No. Funnily enough, the store didn't call the police. They called my parents. That's white privilege for you.

Teenagers shoplift. I shoplifted as a teen but I'm white so the one time I was caught, it was assumed I was a good kid who made a mistake. But when a black teen does it, he deserves the death penalty apparently.

It's a common tactic for right wingers to sock as women or POC on social media because they think "SJWs" won't call someone out for saying stupid shit unless they're a white cishet man. It's no surprise that they project and assume others are doing the same.

There's been a trend on the left of being too gentle to commit any kind of civil disobedience. Although I can see the value of peaceful protesting, civil disobedience is an important tool as well. Our reluctance to embrace it has only helped the right's narrative that any property damage that occurs in protests…

I'm actually torn on what I think about the property destruction. On the one hand, it makes the peaceful protestors look bad and it's not the local small business owners that are the problem.

I shoplifted and smoked pot when I was a teenager and I was still considered a good kid. Nobody has ever used the word thug to describe me. Obviously I'm white.

Perfect excuse for moving to Canada!

Remember, you can dismiss that asshole.

From the way the governor was speaking in the days leading up to this, it seem like it was a foregone conclusion that Wilson wouldn't be indicted.

His statement that Wilson "followed training and the law" is really creepy. It's like he's admitting that they train police to shoot unarmed black people.

With Charles Manson and Darren Wilson off the market, what hope does a single gal have to meet Mr. Right?!! FOREVER ALONE.

It did seem to spring up out of nowhere didn't it?

That doesn't surprise me at all.

I am so in. I never thought I'd leave atheism behind and join a religion, but it's worth it.

There's a huge scientology temple in St Paul not far from the capital. It's bigger and fancier than any megachurch I've ever seen. And yet I've spent most of my 34 years in the Twin Cities and have never met a single scientologist. I've never seen anyone go and in or out of the temple either. Who the fuck goes…

The kids who organized the protest might not run in the same social circles as the rapist, his victims, and the bullies. It's very possible they did not hear about this until it started becoming a news story.

I don't like crafting. Anyone up for a feminist board game group?

They would probably think "acronyms are gay" is the wittiest insult ever.

I just made the same point! I've now chosen to embrace my advanced age and feel perfectly comfortable criticizing teen slang on the basis of grammar and sentence structure.