And it’s hardly a ringing endorsement of corporal punishment. Surely if it worked they would have turned out better than kids who were never beaten?

WTMFF? I mean, I live in a European country, so stuff is different, but WTMFF? Do you have any idea how many times I (white, middle-class) didn’t do my homework at age fifteen because, I dunno, I’d rather hang out with my first boyfriend? I almost flunked a couple of times!

A 3-month stay in juvenile detention, costs the state of Michigan north of $42k per child. Average cost of a year of college in Michigan, $14k. Prison industrial complex...

Wait, is it really fair to compare Gillum to Kanye, Torry, and Talib?? The actions of those three have not caused harm just to themselves but to others either explicitly (and possibly severely in the case of Torry assuming the rumors are true) or implicitly (like the descendants of Harriet Tubman having to defend their…

“My parents beat me and I turned out alright!”

Yup. The entire system is incentivized to cause harm to those who need protection. Was it by coincidence or by deliberate construct from its beginning? I don’t know. All I can see is what it is now, and what it is now is a complete and total perversion of any social value it pretends it provides.

Well that’s not going to help her with all that very important homework now, is it?  Stupid, and wasteful system.

This is what I tried to tell people about the child services/social services self-preservation techniques! This is about three things: the case worker wielding her minimal power (read how she doesn’t care for the mom and finds the girl ‘troubling’ [read: mouthy]), 2) who gets funding for Grace when she’s in a facility…

Ok, I teach. I have had probation officers contact me about what students were doing. They do make it a major point to students that doing their work is something judges consider very important if you are on probation. I had a student who was constantly on house arrest and eventually left the school because the judge…

What lesson does the judge think she is teaching her?

I’m sure there’s an overlapping Venn Diagram of 90's/00's hotep/misogynist rappers.

Your last two sentences sent shivers down my spine. But you’re probably right. GodDAMNit

How about passing the voter rights act that Moscow Mitch stood in opposition of? You want to make change start by retaking the Senate.

That and the fear. His whole rant reeks of white, testosterone-driven, fear.

No shit, because they are the same as that piece of shit as the sex crimes offender, anymore talk and they will be tracked and traced.

My, My, My! The trolls that said that Ahmaud Arbery deserved to die because he supposedly shoplifted in the past are awfully quiet about this development in the case.

Nope. All forms of misanthropy!

Looks like he has a little pedophilia sprinkled in, too

A misogynist and a bigot...is anyone surprised?

They can do two things:

1 - Rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge