I am, again, legit horrified by race relations in this country - but how did they look around a CVS for 30-45 minutes?

Also, so the cop helped them until they suddenly became a threat?

Uh. ACLU is pretty great about defending civil liberties even when you wish they wouldn’t. Want to elaborate?

There’s snark because black and brown people have been telling white people this stuff for ages but, as per usual, white people only get it when it impacts them more personally.

the misinformation is strong here.

Precisely. The fact is, some things are like Hitler.

CNN’s M.O. is to have a panel of ‘experts’ who discuss what they feel about what was said. Apparently that’s far easier to do than actual reporting and investigation. Those expert’s feelings then become the facts.

Or the racist history of his Cabinet. Or the fact that Neo Nazis are proclaiming his election as a victory. Or etc etc etc

Absolutely. The n-word has a lot more weight and prejudice behind it than pussy does, but it is the same kind of misplaced outrage. It is the ULTIMATE in hypocrisy to defend someone who speaks this way and then to be offended at the person who calls them out on it. Sometimes you have to quote someone IN FULL so…

Cry when a guest uses the n-word...but never, ever challenge the crap that came out of Trump’s mouth during the campaign and flows like a shit faucet today.

This week

They’ve done that with books too. Harry Potter definitely but I’m sure other things too. I said at the time if I was a published author I would not care what they did with the book after they’d paid for it and would, in fact, be secretly encouraging the protests because $$$$.

Or the time they decided to “protest” Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the anthem by buying his jerseys just to burn them. Jerseys are expensive and a percent of that money often goes to the player, so... good job there.

“Did you hear what those Dixie Chicks said about our president? Let’s buy their albums and then burn them, that will show them!”

And the statement is, “I am a fucking moron. Spit in my coffee.”

One could draw the conclusion that those who vote Republican aren’t the sharpest pencils in the pack, are they?

I’m kinda reminded of that time they tried to protest France not participating in the Iraq War--by buying French wine by the caseload and pouring it down the drain.

We call that Freedom Foam.

Give them a break. It’s not every day that you can report on the end of the world in real time.

You understand that Donald Fucking Trump is about to be our president and this is something people might want to actually fucking discuss, right? It’s kind of a thing.