Very good analogy. That is basically what is going on here. The BlackLivesMatter folk didn't take into account how easily mockable the hashtag/title would be. Whites and conservatives are far more publicly aggressive against people who discuss race than in the pre-FoxNews era. And social media changes things. That there is a Blue Lives Matter is very police state-y. As if anyone we take seriously (read excluding nut jobs) is actually stating the opposite. It would be nice if officers stood up against the bad apples who make them all look bad.
I know: my mom is nearly 70 and all she watches every night are shows about cops and corpses, CSI and similar British crap. Seems like cops get huge attention on TV, and they're basically always the good guys. Cops still want more adulation than that? They're getting to Mariah Carey diva level. . . .
I disagree with none of that (though the bit about outrage is rather subjective). False. People who commit criminal acts are criminals. They are not convicted criminals until they receive due process. If a SWAT sniper takes out a bank robber holding someone hostage, they are not a murderer, they are a hero. The person they killed was a hostage taking, bank robbing criminal, even though they never saw a courtroom. I have not seen that at all. Is there a representative example case you can give where cops act as though someone's life doesn't matter? Certainly not Michael Brown (self-defense), Sandra Bland (suicide), Tamir Rice (self-defense), or Eric Garner (restraining an uncooperative suspect).
I would say that Eric Garner was treated like his life did not matter. He even said he could not breathe. There are many other instances - such as the guy shot in the back for running away from a cop, the kid shot for being in the front seat of a car, the guy shot for driving away from a cop, the man shot at walmart, the kid shot with a toy gun. In all those cases demonstrate that their lives mean less than what they should matter. You can disagree, but that is the perspective many people have.
