commanderboshtette:

badgyal-k:

cocoacallalily:

nabyss:

meanmisscharles:

phoenix-ace:

redmensch:

this student walk out against school shootings is intriguing because it will create a generation of teens with mass strike experience. that has never happened before and could maybe have implications for how they go on to think about politics in terms of mass action

Its happened before, they just werent the right complexion, so they were criminalized, locked up and demonized.

People just rewrite history and facts like some of us aren’t paying attention…

☝☝☝☝ Do not erase us to prop your movement.

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Wowwwww lmao

this is exactly what i’ve been talking about… like nevermind even going back to civil rights movement or the vietnam war or iraq or any of the other well known eras of mass student protests & walkouts – in the past decade this has been happening. it’s not distant memory, and yet somehow it’s ‘never been done before’ and ppl like oprah and obama are out here making claims that it ~hasn’t happened since selma~, as though they haven’t spent the last 6+ years degrading and promoting the use of tear gas and “rubber” bullets against the teens protesting. and i swear it’s like the second there was an opportunity to deracialize “stop killing us,” everyone jumped on it. 

tl;dr the only way “that has never happened before” could ever be true is if you’re ignoring all of world history