the potential for entertainment

I don’t usually participate in online discussions, but I had to give my response to this article. The irony of this month being Pride month is not lost on me. It can feel sometimes like we have lost large portions of the few wins that we fought for in the last nine years, and that knowledge is depressing.

Scottathan. Scottward. Scotthew. My dude.

Martin Luther King died for THIS???

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/national/emma-gonzalez-hated-guns-before-now-shes-speaking-out-on-behalf-of-her-dead-classmates/2018/02/21/00aea98a-175d-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html

The premise of this op-ed is all over the shop. It’s almost like saying that being half-white gains you some, like, super secret brownie points or something.

Her article comes across as someone who is still struggling with identity yet has dressed it up and monetized for discussion.

I’m a black, not light, but not dark, skinned woman who was adopted by white parents. I’m blackity, black, black, but “white adjacent.” I grew up in a primarily white environment which makes navigation easier, but it never lets me believe I’m anything but black. I just know how, to navigate a PW Environment. THAT…

It’s the teacher’s reaction that is the real problem.

Anyone who fixes their mouth to tell another person how to live their life is projecting their insecurity on others, period.

This is the company that gave Rob Schneider his own show. Multiple seasons.

I had the same quote loaded up.

While this woman definitely did some bad shit and deserved to be locked up, I am concerned about her death. Prison is a notoriously terrible place for trans folks.

I was gonna post this too. She was a woman, and the reporting implies otherwise.

Garner was initially identified as a woman after her arrest, but her attorney confirmed she was born Morris Garner and had undergone sex reassignment surgery.