That whole arming themselves to fight an oppressive government thing is just an excuse to own guns. Even the people who support that position know that it’s just an excuse.

Right up there with the “Cut the police some slack, it’s a dangerous job out there, everyone has guns!” and “Let everyone have guns”.

As opposed to the NRA calling Clinton and Obama the next Hitlers and advocating killing federal agents.

“You have to close the door. That’s protocol. We have no choice.”

NRA Nazis.... I hate NRA Nazis.

Neither side is wrong.

Why does this have stars

Congratulations. “White people invented movies, so we should only have white people in movies” is the stupidest thing I’ve read all day, and I’ve been reading Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment.

Good on her. White allies need to point this out instead of being defensive about it.

“...Sure, sure, we’ll get to that. AFTER the economics get fixed.”

I’m realizing that a lot of progressives don’t draw the correlation between gentrification (it’s a colorful up-and-coming area!) and a new form of red-lining.

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…

See, it’s this type of awareness by quite a few of these kids that I think is probably giving these politicians the biggest headache. Many of them seem quite focused and their social media savvy only helps them turn that youth movement into a hive like mind, because they’ve basically been given a green light to lay…

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. . .

That’s always said by those who don’t have to live with the shitty status quo. It doesn’t ring true, in fact, it sounds like a brush-off.

Yes, having your peers shot to death while you run for your life while at school clearly helped to shape her views. No shit.

Goddamn, I hadn’t even heard that! But it’s true. That is criminally under-reported.

I’m less concerned with these white and Hispanic kids (I don’t know what race any of them identify as), and more concerned with how white “liberal” adults are falling all over themselves to support these kids while remaining sheepishly silent when black kids fight for liberation. The white liberal adults are the ones…

I don’t think that Emma Gonzalez is trying to assimilate a la Marco Rubio.

“17 white lives”

Are you sure about that?