Well, that's one way to tailgate

Keith Law has joined the fun.

because he's wrong?

I avoid middle schoolers at all costs, I will cross the street to avoid a middle schooler.

In the post, we see an exuberant, happy, unselfconscious kid who just wants to jump around, have fun, and play with anyone who'll join him. In many of the comments, we see the social forces that will do their damnedest to crush that out of him. Courage, small person. Keep being you, keep doing the Calvin and Hobbes…

I like that combination of being happily weird and giving no fucks.

HOLY SHIT, LOOK AT ME??!!! LOOK AT ME?!!!?!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Every student I had today when grammar time came along.

I work in a cubicle. I can space out with the best of them.

Finally, my true calling in lif-... wait, what was I saying? I, umm...

For real. She's a stunning ethereal goddess and he looks like a sleepy foot.

Either he's saying that black people are loud or that black people speak intelligibly. Either way, it's racist.

it's so ubiquitous in imagery and the like that i genuinely think some people don't know of its history and just accept it as the norm...which might be scarier.

it's not even like...good racism. it's like, stupid racism, a la justin bieber, or in other words, finding joy by uttering inappropriate words:

I like her music too. But if her music sucked, this racist shit still wouldn't be okay.

Us black folk have been "mistaken" for primates in some form or another since the beginning of black people. It's kind of a thing.

New? Hahahahah...no. More like old enough to have fallen out of common knowledge only to roll back in what with the increasing prominence of racist bullshit these days.

There is a long history of comparing black people to monkeys that stretching back to the slave trade. There is a particularly ugly part that happened during the beginning of the last century where we'd display black children with dwarfism alongside monkeys in zoo exhibits as the "missing link".

Re: the repetition of the "monkey" slur. Not the point of this story at all but this is why I roll my fucking eyes when people claim not to know about the negro-ape metaphor (especially that they are too young to know about it) whenever yet another famous black person is portrayed as a monkey/gorilla/chimp in a…

Everyone knows the best way to get your celebrity crush to do what you want is to racially insult their significant other. This is why Jennifer Aniston spends all her time on Twitter calling Angelina Jolie a cracker.