Yeah - it’s a massive misreading of the matrix - should be more like this:

Word. I’m sure they’re sincerely sorry... For shooting themselves in the foot and destroying their business by sharing hateful views that got outed. Highly doubt they had a sudden, total turnaround in worldview. They just got caught. They’ll still be attempting to use women; it’ll just be a bit harder now that they…

Um... depression and anxiety are symptoms of mental illness...

I didn’t say her viewpoint is worthless. I said I take it with a huge grain of salt. I’ve got bipolar disorder myself, so I actually do have personal experience with mental illness. She’s a mentally ill teenager. So was I. I would have said the same sort of things about my parents and they wouldn’t have been true. I…

I swear I remember hearing/reading that at the time Rosie adopted her, there were serious issues. What they were sort of fit the “kid of an addict” trope but... I’m no defender of Rosie. However, I had to live with a family member after my parents death and she would be giving me shit for something(deserved half of…

It’s also pretty believable that Rosie, like just about every other actor/performer out there, has a public persona. It’s also equally believable that they feel free to drop it and relax at home where they don’t have to be “on”. We pretty much all do that.

I’m sure a lot of people who have a hate-on for Rosie O’Donnell will completely ignore the fact that this is coming from a teenager with a serious mental illness.

kinda telling that the terrible duo couldn’t even figure the Matrix out correctly.

I don’t have time, but the white kid suspended for the pop tart in the shape of a gun comes to mind.

There are crappy administrators, actually, quite a lot. And while statistics don’t lie, it doesn’t mean it’s ALWAYS race. Especially if the facts do not actually line up with what’s being implied in this story. Was this…

Richard J. McNally, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, while writing for Pacific Standard,^[15] discussed the merit of trigger warnings noting that “Trigger warnings are designed to help survivors avoid reminders of their trauma, thereby preventing emotional discomfort. Yet avoidance reinforces PTSD.…

You have PTSD about seeing someone who died 70 years ago?

It should upset you, and that wasn’t for titillation. Emmett Tills mom said SHOW the world what they did to my son.

We will never let the entire world forget.

[I didn’t post the picture] I think there are a time and a place for trigger warnings. I haven’t sussed out how far I want to go.

I also don’t understand how adding a trigger warning magically makes this not about using a black body as entertainment....like, as long as we put a trigger warning before stuff it’s fair game? “Oh, I thought he was just titillated by dead black bodies, but he warned me first, so he’s not and it’s all cool”

Far too many people don’t know the story of Till actually, that’s why there are people commenting on this that they “don’t understand how it could be a race thing” because we’re very quick to forget in this country.

So, yes, his mom did want these images to be used to help people remember why her son was tortured and…

This may shock you, but not all black people feel the same way as you. I’m black and I want the world to always see and remember this picture. When I see this picture, I see a boy whose future was cut short, not a black body as entertainment. I see a life, a story, something to be learned.

You know what is debilitating, for real? Being beaten to death for looking at a white girl. Get over yourself.

According to this article, the suspension was only for ONE FREAKIN’ DAY. Yes. ONE. WHOLE. DAY. Which is making me side eye the parents who are trying to make it sound like the kid was kicked out of this school for good.

We are getting all of our “facts” from the family of the accused. Making this a one sided story. I have a feeling there is more to this that they are leaving out. It’s one thing for the school to kick him out. It’s another thing for the court to look at the case and agree with the school.

Black person: “I’ve experienced racism before and I know this is racist”