Home of an Airheaded Little Shit

Coordinator! Lance AU

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

But the demographic most likely to be a domestic terrorist, the mass shooters, the ones that find diverse places and murder people... Are white men. When I go to the store, to church, to work, to the movies, to school, the odds that the person who will walk in and decide to Let Fly is a white man! That's something we have to keep in our minds every day!

He works at Meijer Grocery Store, and his position is mainly to corral the shopping carts among other things. A white man pulled a gun on him the other day.

My friend was going to take his cart in the parking lot. He never touched the man's cart or him. While in the guys vicinity, he simply flopped over in the opposite direction in a poorly received joke, as if bumping into something. The white guy flashed his gun at him and took it out, essentially threatening my friends life because he didn't understand what he was doing.

White male paranoia, anger, and anxiety is normalized in this country even if the result is unwarranted violence. The cops, store managers, his coworkers, HR, and even strangers all agreed it was all agreed it was unnecessary escalation. Yet they also placated the white man, who claimed he was protecting his children, and he saw a large man in a hoodie (it was rainy/windy that day) move strange and assumed mal intent.

This is The Boy From Venus #4! Ty for reading. :D

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Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea