my phd advisor used to grab my ass whenever we were in the lab at the same time. if I couldn’t work in my lab, I couldn’t complete my dissertation research. (yes, I brought the issue to the department chair and the dean of students. yes, other female students of his in the past had done the same thing. no, no one ever…

lol

just gonna casually gloss over the racial aspect then, huh?

It’s only a trend if it’s accepted by the mainstream ON mainstream people.

She’s a black woman, discussing a subject that’s a problem with the way society views black women, and how that effects how they view themselves. I don’t think the problem here is her failing to recognize her privilege, I think the problem is that you’re missing the point of the article.

Yes really. She wanted to be a person with a smaller behind.

Weird, I didn’t have a hard time seeing him as human or relating. Maybe it’s you?

I sigh and roll my eyes every time I see her screen name.

Right? “Predeath love letter lacks balancing negatives, B-”

Sounds like Mel Gibson got PRAHNKED by them.

Things that are also “completely life destroying”: having a caravan of gun wielding, racist fucks roll up on your lawn DURING YOUR 8TH BIRTHDAY PARTY and threaten to violently murder you and everyone you love because you are black.  

You’ve given absolutely no objective rational as to why you’ve picked the arbitrary number of four years other than it “seems” reasonable to you. No references to comparable crimes and sentences given. None.

I dunno. Does 200+ years seem like an excessively long time to brutalize a race of people?

It’s weird that you claim this when I said nothing of the kind. I just refuse to stretch the definition of “kid” to people who are pushing 30 (Torres is 26) and I think implying that stealing things is worse than threatening a massacre at a birthday party is nuts. Those were bad arguments.

“These kids are 25-26"

These people are not kids. They are adults. They can vote. They have children of their own.

Maybe if 5 truck loads of people with guns showed up at your house and threatened to shoot you and your family you would understand better.

A 25 year old is not a kid. 12 year old Tamir Rice was shot for playing in a park, and you want me to concerned that a 25 year old grown man and woman have been sentenced to 6+ years for being terrorist?

These kids? 25 years olds are now kids? 13 years sounds right.

They threatened children with a shotgun for being black.