I don’t feel bad for him. Stop throwing fucking garbage in the ocean, twat.

New thing - babyshaming - what a small baby - mine was 4 weeks early and that’s how much he weighed. 2 weeks late? No excuse for that tiny baby. Small man; small baby.

Alright, Pickle, now write a letter to Betsy Devos and get her to fix your schoolin’, because you’re a pretty dumb kid.

Terry Crews is such an interesting choice - don’t get me wrong, he’s fuckin awesome - but not a usual metaphorical go-to.

Yeah, but there’s a shallow-ness to the “caring too much” about one’s own children - if you don’t have the capacity to extend empathy to the children of strangers, what is really the quality of the love you have for your child? Personally I’ve become MORE empathetic about the plight of other children since becoming a…

I...don’t want to see this? I mean, if you want to “discuss race” it might be more useful to show an alternate universe where white people are the slaves, but can you imagine what the reaction to THAT would be? This is fucking insane. How slavery has extended to the current condition of black people in America is…

I know fighting fire with fire probably isn’t the way to go but I can’t help but wonder if the problem of racism in America might be solved faster if more white people got even just a little taste like this of what it feels like to be negatively discriminated against based solely on the colour of your skin? I’m white,…

lol

And what does the fact that they legally didn’t have to do anything say about the society they’re growing up in?

Sorry I just had to chime in and say Going to the Beach (In My Boots) should be burning up the Country Charts in Summer 2018.

Great, funny article - there’s just no point getting mad at the hypocrisy anymore, it’s only worthy of mocking derision.

If it was my kid I’d be shifting the blame where it belongs - on me.

YES. Thank you. Better said than my attempt.

Of course. I might be contemplating different root causes - a group of white kids laughing watching a black man drown would have distinct implications - but again you’d have to look at where it even entered their heads that it was okay to do so. The voices in this recording are not the voices of children who think…

But when you say “commits a capital crime in an egregious manner” are you suggesting they this is somehow adult behaviour so they should be treated as adults? Isn’t an adult killing another person almost the least mature and rational thing an adult can do? A child who studies hard and saves their allowance for college…

Yes they are at an age where a man drowning should make them want to get help. They absolutely are. So why didn’t they want to? Because of something they’re responsible for? Or because of something that was/wasn’t done to/for them by the adults/society that ARE responsible for minors?

But we are products of our genetics and environment - both immediate in terms of caregivers and at large in terms of the society we live in - as we get older we become more responsible for the environment we put ourselves in (though how much those “choices” are determined by our genes/upbringing is another story) but…

Absolutely. I agree. So what happened to these kids - or what was lacking from their lives in terms of adult guidance - that caused them to behave this way? That’s what I’m asking. Instead of just dismissing them as monsters.

Here’s my humble contribution to the fixing of the problem for today: Don’t dismiss these children as monsters. Don’t decry their lack of empathy by failing to have empathy for them yourself.

It’s not that I’m saying they did nothing wrong - I’m saying something wrong was done to them - either directly or by what they’ve absorbed from the world around them - to make them behave this way. Something totally beyond their control at this point in their lives.