I’m not defending Stand Your Ground laws.

The term “uphold” (and “upheld”) is a term of art, and has a particular and important significance. If this were just mentioned in passing, that’d be one thing--but if you’re writing an article that gets into the weeds with regard to what SCOTUS is doing, or has done of late, it’s not unreasonable to ask that legal…

Things are already starting to fall apart in places like Texas and Idaho, and unless Dems can grow a spine soon, they’ll find that they’ve lost even a chance to be involved.

[A] resounding warning to Democratic members: “Defend Black women’s rights or don’t count on our votes.”

I’m not saying the guy in the story you linked shouldn’t have gone to jail—as far as I’m concerned his behavior was completely irrational. However, even if we assume that every jury in Florida were this jury, the two cases are highly distinguishable from one another.

Jackson has a more impressive resume than ACB. Murkowski is a ghoulish, mendacious white walker 

The fear has to be “reasonable”, as determined by a jury. Here the old man was unarmed and spouting slurs; Pujols came out from behind the counter (so put himself into “greater danger” by getting closer to a man whose only “weapons” were his own fists,) told the old man not to use the slur again, and then only punched …

But that’s what experts said about S.B. 8 when it initially came before the court in September, and the Supreme Court upheld it.

You’re correct, and I didn’t realize he was that old. I’m in my late-30s, but I still wouldn’t refer to anyone north of 20 or 21 “a kid”. I just assumed that when the article said ‘in consideration of his youth’ that he was probably young-young (like fresh out of high school or something.) It’s seems bizarre to hold…

Calling someone a racial slur also has some pretty predictable outcomes.

My thought is that Pujols is yet another less advantaged person with a worse outcome because he didn’t insist on having adequate legal counsel while being questioned by the police and whose biases may have set the stage for a more punitive outcome.

I don’t know what the situation was with the popcorn so I can’t comment on that. However, I will point out once again that the sequence of events here were that Pujols came out from behind the counter to affirmatively get closer to an unarmed old man who (from the looks and sound of it) was not more physically…

An man ran his mouth and encountered the natural consequences. Since he was soft, he died from those natural consequences.

I just don’t understand what your argument is- that we don’t need black bookstores because the books are available elsewhere?

I think it’s probably the case that Amazon doesn’t care about Black people beyond whatever money or labor they can extract from them, and sells whatever books because they are necessarily in the business of selling damn near literally everything. However, I think it’s beyond paranoid to think that Amazon is so white…

There’s no mention of threats above, and there’s no links to other articles (which is weird since they quote NBC and mention the the Tampa Bay Times,) but it’s not hard to believe that someone this unhinged was spouting off threats willy nilly.

The fear has to be reasonable (which is a jury question.) In this case, the old man wasn’t brandishing a weapon, and wasn’t coming behind the counter. Pujols came out from behind the counter and swung first (in fact, his was seemingly the only punch thrown, since this was a one-punch fight.) 

I get that you’re just venting on the internet, but realize that normalizing physical violence (particularly when it inadvertently results in death,) as a response to verbal abuse is a road that invariably benefits the group with with a disproportionately greater capacity for violence.

That sounds like a perfectly valid set of reasons to patronize this kind of establishment—but by your own admission, your patronage (in this instance) is driven more by a sense of activism than by any market need or niche that the store might be serving (as it may have once done.) In other words, these stores maybe…

Race politics are different in Miami. White Hispanics see themselves as white (full stop,) and growing up non-Black Cuban in Miami is functionally the equivalent of having white privilege anywhere else. I know because I lived it, and only actually experienced any real racism or discrimination when I went to college in…