Whose Lives Matter? Ninth Circuit Rules on Punishment of Six-Year-Old White Girl Who Said

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Whose Lives Matter? Ninth Circuit Rules on Punishment of Six-Year-Old White Girl Who Said It Was ‘Any Life’


A child punished for saying “any life” matters exposes a deeper truth: in today’s America, dissent from approved narratives isn’t debated—it’s punished.


On X, someone pointed out that, in modern England, any drawings made by children in art class might be considered blasphemous or idolatrous by Muslims:



I replied as follows:


In a related note, a white American 6-year-old was punished for blasphemy against Black Lives Matter (by saying “any life” matters).

A six-year-old white girl was punished because she wrote “Black lives mater/any life [sic]” after a lesson about Martin Luther King in March, 2021—because blacks are treated as sacred by American culture, especially in public schools.

The Pacific Legal Foundation wrote in 2024 (emphases added):

B.B. was introduced to the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in her first-grade class in California, during a lesson about Martin Luther King, Jr. Hearing the phrase, she felt empathy for her friend and classmate who is black. So, B.B. drew a picture of them and two other friends and wrote “Black Lives Mater [sic]” across the top.

Below, she added “any life” and handed the picture to her friend.

Little did she know her caring gesture would prompt a shocking overreaction from the school and a dangerous legal precedent that leaves children completely stripped of constitutional rights.

When B.B.’s classmate took the drawing home, her mother contacted the school, concerned that her daughter was being singled out for her race. In response, the school principal forced B.B. to apologize to her friend, banned her from drawing at school, and banned her from recess for two weeks.

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