Would there be high school walkouts today if Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a black High School?

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Is the right to protest itself a function of privilege? These kids raise good questions. Would there be massive high school walkouts across the country today if Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS was a predominately black inner-city school in Philly? In a neighborhood where there’s nothing special at all about gun violence?

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Enough is enough: it’s time for America to adopt hate speech laws

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The facts are clear: freedom has nothing to do with America’s narrow conception of “free speech.” According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics: U.S. residents experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015. There was no statistically significant change in the annual rate of violent hate crime victimization from 2004 to 2015 (about 0.7

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Profiles in Courage: The Week in Snark, 2/24/18

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Going to try something, inspired by S&R co-founder Mike Sheehan’s late great Nota Bene feature. Trump: Florida school officer “didn’t have the courage.” And if there’s anything Cadet Bonespurs knows about, it’s courage. Mike Pence won’t be alone in a room with a woman. Because if he was he’d grab ’em by the pussy. Or … something else… Scientists have created human-sheep hybrids.

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Why won’t the GOP act on gun violence? Here’s a BIG reason nobody talks about.

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It isn’t just NRA money. Congressional Republicans don’t act because their families aren’t at risk. Did you see this? ‘WTF’: Twitter furious as Florida lawmakers declare porn a ‘health risk’ but block assault rifle ban The vote comes less than a week after the devastating shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school left 17 people dead Less than a week

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