I don't think people are misreading it. Everyone understands what "black lives matter" means. It's a phrase that's been co-opted by a political movement with a

I don't think people are misreading it. Everyone understands what "black lives matter" means. It's a phrase that's been co-opted by a political movement with a broader set of ideological commitments. It's possible to have legitimate disagreements with the movement, about e.g. protest tactics, statistics about bias in policing, defunding the police, institutional racism, or the Israel-Palestine conflict, without disagreeing with the claim that black lives matter.