Do BLM or ALM?

[Penelope]

Thank you for including two three joke options.

Black Lives Matter. Any other answer shows a profound delusion and willful ignorance of America's history, social inequalities, and broken criminal justice system.

The forum always has a classic 65/35 divide on issues of "liberalism" and "freedom" that don't directly invade the precious and privileged little bubbles of upper-middle-class white boys. It is polls like these that show exactly who constitutes the membership of this forum - sickening that a less than insignificant sum of "liberals" and "progressives" think "All Lives Matter". Jesus Christ.

It's pretty easy to sort out the real progressives from the pretend progressives. The real ones are always trying to help identify and overcome social inequalities; the fake ones are always eager to trot out their "statistics" and "logic" from the Institute of My Ass to prove how ending the mass incarceration of black Americans (or any other social injustice) would be totally infringing on the freedoms of suburban middle-class straight white guys.

[Penelope]

You shouldn't have to walk back All Lives Matter. It's a perfectly reasonable statement.

Sure. However, in the same context as, and especially in response to, the statement "Black Lives Matter" it is not 'reasonable'. It's a perfectly reasonable assertion to say that all lives matter in general. Nobody is going to disagree with that. When you put capital letters on it and dress it up as a response to a movement meant to highlight the inherent inequality and injustice in our society, it's an extremely dismissive and ignorant statement.