&gt; Sometimes you call out a specific thing just to assert its truth.<p>It doesn&#x27;t work that way in English. If you call it out it&#x27;s because you feel there is something distinct about it that is different from the other members of its group.<p>Saying &quot;Black lives matter&quot; implicitly says &quot;and others don&#x27;t&quot;, and even if you won&#x27;t agree to that, at a bare minimum it says &quot;black lives matter more than other lives&quot;.<p>It doesn&#x27;t help that this slogan arose in a context of defending a black life that was trying to take another life, or at least harm another life. By defending such a person, as they have done, they are very clearly saying &quot;that black life matters more than other life&quot;.<p>Context matters. Every time they use that saying it reminds people that these activists are defending attempted murderers.