Eeeeh. You know how lots of teenagers/early 20's still smoke cigs despite there being very clear messaging these days about it being very, very bad for you? People of a certain age are inclined to rebel against things they are repeatedly told not to do. If a group of five teenagers, three of whom are POC themselves, pa…

Seriously. The biggest take away isn’t that Woo thinks the Trump Administration has gone too far but that they didn’t do it in a constitutionally solid way. He’s using this op-ed to remind them he is out there: the creator of some serious evil shrouded in our flag.

For years I felt like a failure Asian compared to the stereotype, the feeling of defeat probably led me to make more unhealthy decisions that I otherwise would have passed on. Victory or bust! #solidarity

That would be “War-criminal John Yoo.”

So in essence he’s not saying that Trump’s policies are terrible and need to be fought until they are dead, he’s saying he just didn’t go about them the right way to avoid being shot down by the courts. Not sure that’s very woke.

What is prison going to teach them? If anything, the chances are high that it will harden them and make them desensitized to the effects of committing crime and/or cause being a criminal to become a part of their identity (which is still very much in development at that age), making them more likely to get thrown back…

I’ve been to jail. There’s not a lot of politicking until you get sent to prison and do hard time. Usually that’s if you have a sentence more than 3 years where I live. But agreed, jail wouldn’t help them either. People should be waaaay more reluctant to jail people. Jail is still a nightmare. Crime and punishment…

I’m sure John Woo does think Trump has gone too far.

I loved the Dear America books! I really remember the one about Julie Weiss, whose family sent her to America after the Anschluss, and she became an actress. Those books had such a big impact on me as a kid.

Or also kids do dumbass things to shock or be edgy.

Don’t be modest Johnny Boy. Thanks to you laying the groundwork for the Bush2 administration committing war crimes galore, you, yes you! are a major player of Cheetolini’s reign of idiocy.

fears that Donald Trump is abusing his executive power.

No, mostly it implies that they’re dumbass kids.

Are you under the impression that jail has a record of making inmates better people?

Being white and not Jewish are the main qualifiers for joining the AB. If ideological goals mattered enough for them to get over the whole not being white thing, they would align with some of the more radical Islamic groups in prison that also hate Jews. They don’t.

Slightly off topic, but does anyone else remember the Dear America series? I’ve realized recently that about half of school-age me’s knowledge of the Great Migration came from Color Me Dark (that book is the only reason I knew who W.E.B. Du Bois was before I got to college), and I can’t be the only one whose white-wash…

But moving them into a racially segregated prison system will teach them something? Even non-racist people come out of prison aligned to hate groups because hate groups in prison also keep you from getting beat up or raped.

I’m fine with this, honestly. It sounds like they’re actually going to be forced to sit and think through the dumb shit they did, rather than just be punished blindly and have their prejudices and ignorance fester and possibly deepen. After all, it’s not like sending them to prison would make them any less likely to…

FUCK I WOKE MY KID UP LAUGHING