And wasn’t Tamir Rice first described as being 19 after the cop shot him? Because 12 years is really 19 years in Black people age. We are constantly viewed as hypersexualized, more aggressive, and less innocent than nonPOC children when it comes to crime.

Yeah! I think, with kids, it can be important to remember that they’re not fully mature yet and, in a lot of circumstances, you might want to focus more on rehabilitative measures than you would with adults. But you can do that without dismissing the serious threat they’re posing.

Of course, the kid excuse seems to only apply to white kids. Michael Brown, you’ll recall, was a MAN at age 18 when he allegedly stole a cigarette or whatever the fuck it was that apparently justified that piece of shit ferguson officer murdering him.

I’m so sorry that happened to you.

I was sexually assaulted and raped by “just kids”. Apparently I should just get over that, because they didn’t mean any harm, due to their kidness.

C’mon it was just the act of kids! Boys will be boys! Racist, violent boys

Who cares if this was “just” the work of kids? Dylann Roof was 21. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 19. Kids shoot up their schools on a regular basis. Some kids can be legitimately dangerous.

Anna — how dare you refuse to treat all sex workers as societal pariahs who must simultaneously be shunned for their choice of occupation, patted on the head for being agency-lacking victims of patriarchy, and rescued by white savior feminists from the clutches of despair.

I’m a sex worker by choice. I’m lucky I have the choice and I love my work.

Sex workers don't need your fucking faux pity you can gtfo w this fucking condescending bullshit who asked you

Curve this homie like a bad toss

I will “exalt sex workers” all day long, if you mean “allow that some of them are human beings with free will who’ve chosen sex work.” As for people who do not choose sex work, but enter it through trafficking, coercion or economic hardship, I’ll put this part of the letter in again, in case you missed it:

Yes, because money should be your focus when reading the headline “48th woman comes forward about rape.”

You know, I don’t get paid for work I did in the 80s?

Translation: Whoopi’s handlers told her that she was starting to overdo the clueless starfucking rape apologist bullshit, so she issued a mealymouthed non-clarification. “Tried in the court of public opinion,” that’s cute.

Oh I suspect you and I have the exact same amount of legal experience, the difference is that I never claimed to be a lawyer. Other lawyers have already corrected your feeble grasp of the law, I was correcting you on logic alone. You have managed to be wrong in multiple directions at once, so I can see how you would…

NO. She needs to do her job, which is to do what’s best for the kids! Putting them in Juvie is the exact opposite of that. Does she know that kids can be beaten and raped in Juvenile detention? Does she care? She really has no business being a judge and should be removed. If she’s elected she should be voted out or…

I’m researching race and gender representations in literature as part of my work for my PhD, and goodness gracious it’s difficult to not just write everything in the form of a rant. I’ve joked that the title will be Let Me Ruin Everything You Like Because Everything is Terrible.

The so-called guardian they have was appointed by the court, and based on watching the hearing (live streamed) is the furthest thing from neutral there is. I feel like the mom must have personally turned him down for a date or killed his dog or something for him to have this much hate for her.

I teach Mockingbird. I am black and southern. I never thought an Atticus Finch would have had me over for dinner. Yet, I’ve had white students identify with this character and want to believe so badly that they too would be the heroic, bucking the system, society-be-damned progressive during that era. No one wants to…