This is the first time I’ve ever emailed a brand (Glossier) and told them I will switch brands if they don’t publicly sever ties with her. Doubt it’ll do anything but maybe!
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Yeah, about that “random Target”:
Love, respect, and solidarity to those rising up in Minneapolis, LA, Memphis, and all over this miserable country. If you want to help bail out those arrested, please contribute here: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate
“Accounts seem to vary about where Huxley is now, but he may be in the foster care system current. Not with a “forever family””
Exactly. If someone started a thread called “Let’s discuss levels of taxation in different regions through America!” or something, yeah, that’s unnecessary politics. But these were skaters talking about their direct experiences.
Like, I understand the impulse to want “fun skating talk” to be its own thing if people were bombarding those posts with thoughts on the 2020 Dem primary or something.
2. She had posted as recently as 2018 about wanting a second special needs child from China
Wow! I literally JUST (an hour ago) joined the Planet Roller Skaters FB group and read the posts and watched the video. I just left the group. I, like most people in quarantine, bought a pair of skates (and had a hell of a time just FINDING pair) and can’t wait to start skating. It seemed like the community was so…
Being raised by these parents would probably not be in his best interest.
#4- He’s on a nice farm upstate, where he can run free with the other Spectrum Children.
Oh my god, “gotcha day”? My brother and I were adopted as infants, and it was VERY clear to us from the get-go - even though it was never actually said in so many words - that the days we were born were the days that we were born into our family, regardless of how many days it took for us to be officially placed in…
On #3. Besides from the fact that the kids could go ‘oh heck, they could get rid of ME’ and how fucked up that is, it could also go ‘well, if I don’t like something/someone that is different than me, I can just get rid of it/them’. Really messing up future relationships, both familial, social, and professional.
This ‘family as performance’ shit is angering in ways I cannot reasonably put into words using my mushy quarantine brain.
My friend was given back to the adoption agency after his first set of parents decided he was too sullen as baby. I think good riddance to those people, he ended up with a loving family and was too young to really remember that first family. These people publicly documented his stay with them so it’s out there…
A few things to add color to the discussion:
We should not be feeling a sense of normalcy right now. Things are not normal! We can take incremental steps forward ONLY IF we continue to wear masks and distance ourselves from people who we do not live with. Masks should be compulsory right now. I wish we were ticketing everyone who isn’t wearing one. Make it a…
Admittedly, my memory of the dark ages of the year 2000 is a little hazy, but I feel like blackface was well established as being very offensive at that time.
“din— nuf—” was invented on the white supremacist blog The Right Stuff in 2015. And those who don’t trade in the deep internet wars (white supremacist vs antifascist) definitely had not even heard that term until much later (like 2018), if at all. She definitely traded in those wars.