1 min readAug 6, 2020
Thanks for this, and yes, you are right in that our oversensitivity to small and unknown nuances in language is making it HARDER to communicate.
As to BLM, however, "all lives matter" is a pejorative - the term "Black Lives Matter", which actually stands for a movement, actually means "Black lives have not mattered, but SHOULD matter", not "only Black lives matter". The ALM chant is based on a gross misinterpretation of the BLM phrase, and is, for most who use it, deliberately intended to diminish BLM.