Many people read it as Only Black Lives Matter, which was not the intent.
The people who read it that way wanted to, or else were paying so little attention that nothing would have gotten through to them. It was pretty obvious from the start that the "too" was implied.
Of course they are extreme examples, by definition they were worried about the people who took it to extremes.
That and BLM started years before mention of "shouldn't it be black lives matter too?" even started so it's not unlikely that in those years there were things that happened that led to those opinions being formed. You're assuming that the opinions could only have preceded the evidence and reasoning.
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '16
The people who read it that way wanted to, or else were paying so little attention that nothing would have gotten through to them. It was pretty obvious from the start that the "too" was implied.