![]() Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. Reddit user GeekAesthete made this point in a thread explaining why the phrase "all lives matter" is offensive: ![]() The point of Black Lives Matter isn't to suggest that black lives should be or are more important than all other lives, but instead that black people's lives are relatively undervalued in the US (and more likely to be ended by police), and the country needs to recognize that inequity to bring an end to it. ![]() One of the most common responses to "Black Lives Matter" is "all lives matter." But that response misses the point, as this great cartoon from Kris Straub at Chainsawsuit demonstrates:
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