There are and a shameful number of legislators would like to keep it that way because their wealthy overlords said so. But the fact that no one would touch their penises otherwise is another strong incentive. 

Man fuck everything about this story. Grown, actually adult men from the party that rails against sex work, blocks welfare safety nets for teenagers, free tuition, student loan forgiveness, axes housing for displaced youth etc; battered “tuition” for sex with a 17-18 year old girl. Yet she’s the one who endangered…

Same with “BIPOC”. There is a worthwhile conversation to be had that a people should be able to name themselves. Identity and how we present ourselves changes with time. But, the idea that groups of people voted based on what sociology majors called them in essays instead of economic, health, foreign, taxation or…

The worst thing about the resistance is the admission of all manner of forgotten has beens back into the public domain. This guy is all flash and no substance. He has no idea what he is talking about. Faculty lounges are hardly “woke” and a sizeable portion of the “anti-woke” fuckery actually arose from faculty…

Right? No reasonable person could see that exchange and come out thinking Kennedy is the better leader. And yet. 

Exactly. He is dripping with condescension. That is the smugness of a man who believes in his absolute rightness and is too cowardly to allow any change in his world view. 

John Kennedy is the perfect encapsulation of every bad faith white guy who “innocently” asks why a problem is racist or sexist. They don’t want an answer. The question is designed to deny oppression exists. Misogynoir is also crucial to Kennedy assuming Stacey Abrams would not be prepared to school him. After all she…

Indefensible rationalizations abound. 

Thank you! It’s insane in these comments. The standard shouldn’t be you have to be perfectly obedient not to get shot by the police. We should expect better appropriate force response instincts from our police than from teenage girls wielding knives. We should train police so that their instinct is to use the minimum…

Wish people were also empathetic to the girl instead of thinking she got what was coming. She approached the first girl with a knife, pushed her down and did not stab her. She approached the other girl with a knife and swung. But she was not a terrorist or a cartel killer trained to execute people with knives. She was…

Yes families and communities can be fucked up. What we don’t need is the police making fucked up situations worse. 

Assuming a bullet and a knife hit the same spot, you are more likely to survive the knife than the bullet.

I watched the video so please don’t “explain” to me. Multiple cops responded, they can multi task and disband the other fighters. The standard should be that nobody dies in this scenario. British police who are largely unarmed manage to do this all the time with knifers being their biggest problem. Tasers, charging at…

Makhia was right over the other girl. He could have killed them both. Isn’t police training that you don’t shoot when the unarmed civilian is also within the line of shot? The other girl could have survived the knife. Makhia was never going to survive 4 gunshots to her core. The standard should be nobody gets killed.…

Agree that cop is the endpoint in the series of issues that led to the tragedy here. But UK police disarm knife attackers and manage not to kill them. Also their knife attackers are usually teenagers like Makhia. There was no attempt to use a taser or to separate the girls. A moment taken to de-escalate and attempt to…

Someone who came to her house to attack her in her own home. None of these people deserved to die. We should expect police to be able to protect both sides. 

Sigh. This is another example of police making a bad situation worse. Those girls were at her house and she clearly felt threatened enough to call the police on them. White men get to claim stand your grounds laws on home invaders unarmed and armed. Why shouldn’t this apply to Makhia? What should be a conversation…

Absolutely the police department denounced and disowned him. That was key to divorcing him from the noble officer just doing his job image.

I’m sure Kendall Jenner and Pepsi can also be counted on to make this about soda cans.

Indeed. This country loves to use Black trauma to “heal” itself. It’s time America stopped “living up to its ideals” at the the cost of Black bodies.