Is this racist?

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Is this racist?

zeitgeist057 · Accepted Answer

No, it's not racist at all. It's just ignorant. People who counter the "Black Lives Matter" statement with "All Lives Matter" or "Blue Lives Matter" or some similar statement are not inherently racist. I believe most of them are just misguided. They take the statement "Black Lives Matter", and add subtext to it in their minds, so they hear/see it as "ONLY Black Lives Matter". Then they get upset about the thing they just created in their head, and refute the paper tiger by saying, 'hey, that's not cool. White lives matter, too! And cops, and everyone! ALL lives matter!"

This allows them to feel like they have defeated the terrible monster of "reverse racism" that they manifested when they added "(ONLY)" to "Black Lives Matter" in their heads.

In actuality, if there is any subtext to be added to "Black Lives Matter", it would be like in the photo above, to read "Black Lives Matter, Too.". This is more in alignment with the reason BLM became a thing. It was a cry out that a disproportionate number of POC are at risk/dying. The message through our culture, that black lives don't matter, and this continued mistreatment of black and other POC as second class citizens is justified.

I'm sure there are also plenty of intelligent, yet racist, people who fully understand the meaning and sentiment of "Black Lives Matter", but choose to be obtuse and spread confusion in order to nurture division and hatred. Mix them in with the ignorant and easily confused masses, and you end up with the backlash we've had from the "All Lives Matter" response.

Datboi65 · Accepted Answer

I think I cracked it. White Trump supporters just want a "participation trophy" in this movement too. Nobody said "White Lives Don't Matter", yet here we are again. I didn't see them say "Stop White Hate" after the Anti-Asian attacks that took place in March of 2021, right? And of course that would be ridiculous if they did. Then why do they only do it to Black people? Because they a) wanna sabotage anything and everything Black people do and b) want more and more attention for themselves.

Now let's talk about this Black dude wearing the shirt. This guy is part of a 13% group of Black men that vote Republican, so their word only means 13% statistically speaking anyway. I see this all the time where Trumpers overhyped the few Black Republicans they see because they found them a quote-on-quote "Black ally" or shall I say "token negro" to assist them in their misdeeds. On paper, what the words are not racist, but they are very very very petty. I don't see Black people telling White people on their movements "Make America Black" or "it should be Proud Negroes not Proud Boys" but here you have them saying "All Lives Matter" and "White Lives Matter" and this guy subscribing to it. He wouldn't otherwise if he wasn't trying to make them happy.

randomuser_27258 · Accepted Answer

With 0 context. No.

With context... thats a very slippery slope. (Yes, white lives do matter. Inherently yes. Always and forever. However this messge is obviously very politically driven.)

The thing I find odd as a Black woman is that modern Black people have only felt the "crumbs" of true American racism. We are honestly very privileged compared to when were legally allowed to be owned, shackled, worked to death, beaten and killed without justice. Where the N-word was practically your nickname by every other white person you encounter.

I'm saying this, living in a very privileged time for us, that I wonder how our ancestors, in 1500s whatever, would have felt about that shirt. When they're the ones who've experienced the cruelest form of racism and the most extreme Black-White power dynamic. Yet, it's almost as if we modern Black people speak for them. They suffer so much, so we could live better. Yet their very privileged children wear things that are commonly used to discredit a movement made for them. If we lived though a tiny fraction of their pain and saw the true horrors commited, I wonder if he (a very privileged 2020 black man) would still be wearing that shirt. Because yes, white lives. matter... yet this is the same politically made shirt a KKK member or Neo Nazi would proudly wear without batting a lash. The same people who want him dead.

I dunno, food for thought.

Alwayreckles93 · Accepted Answer

Oh my god are you serious right now? Yeah if you go out and eat a hamburger 🍔 that's racist. If you used the bathroom that is racist even if you sneeze 🤧 that is considered racist so yeah everything is racist. Sarcasm 😊

Anonymous · Answer

Only if you are stuck in The Intersectional/Identitarian Woke mindset - Lives matter period but The Intersectional/Identitarian Woke are more to blame for the rise in current levels of 'racism' as they are breaking the populous into tribes, Black, Asian, White etc. This helps none but are more to blame for the rise in shootings as they are breaking the populous into tribes, Black, Asian, White etc. This helps none but The Intersectional/Identitarian Woke, while limiting any cross group communication that would be able to resolve problems at a local level.

