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Many people are having problems telling the difference between there, their and they’re. Nobody was consulting the dictionary, and everybody was busy crafting catchy slogans.In this case the dictionary definition is, or was, the vernacular. If they didn't mean 'stop funding' then they shouldn't have said 'stop funding'. It was a really bad time to try to introduce a new definition.
I don’t reject the concept of “all lives matter”, I reject the people who came up with it intending to mischaracterize BLM. Intent matters.Rejection of 'all lives matter' can come across as racist, as if the only lives that matter are black. That exclusivity is a reason people didn't and don't get behind BLM.