Of course that’s true. But it is also true that children (and it looks like he was 16 when the crime occurred) who commit these kind of crimes are also victims of crimes themselves. That’s just the reality. That’s why the Supreme Court found that sentencing children to mandatory life sentences is cruel and unusual…

We need to stop feeling personally victimized by these types of crimes. America is a very violent country. There are systemic reasons for this that must be addressed and they have a lot to do with economics and how we treat drugs as a criminal offense, rather than a public health one.

The commenters also no nothing about his background. Young people who commit these kind of crimes are almost always victims of crimes themselves. One of the reasons why the Supreme Court found that mandatory life without parole for children is unconsitutional is because children have little to no control over where…

I know, right? How dare people bring up her record to shed light on how empty her words are.

Bernie’s voting record cannot be described as myopic. He’s pioneered legislative amendments that have extended free healthcare to millions.

Hey, mind shooting me an article about what you call his racist militia support? This is the first I’ve heard of it.

Is that you Chelsea? #incarcerationnation

I appreciate your point of view. Some of these misinterpretations would be very funny if we weren’t so invested in the outcome of the nomination. Re. Bill Clinton, I didn’t personally take offense to what he said, but it was “off message” to what Hillary has been saying, regarding Obama’s legacy and also regarding the…

Thanks for responding. I think those were definitely gaffes, just like what Killer Mike said was a gaffe, too. The mainstream media definitely amplifies all these things more than they should. I personally took offense at Albright’s comments, but I guess I probably projected too much onto it, given that I am appalled…

Can you link to any of his writings that you believe are sexist? I would like to see them myself.

Can you give some examples of “fans” of Sanders twisting the words of Hillary and her supporters? As a #BernieBro myself, I want to makes sure I am not partaking in that. One of my biggest issues with Hillary Clinton is her foreign policy record, and I’m confident I don’t have that twisted.

we need to see more of these thinkpieces, i really haven’t had enough of them: “millenial without 20 years experience in congress and without ever having done one thing in her life to advance social justice tells man who has done both that he really doesn’t understand how things work”

I’m so, so very sorry for what you’ve experienced. Those 1 in 12 and 1 in 8 numbers really shocked me. It seems though that those numbers have been debunked, though it is very true that trans people and trans POC are more at risk for being victims of crime. I post this not to question what you’ve gone through, but to…

How exactly is this joke offensive? Serious question. Because I don’t think it’s offense to criticize the character of person, just because they happen to be trans or anything else for that matter...

Taste can be objective though...

Equating sleeping with an adult student to what happened in this case is kind of sick.

Umm, I think the fact that could not speak and likely had the IQ of a toddler is more relevant to the consent issue. FYI, he was not her student. He was the brother of her student. He was, however, her client/patient, despite her not being at all licensed in what she was aiming to do...

Perhaps you can focus instead on geopolitical violence wrought by the U.S. around the world instead of this trope that all men are violent oppressors in an ahistorial, non-geographical, out-of-context world. War and structural inequality (which made the Ebola outbreak a pandemic) beget more violence. Blaming men in…

I assumed what the commenter said was true. Has there been any false reporting on the timeline of this? It’s a strange thing to lie about...

It’s not out of the realm of possibility, just highly unlikely IMO. Bill Cosby’s case is not applicable here because he can legally pay victims off when they are bringing civil lawsuits, settle with them, and close it off from the public. Not saying it’s right, but was is a felony and the other is business as usual.…