It’s fair to call white people out for resting on privilege and ignoring injustice.

THANK YOU. Aside from the blatant inaccuracy of calling these activists “white kids” (and, yes, I see the P.S. that was added by the author and am not impressed—do better, Root), it’s worth acknowledging that these are teens. They are waking up to what life is like, what privilege means, and they are doing it…

They’ve explicitely talked about how they are inspired by #blacklivesmatter. They’re already trying to signal boost for people and movements that don’t have the privilege of the megaphone that whitness and affluence gives them. . .

I also think the parents of the Sandy Hook children were kind of ignored; it was treated like “well, off course they’d feel that way. But they’re not really rational right now.” And I also think they were devastated in a way that made it very hard for many of them to do anything (understandably). Whereas with the MSD…

We’re looking at you, Occupy Wall Street.

I mean, you’re not wrong that this is definitely a thing. I just don’t think that it is the national narrative.

Exactly. Remember this POS lived, this should absolutely go down as a hate crime based on his nazism. Which for some reason basically no news outlet is talking about. Not that you’d want to give him any air time I suppose.

I don’t see this as necessarily “moderation”, but more a process of chipping away these problems in manageable parts, which increases the likelihood of overall success. It DOES mean you have to actually continue the work.

I’m not seeing that attitude from liberals, not on any kind of scale. Definitely seeing that with conservatives, who don’t give a shit about anybody who’s not white.

Goddamn, I hadn’t even heard that! But it’s true. That is criminally under-reported.

the two things that is criminally under reported is (1) the shooter literally carved swastikas into the side of his gun and (2) the school has a very large jewish population

no

I don’t think that Emma Gonzalez is trying to assimilate a la Marco Rubio.

Yeah, the kids were not all white. There were no black children killed, but there were several Latinx children and an Asian child. And that doesn’t include the other children who were injured.

17 white lives

Hold up. The main woke girl is latinx, and so were multiple victims in this shit. Are we really at the “not black = white” level here

Nuns are legit insane. One of my evil grandmother’s cousins went to Australia with her order back in the 1920s and they pretty much built a town. For, like, forty years they just built and built, and the last thing they built was their own retirement home.

Counterpoint: Stick to one issue at a time. If you try to attach Michael’s laundry list of wishes to your goal, you’ll accomplish nothing and the odds of you accomplishing anything are pretty thin to start with.

“17 white lives”

Are you sure about that?

Anyone who went to Catholic school knows nuns aren’t to be fucked with.