A house cat and a tiger are both cats, they will show the same behaviours and evoke the same emotions, yet they are completely different animals. To go even further, also Cheetahs, Leopards and Ocelots are cats and they will also show the same behaviours!
The point is:
> That is what makes this comparison valid
No it doesn't, the comparison is valid if the dissimilarities are less than the similarities. Which in this case, they aren't.
I've given you a simple order of magnitude argument, and you haven't given any evidence to the opposite.
> BLM is a nationwide (and global) organization
The fact, that you conflate BLM at large with a violent subgroup is concerting. Also you are assuming "they" are a (homogenous) group, are they? Who are "they"?
If you are really interested in discourse, take a different viewpoint for a second and make a list of dissimilarities. Wouldn't Cliff have been able to make the same point (condemn violent riots) by comparing "a house cat to an ocelot"? So why did he choose the tiger?
The point is:
> That is what makes this comparison valid
No it doesn't, the comparison is valid if the dissimilarities are less than the similarities. Which in this case, they aren't.
I've given you a simple order of magnitude argument, and you haven't given any evidence to the opposite.
> BLM is a nationwide (and global) organization
The fact, that you conflate BLM at large with a violent subgroup is concerting. Also you are assuming "they" are a (homogenous) group, are they? Who are "they"?
If you are really interested in discourse, take a different viewpoint for a second and make a list of dissimilarities. Wouldn't Cliff have been able to make the same point (condemn violent riots) by comparing "a house cat to an ocelot"? So why did he choose the tiger?