re: So how many of you think that if the brave female sheriff's deputy

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It's not. You just think it is because you're some woke granola with enough white guilt for this entire forum.

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You know, you are partially correct. I am woke...woke to the fact that words have meaning. Stating black lives matter does not in any manner suggest other lives matter less or not at all. It can be understood to mean a couple of things...

One is black lives matter in a vacuum. I guess this is true, but I don't see that as relevant to anything.

Another is black lives matter more than other lives.

Another is black lives are the only lives that matter at all.

And yet another is that black lives matter as much as any life.

One of these is irrelevant because it has no real meaning. What is 'in a vacuum"? Two are relevant because they could actually be what some BLM supporters are claiming....but the last is the most relevant because the VAST majority of BLM supporters who have weighed in on the subject state this is their understanding of the phrase. Most BLM supporters are not insinuating anything other than black lives matter as much as any life....but a heaping pile of BLM detractors immediately opine, upon hearing the phrase, that all lives matter...suggesting they think BLM is all about black lives to the detriment of other lives. The only way they came to this conclusion is either through ignorance of what BLM and the vast majority of supporters state when ask or out of irrational fear....