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I guess I’ve never viewed it as a diversionary tactic.  When my wife complains about the clutter in the garage I don’t think I’m changing the subject or avoiding the problem when I tell her 90 percent of the stuff is hers.  Doesn’t mean I don’t have stuff to clean out but I’m not sure that is the best way to get a clean garage.

When people complain about blacks being murdered by white cops I’ve never felt like it was a diversionary tactic to point out far more blacks are being killed by blacks.  If you want black lives to matter that seems like a good place to start.

That being said, I can appreciate the arguments that we should have a higher standard for cops than common criminals.  I guess I still view it as unusual, isolated incidents.

I guess I’ve never viewed it as a diversionary tactic.  When my wife complains about the clutter in the garage I don’t think I’m changing the subject or avoiding the problem when I tell her 90 percent of the stuff is hers.  Doesn’t mean I don’t have stuff to clean out but I’m not sure that is the best way to get a clean garage.

When people complain about blacks being murdered by white cops I’ve never felt like it was a diversionary tactic to point out far more blacks are being killed by blacks.  If you want black lives to matter that seems like a good place to start.

It's a false analogy. If she was complaining about the clutter in the garage and you asked "well what about the cluttered kitchen cabinet?", that'd be the same thing.

A relevant tactic when discussing cop-on-black crime would be to compare it to cop-on-white crime to determine if the cop-on-citizen crime was racially motivated or racially disparate. A diversionary tactic would be to talk about citizen-on-citizen crime of any race, because it is irrelevant to the police doing their jobs without engaging in brutality.

Black Lives Matter is a misnomer, then.  That's not what the movement is about.  So no analogy is appropriate, because the movement itself isn't appropriately addressing its named cause.

The movement is about police violence against black people.  Which is fine, and reasonable, and just.  But to make an appropriate impact in the appropriate place-- to enable its own means to corrective action-- it should be called something else, something more specific, that targets the actual problem they're attempting to address.

Black Lives Matter is a misnomer, then.  That's not what the movement is about.  So no analogy is appropriate, because the movement itself isn't appropriately addressing its named cause.

The movement is about police violence against black people.  Which is fine, and reasonable, and just.  But to make an appropriate impact in the appropriate place-- to enable its own means to corrective action-- it should be called something else, something more specific, that targets the actual problem they're attempting to address.