For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

> the simple phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ is seen as a political dog whistle, rather than a desperate cry to bring attention to a dire situation that many people choose not to see.”

A little off-topic, but I notice a lot of the "All Lives Matter" people are mistaking the term "Black Lives Matter" as valuing black lives over others. I wonder if "Black Lives Matter Too" would convey its message better.

50% of the US has below 100 IQ. There is literally nothing you can do if some people can’t understand the meaning that “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t mean “Only Black Lives Matter”. I think it’s a small but loud percentage of the people believe this.

This has been discussed to death since the group started. The name was intentionally chosen and too was purposefully left off. If the phrase invokes a negative reaction but phrases like "Save the rainforest" or events like breast cancer awareness month don't invoke a similar reaction then it's meant to be introspective. I saw it translated with too in parenthesis in foreign newspapers in the beginning but not recently.

Several years in people constantly arguing all lives matter and disingenuously arguing the point after correction are also a good filter for trolls.

I have found that people replying with "All Lives Matter" are willfully trying to not understand where BLM is coming from. I've seen it so consistently, in so many contexts, from so many different people that I can't consider it a misunderstanding. It's more at the level of "I know you are but what am I."

More than a response this seems a rhetorical fallacy: "If they don't agree with me they're stupid". Maybe some of these people want to resolve racism but disliske the BLM methods? Are they stupid?

There’s nothing to disagree with. It’s been explained that “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t mean “Only Black Lives Matter” ad nauseum. If you still choose to say “All Lives Matter” then you’re being purposefully stupid. And that’s well explained by the fact that there are 150 million people with below average intelligence in the US. Of those 150M, there tens of millions that are one standard deviation lower than average. This explains the overreaction to the name.