{"title":"Trivialization and Disembodiment of the Black Lives Matter Movement through the Hashtag #BlackLinesMatter","authors":"Ann Amicucci","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2022.2148235","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The hashtag #BlackLinesMatter, with lines replacing lives , proliferates on social media among users who couch the tag in humor. The #Lines hashtag devalues the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement through implicit trivialization of the movement ’ s necessity and explicit microaggression toward issues of race. Through an accumulation of #Lines content, social media users disembody BLM and detract from the movement ’ s ability to demonstrate the harm done to Black individuals by systemic racism.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Rhetoric Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2022.2148235","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The hashtag #BlackLinesMatter, with lines replacing lives , proliferates on social media among users who couch the tag in humor. The #Lines hashtag devalues the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement through implicit trivialization of the movement ’ s necessity and explicit microaggression toward issues of race. Through an accumulation of #Lines content, social media users disembody BLM and detract from the movement ’ s ability to demonstrate the harm done to Black individuals by systemic racism.
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Rhetoric Review (RR), a scholarly interdisciplinary journal of rhetoric, publishes in all areas of rhetoric and writing and provides a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues. The journal publishes manuscripts that explore the breadth and depth of the discipline, including history, theory, writing, praxis, philosophy, professional writing, rhetorical criticism, cultural studies, multiple literacies, technology, literature, public address, graduate education, and professional issues. Rhetoric Review also invites readers to contribute to the Burkean Parlor, a discourse forum for discussion of Rhetoric Review"s published articles, as well as professional issues. Essay reviews, commissioned by the editor, are included as a regular feature.