I’d like to get a look at her updated resume after this. Also exempt from punishment: the “all-star” board who were supposed to look after the best interests of shareholders/investors. Thumbs up to y’all.

Exactly, I thought this was fishy the first time I heard of the company and mentioned it to my mom, who spent her career as a lab technologist. Just from my 30 second thumbnail she spent 15 min explaining to me all the reasons their pitch was almost certainly impossible.

Aaaand I bet this woman gets zero jail time for any of this. Got to love the judicial system here in the U.S., the higher up the totem pole you are the less likely you will ever go to the jail. I bet if I stole just a fraction of that kind of money they would lock me in prison without a second thought.

Um, why the slap on the wrist?

I had to be the only black person in America who didn’t celebrate when OJ was acquitted. All I saw was a domestic abuser who finally killed his victim and that’s something too many men get away regardless of race.

“But now that O.J. has hypothetically confessed on national television, I understand how you feel that our system shouldn’t let an unrepentant killer walk around white women all willy-nilly. He may have been found not guilty in a court of law, but that doesn’t mean he is innocent. What if he’s triggered by a different…

The local news article mentions he tied her up and raped her. Is that not a violent rape?

Yeah I mean... These kids watched their friends die and were subjected to mega trauma a couple of weeks ago.... Maybe don’t put this amount of pressure on children? To take up every mantle ever? They’re literal children, speaking from their own terrible experience. Think they’re doing a pretty stellar job considering,…

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. . .

Because women can never, ever win.

Indeed. And not all of the activists are white. In fact, the most powerful voice among them is Emma Gonzalez:

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.

Good god, are men literally allergic to responsibility?

“17 white lives”

Are you sure about that?

It’s good for your own recovery process and to change for the better. But to be used to explain or excuse to the public and to your victims? Nope.

Women like a bad man: “Why do women always go for assholes who treat them badly? Ugh. There’s no point being a nice guy.”

Women don’t like a bad man: “If women were nicer to him he probably wouldn’t have done what he did!”

I don’t know her personally, but I run in the same circles as her. MOST people who dress up like this know that you should ALWAYS ask first because most museums and historical places (especially the big ones like the Met) are not cool with this sort of thing. So this gets a big eyeroll from me.

I’m having a hard time with this, I have to admit. Lewinsky did not deserve to be a media punching bag. She did not deserve to experience any part of the horrible circus we all witnessed. The Starr investigation is so vivid in my mind. I remember feeling so so sorry for her and I still do. What kind of life has this…

Stopped reading at “to make yourself famous?”