter’ adages and ended with the hashtag #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd.point 252 |
This post is a part in a series of posts where she had angrily shared news and tribulations related to the death and plight of George Floyd.point 114 | She has also spoken directly against the President of the United States Donald Trump, calling him a part of the origin of the problem of systemic racism in Aemerica.point 251 | 1
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