The Intersectional/Identitarian Woke are using the old divide and conquer to stop anyone clearly see what they are doing aided by leftist and RINO Politicians and the MSM, it is time for voters to take a long hard look at those they have voted into office to represent them and see if they are doing anything productive that makes the voters lives easier or are those representatives only doing what they can to feather their own nests.

captain_voidwalker · Answer

What i find interesting is that prior to the whole race baiting the media was doing because muh orange man hurts muh fee fees. There wasn't much racism. Then suddenly because orange man bad , every white person became a reeeeecist. Now you idiots have screamed racist for so long that the black and Hispanic communities are like shut the fuck up. White people aren't the problem, mainstream media and the zombie horde that follows them are the problem. You see the mainstream media and democrat and old Republican party depend on us bieng divided and poor. Trump came in and united us, yes thats right United us to solve the real problems in this nation. When I went to trump rallies you had white, black , Hispanic , Asian, men and women in huge numbers.
I myself am Hispanic, so let me tell you crazy leftists something. Fuck you no matter what your skin color is. You fucking politics is the problem. You pushing socialism is the problem. Your complete inability to analyze any situation and just blindly follow CNN or Fox news is the problem.
Next time you wanna whine about reeeeecism, or complain about cultural appropriation of what ever your silly little cushy lives compel you to think is a problem I want you to stop and perform these 3 steps.
1 shut the fuck up
2 observe the larger situation and take in multiple sources of information.
3 don't complain, offer up a solution to the problem.

Anonymous · Answer

White people get murdered by police more than black people get murdered by police. This is a fact. The only reason this is a fact is because white people make up the vast majority of the United State's population. Those white people were not murdered by police because they were white. That's the difference.

I'm white and I have never feared for my life when being pulled over. My black friend who was in the passenger seat was terrified. I was the one driving, but this cops eyes were on my friend the entire time. Another time, both me and that same friend were in a store with our bookbags on because we had just gotten off of our bus and the bus stop was down the road from this store. I watched the employee stalk my friend the second he walked in the door. My freind was then accused of stealing because he was black and was wearing a bookbag. Amazingly, I was standing right next to my friend also wearing a bookbag and was never questioned. This employee knew what time it was and what time school gets out.

No, this isn't racist but it is ignorant. A lot of people who support "white lives matter" are racist. There are also a lot of people who support "white lives matter" who are just misguided.

WalkingInTheRain7 · Answer

No, not on the surface. All lives matter, regardless of race. By wearing this shirt, he's calling out the warrantless aggression and hostility that's been launched against white people for no reason at all. Alongside those who accuse white people of being racist just because they are white. If anything, white people are being persecuted without a cause, simply for being white, and attempting to enforce so called "justice" for what black people have suffered throughout history at the hands of racism and bigotry. Anyone who assumes, out of context, that this is racist on the surface is truly ignorant and needs to wake up to the deception they are under.

blissinanarchy1 · Answer

It's not racist, it's just misled. A lot of people assume Black Lives Matter means only Black lives matter. Or that Black Lives Matter is only concerned when the life is taken by a white man and doesn't address black on black violence. This is because a lot of people who use the name and affiliation BLM and stray from the geniune idea. The counter protests may have good intentions but are completely misled. I have an argument for this, that breaks it down really simply, but ALM protesters typically get mad. If you and I went on a hike, you, along with others, and you broke your leg, you'd get the others to pick you up and carry you back. You NEED that assistance. But now imagine me, saying "My leg matters too. Carry me too." And when responded to that his leg is broke, I geniuenely don't believe his leg is broken, I think he's exaggerating and can walk. That would be the philosophy of All Lives Matter and other groups.

Dargil · Answer

Nope. It is an expression of G0d's truth. We and just failed to live up to it at times. So did others.
Slavery. Their lives mattered.
Trail of Tears (my personal un-favorite). "Our" lives mattered when we were marched to Oklahoma, and to death like the Bataan Death March.
The Bataan Death March. The Japanese marched us to death.
Japanese internment by FDR
Vietnam. The Tonkin Incident was BS.
Russians slaughtering Ukrainian civilians.
There's plenty of guilt to go around.
All lives matter.

