Fox News Anchor: "All Lives Matter" Is "Derogatory and Divisive"

He didn't chastise him. Calm down Nancy.

It did sound like fodder from MSNBC though

All lives matter is only derogatory to some because it doesn't fit their agenda. The truth is all lives matter, but the truth is little found in these situations.

Next time someone tells you "all lives matter," show them this cartoon

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The point of Black Lives Matter isn't to suggest that black lives should be or are more important than all other lives, but instead that black people's lives are relatively undervalued in the US (and more likely to be ended by police), and the country needs to recognize that inequity to bring an end to it.

Reddit user GeekAesthete made this point in a thread explaining why the phrase "all lives matter" is offensive:

Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now, that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's smart-arse comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that you still haven't gotten any!

Straub's cartoon echoes this point: If a house is burning down, you're obviously going to focus on putting out the fire instead of watering a house that's just fine. In this analogy, black lives are the burning house, and everyone else is living much more comfortably in the house that isn't burning down. Clearly, one is a bigger problem.

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not that I agree with the above

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not that I agree with the above

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Why didn't they call themselves "Black Lives Matter, Too" then?

The larger problem is Black Lives Matter isn't even addressing "all" black lives. Just the ones that die at the hand of police brutality.

What about the older people who have lived in primarily black communities with high rates of violent crime who can't defend themselves? Or kids in those communities that are on the cusp of falling to gang violence but still have a chance at making it out?

I used to work in an inner-city, incredibly diverse low achieving school with a majority black population. Want to know how many times I saw those Black Lives Matter protestors/supporters actually show up to volunteer with black students? Or chaperone a field trip? Participate in the Everyone Reads program by coming in and simply reading to kids (and in our area low-income black males typically have the lowest literacy scores)?

Why should I care about their community if they don't even make a legitimate effort in trying to make their own communities better?

That anchor went to Ole Miss. He can go to hell as well.

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What is this world coming to? How can saying that "all lives matter" is in any way, shape, or form considered deorgatory or divisive, and surely will eventually be considered racist.

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if it's in response to BLM, then it's not that difficult of a concept

That's assuming most black people don't want to help their community. Which is very ignorant on your part

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if it's in response to BLM, then it's not that difficult of a concept

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I heartily disagree.

How can "all lives matter" be considered derogatory, divisive, racist, or anything other than respectful, kind, and a symbol of unity?

"All Lives Matter" doesn't mean that only white lives matter, it means that ALL lives matter. For the ignorant people supporting the claims that it is anything but, they should get a dictionary and look up the word "all." "All Lives Matter" means that white lives, black lives, Asian lives, Jewish lives, Indian lives, Arabic lives, and all other nationalities, ethnicities, religions, etc. MATTER!

By saying that anything other than "Black Lives Matter" is in any way racist is, in and of itself, RACIST. IMO, the BLM Movement should be labeled a hate group and exposed as the racist, incendiary, hate group that it really is.