It takes a special kind of individual to scream and yell at 14-17 year olds that aren't your own. Assclown.

Dude, you may be the only one that believes his story that he didn’t think he was shooting at his girlfriend.

“You know what the values tell you? Why are you 15-years-old and letting some boy take advantage of you?”

White male privilege: What ‘s it called when nonwhite people shoot others? Drive through any city, and truthfully, it isn't white males shooting people approximately 40 times each day across the country. Every day.

There very well be mental illness at play here. But mental illness doesn’t equal violence. Plus, as Obama noted a few years ago, the US doesn’t have a monopoly on mental illness. We sadly aren’t even the only country with widespread white male privilege and national political figures who spew out hateful rhetoric that…

Mental illness without guns is much better than mental illness with guns.

This. I would give my left nut for all the shit this kid got out of being questioned by the police for a few hours. He’s been rewarded enough already.

Physical and mental anguish? It thought he had offers from magnet schools across the country and that they were even moving to Qatar or somewhere to go to a special engineering school free of charge?

Fuck that. This was the best thing that ever happened to this kid, and he was in no way ‘damaged’ to the point of 15 million dollars.

he won’t, and now the kid looks like a money-grubbing asshat.

I am starting to feel this way, too. It’s looking more and more like a circus/money grab by his father.

JENNY.

I’m mortified to have to pay 50%! [While] I use the NHS, I can’t use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit, and I’ve gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [the album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly…

The Ivies have been under suspicion for deliberately suppressing Asian acceptance rates much like they used to for the Jews back in the 20s and 30s.

Yes, you’re absolutely right. I just think if you’re among the students who are leading this discussion and engaging with the administration to present a list of the issues you see on campus and possible ways to address these problems, you’ll need all the credibility you can muster. Tears aren’t going to get you…

The ‘out of control of their bodies’ thing really got me too. If you are at Yale, “falling out” is the wrong way to react to a meeting. If you can’t keep yourself from dissolving into a blubbering, flailing heap in front of someone you want to persuade right now, what are you going to do after school? Are you going to…

Yale, bruv - not Berkeley. Yale and the rest of the Ivies have had it up to here with those pesky 92 %ile scoring Asian kids what with their spelling bees and cello playing!

It would be if they just went by grades and scores.

Yes. Thanks for your comment. I’m deeply confused at the equation of not crying with not having empathy. These are professionals in a professional setting behaving professionally. I have total respect for the frustrations of the students in that meeting, but their equation of visible displays of emotion with…

“....on November 5, in a fancy boardroom at Woodbridge Hall, ... about 50 students sat around a big round table, crying for four hours.”