A+. It’s so hard but yes, teaching her to sniff out the bullshit sooner rather than later will be a valuable skill.

Good point, although I think we’re approaching the point (if not already passed it) where black and brown people are NOT minorities?

A gun IS a tool, though. It does a job, and it can kill you if you don’t use it properly and treat it with respect.

Seconded.

Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick. My mom used to tell me about how she and her classmates would have to practice hiding under their desks in case of nuclear war, circa 1962, and I would laugh. Now, as the mother of school age children, I’m just terrified.

“Got to play with my new toy today!” *squee*

So the bigots win?

If florists are offended by selling flowers and bakers are offended by selling cakes, they need new careers.

Yes. This really isn’t a difficult distinction to make; I suspect some people are just that determined to cling to their bigotry.

Being discriminated against is pretty harmful.

Do you really think the price of goods will suddenly rise so high as to basically cancel out a livable wage? Sounds like right-wing scaremongering to me.

Exactly. Obviously, skilled workers should be paid more. They’d have no reason to do their jobs if they could make the same livable wage on an easier job.

Uh, don’t you think they could negotiate for higher salaries? Schools can’t operate without them, and school boards have an incentive to pay them more than a fast food worker.

...no.

Right?

You keep saying “it doesn’t matter” YES IT DOES. A picture is not a gun, or a drug, or a bottle of booze. It’s a PICTURE, that, again, was on her private property, that he had to GO LOOKING FOR. Jesus Christ, are you the tomato troll or what?

But it’s cool, we can earn less because the job creators are able generate more wealth.

I was arguing with an idiot on FB about this. She’s against raising minimum wage, and she literally made my jaw drop when she said “I went into teaching KNOWING it would be a low-paying job.” Goddamn, teacher lady, use your critical thinking skills. That’s a great fucking reason to change things, not dumbly accept the…

And as someone pointed out, nobody would have ever seen it because it was ON HER PRIVATE PROPERTY that he had NO BUSINESS TOUCHING.

Depends on the drugs. Legally prescribed to her, or are you floating the hypothetical that she has balloons full of smack in her purse?