All Lives Matter, Except that Bug that I Just Stepped On: Aligning Our Politics with Our Values

I was thinking about the expression “All Lives Matter.” It’s often been used as a way of spiritually bypassing the Black Lives Matter…

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I was thinking about the expression “All Lives Matter.” It’s often been used as a way of spiritually bypassing the Black Lives Matter movement. People who use this phrase say it, as if anyone was objecting to the fact that all lives matter. I recently saw a post where someone was applying a similar statement to t…