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"All lives matter" sounds a little different when you consider it in context: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/12/08/all-things-considered/ http://chainsawsui

• smsm42 12y ago
  That picture illustrates somebody putting water not on "all" houses but on one house - that does not appear to be burning (while attributing to the imaginary opponent the exceptionally stupid strawman argument of "we should always care about everything equally", which nobody ever has made) The implication to the current situation would be that somebody claims only non-black lives matter while the problem - I take the problem to be police brutality in general, or underlying causes of it, whatever you consider them be, since in the specific instances it is too late to do anything to prevent it, and as such can not be represented as "putting water on the fire" - does not happen exactly to such people. I do not think this is an adequate representation of the issue (see ESR link for more on that). But, the exclusivity is not the largest problem - I get the event-reaction pattern and the fact that specific instance can represent larger issue (even though I disagree with what exactly the large issue is). The violence is what I have the most problem with.