So let me get this right, you’re having brunch with some drinks (details which aren’t necessary) and your first thought is “I hope the killer isn’t etc...”? Soooo sorry your brunch was interrupted for you to have to hope the killer matched a particular race...
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Her intentions are good, but I can imagine a whole lot of brown/black people feeling incredibly uncomfortable being asked to come to the front. What if they’re happy standing or sitting where they are? They came to a concert, not be used as a prop.
Despite what Alcoholics Anonymous and other 13-step programs will tell you, there’s more than one way to be in recovery. Also, we judge people by their actions, not their addictions.
Well, when black mass shooters kill black people, it’s generally referenced like “the club got shot up” or run of the mill gang violence. It’s not framed as an event as much as it is framed as “everyday life in the hood.” I’m not making a judgment on this, just elaborating on the difference in how I see these crimes…
I tried making that point on Twitter and oh dear was that ever a mistake on my part.
We don’t know if it is an act of terrorism. If the motive is political and/or religious then, yes, this was an act of terrorism. If it was any other reason like he hated the singer and his fans or little green men in space told him to do it or he wanted to feel what it was like to be God and smite people or whatever,…
I found it telling that the mother was in the comments talking about how CPS intervention in that case affected HER, and that she and her brother were hit with belts and it made them have respect for their parents. I felt some sympathy for her before that (she was nineteen and clearly wasn’t aware how wrong it was…
...commentariat was overwhelmingly unsympathetic to the mothers, who they saw as violent and/or manipulative...
Sorry, were we supposed to be sympathetic to the mother who beat her two-year-old with a belt and never acknowledged or took responsibility for the harm she did to her child?
Animal pee in the kitchen sink isn’t ‘messy’, its ‘dirty’ and a health hazard.
How does a person with a functioning brain not know how to clean?
Hire a housekeeper. I get it, you’re busy and you never learned how to clean a house. Everyone will also chime in to say your husband could do it and so on. Okay. Still, hire a housekeeper. Knowing CPS won’t get involved in your parental rights is a low standard to set for yourself.
Heck, I can give them one. A former child client of mine tracked me down on FB and we met and she thanked me profusely for saving her life. She wants me to help her write a book about the experience.
No, the comment section correctly called out myopic naval gazing thinkpieces that apologised for child abuse. Jez should be absolutely ashamed for enabling this.
“By my second time in court, I also learned that the judge I had had a reputation for being tough. She expected parents to be accountable for their actions and address the issues that had brought them to her court.”
The whole series would SO benefit from having the kids’ voice involved. Kid who feel they shouldn’t have been pulled but were and why, kids who should have been taken away but weren’t and why, looks at how the various separations affect the kids in general (which I have found lacking in every story so far). The…
No judge would EVER say I advise you to plead guilty. Never. A lawyer would be MANDATED to report that judge and if s/he did not could face penalties. I worked for many years as a a lawyer in the system. That is simply not credible.
I found the second story very interesting since it does mention the biases people have to deal with in the system, and the father also admitted his own faults when he realized his kids felt they had to parent their own addicted parents and how he’d tried buying their love until realizing their own behavior was the…
No thanks, I’m good.