KennethNoisewater · Answer

I think that shirt is funny as hell. It's the stupid shirts that are the funniest. It's definitely a Karen shirt. I believe that's the funny angle of the shirt. That's what Karen would wear to a BLM event with her overly supportive spineless husband would be cheating on making sure every knew the they matter too.

Now if Karen wore it, that would be more ignorant or racist because it's not worn to be funny at that point. People need to get off this "only 2 options" for everything. You have more than 2 options for probably everything ever in history but I don't know. I don't think he is wearing it to flip off white people. I think he is wearing to flip off the Karen/Derek type people. Instead of getting mad that he is a racist take a second and think about how much humor is in that shirt.

JustiReno · Answer

Not sure if you can see the sticker, but kind of have a thing against white trucks when some guy rammed the side of my BMW when I wouldn’t let him merge into my lane. When I stopped my car and took pictures of my car he looked like he wanted to bait me into getting shot lol white people be like that tho I got slammed on a cop car once and the cops were on my ass like you bout to get raped where you’re going boy

TheorionMage · Answer

KUDOS to this Dude!
BASIC fact... ALL lives matter!
Ethnicity is NO excuse to engage in socially 'criminal' activities
and to not expect CONSEQUENCES~ Threaten myself or my loved ones
and MY LAST consideration will be YOUR race. 'Double-tapped'
(Head & chest) 'DEAD' looks EXACTLY the same... regardless of YOUR race.

Seldom cited are the statistics of minority-upon-minority community violence!
'Thug life' regardless of ethnicity is a 'high mortality' career CHOICE~

lightbulb27 · Answer

Firstly I applaud his choice of margaritas.
Does the back have a list of all the non black people killed same way as George Floyd… or cops killed by criminals in scenarios like George was in when the criminal got the upper hand? Then make more sense.
Beyond that I’m tired of the erroneous black white differentiation.

Nothing wrong with pina coladas as well…

Commander_Red · Answer

Sure, white lives matter, but the problem is that white people take it out of context and make it about themselves. Everyone knows that every single life is precious, but in the United States, it's black Americans that are being unfairly killed and racially profiled. The way police treat white criminals for doing the exact same crime as a black criminal is very evident.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Nope! But, in SOME twisted way, it now IS racist NOT to be racist so, that means EVERYTHING is racist so, we no longer have to worry about it!! EVERYONE and every THING is racist so, we can all just finally be cool, chill the fuck out and not worry about it, anymore!! Just pretend the word no longer exists!! EVERYTHING is racist so, we no longer need to use it to qualify or label anything, anymore!! :-) Isn't that great?

Richy_Rich · Answer

Probably not racist but who knows. Jokes are jokes until they are taken serious. It doesn't make sence if the meaning changes with a different tone of voice. It could be. ... its a stupid shirt.
Its all a touchy subject. And for no reason other than the liberal democrats just using it as a decoy like they alway pull out of thair hat.

Apulu_3 · Answer

I don't know. It's a black wearing that. I can't understand what to say rather than that every lives matter. Really a tough question.

Crazycookie23 · Answer

A black man showing love to white people? Absolutely not racist at all.  We need MORE love between us cause Lord knows... smh

ImNoOne111 · Answer

I don't think so. I was always curious why if a woman says I'm proud to be a woman gets praise but if a man says I'm proud to be a man, gets called sexist. If I was him I would wear a t-shirt with this line on it "All lives matter, no matter the race"

snowboarder720 · Answer

It’s not racist. It’s pointless. Since when do white people live in a government that suppresses them into where they need to stand up for themselves? Never.

sage2021 · Answer

It's refreshing to see a black person actually acknowledge another race besides their own. More of them should be like this person. 👋☮️

menina · Answer

I wouldn't call it racist, but it doesn't make sense. Of course white people's lives matter too. But a black person who wears a shirt that says that has no clue of what Black Lives Matter means or why it exists.

Anonymous · Answer

I don’t think it’s racist, but who is saying white lives don’t matter in the first place?

Subarugirl · Answer

the term Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean that they matter more it means that their lives matter just as much as everyone else’s.

lrina · Answer

it says that white lives matter too, implying that everyone matters. so no, quite the opposite.

t_time · Answer

I don't think that's racist at all. I think all lives matter.

Yunganddumb6765 · Answer

If you take out the word white and put the word black and it sounds hateful then it's racist. For example white entertainment television. If this is offensive then surely black lives matters is offensive.

Bratsondanielle · Answer

That's very racist !!! Only black !! You can't say anything positive about the damn whites yo (yes libtards I'm sarcastic)

dustybiker · Answer

It’s a slant. It comes across as arrogant. It doesn’t help anything. Personal choices are free to be had though.

skytatoe · Answer

And its a black dude wearing it, enough to make SJW's heads explode hahahaha To answer the question, no, lives matter, train the shitty police force better etc...

Heartache0405 · Answer

I see nothing racist about it, no. Only leftist democrats who support racist movements like blm would find it racist

Anonymous · Answer

Na just ignorant.  It isn't racist but it is ignorant and you could argue inconsiderate and uncourteous. You have to 1st understand why it is ignorant though.

Exterminatore · Answer

Sure. Everything is racist. His shirt, dogs, flip flops, pencils, Mountain Dew, trucks, Jupiter, intake manifolds, claw hammers and walnuts. All racist as hell.

kuladiamond · Answer

No lives matter, there i did it! Now its not racist since nothing matters XD

Oigit · Answer

I don't think it is and the fact that it will get peoples panties in a wad is a huge bonus.

StephiC · Answer

No. Just provocative. He's looking to step on the toes of people who are sensitive.

Sabretooth · Answer

that's the intent. this is the victim mentality that conservatives have. racism is not an issue we not now nor have we ever faced. this could also be an attempt at trolling... with people like Owens who fillates white supremacists... who knows.

Anonymous · Answer

This is what the average black man with internalized self hate that only dates wanna be black white women that fetishizes them looks like 🙄

jshm2 · Answer

Yes. How dare a Black man drink something that White

andreasderjuengere · Answer

The guy looks 'cool'.  But there's a comma missing?

cth96190 · Answer

No, it is not (wacist). own group preference is a natural instinct.

zoe2187 · Answer

No not at all! It’s about time. No shit please. It’s my opinion.

Luopio27 · Answer

Im black and I am proud of the shirt he is wearing and the message he is sending.

NYCQuestions1976 · Answer

The upside-down beer in the giant piña colada is epic.

ticonderoga2 · Answer

This is cool. @McCheetah like. We need more of this period.

Grubhub · Answer

Absolutely not along as a f you don’t act racist I have no problem with a white lives matter movement.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Look at that uncle Tom. 🙄

DWornock · Answer

It would not be racist if the the T-shirt said, "Black lives matter but white lives matter more."

red324 · Answer

It's funny when a black guy wears it. It's a joke people.

YesIWouldLikeFries · Answer

It should read all lives matter. Don't bring colour into it.

Alyssa_11 · Answer

It’s not racist it’s ignorant

Cherry234 · Answer

It's not racist, just ignorant.

Flower7 · Answer

No, not at all. I think it’s sweet.

OddBeMe · Answer

Racist in context when you’re trying to pull focus from a civil rights issue.

GingerTossah · Answer

No, 1. It's clearly a joke2. He's black. If it offends u.. grow up... Snowflake

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Not racist. Those snowflakes just like to make things look racist for attention.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Absolutely not especially since the "too" is there.

Deserter · Answer

No, anyone that says otherwise is mentally retarded

Blackbeauty80 · Answer

HE IS A RACIST !!! HOW DARE HE IS ASHAMED OF BEING BLACK!!! HE IS RETARDED!!!

Anonymous · Answer

No, this is funny 😁😀  hope he enjoyed his drink.

DizzyDesii · Answer

The shirts not even real. I can see the photoshop

XXblack88 · Answer

Nope not at all. I like his shirt

Fiend88 · Answer

NO! Purple lives matter too. Is that racist?

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