I've refrained till now from ever firing off a post, comment or reply, "All lives matter."
Why?
Out of sheer politeness.
I understood perfectly well what the point of "Black lives matter" was, i.e., "We matter as much as everybody else!", and that to retort (why in principle would you retort?) with "All lives matter" was as much as to say, "There's no validity in what you mean."
I was never inclined to do that. Why on earth would I be?
But now, when people are getting fired from their jobs just for retweeting ("retweeting" of all the trivial things!) that "all lives matter" (dear God, have we been reduced to SUCH a pernicious thought-police society?)--FIRED for it, like something out of 1984 or Stalin's purges--and when the chants of "Black Lives Matter!" are accompanied on the streets by the percussion of African-American police-officer craniums exploding, well, that kind of "politeness" amounts to collaboration with Evil.
ALL. LIVES. MATTER.
Because, yes, they DO. And they are ALL worth defending, whatever it takes, against the demented, brain-fried, defecating-on-overturned-police-cars, store-owner-slaughtering savages.
Savage isn't a color. Savage is as savage does.
Life isn't a color, either. Life doesn't HAVE a color.
And ALL lives matter, or none do.
