The Black Lives Matter movement has progressed through emotionally connecting stories,

deceptively strung together narratives of truths and half truths which leave out vital information

which would contradict their narrative, and most of all perhaps through memes.

Now it should come as no surprise to those in our generation of short attention spans and

constant stimulation that a simple message in a meme can communicate far more than even this video perhaps.

But that's exactly the world we live in.

Let's take a look at a few memes that have been used by social justice advocates to promote the Black Lives

Matter movement.

So here's the first meme that looks like it's a fireman and he's explaining to a

bystander his actions he says well I think that all lives matter we should

care exactly equally at all times about everything so he takes his fire hose

out and he sprays it onto a house that is not on fire. And he could spray that

water onto the house next door which is on fire and it's within his power to put it out

but he chooses not to and as he does so he proclaims that all houses matter.

This is a popular one and I guess it's clever in a ridiculous sort of way.

It's really pigeonholing someone who says all lives matter

into a straw man in which they would defend

giving services that are not needed to one demographic

while ignoring another demographic which needs those

services but really what people are saying when they say all lives matter is that it

doesn't matter if you're red yellow black blue green polka dot it or striped if you're

in a house and it's on fire,

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