I can't with Fournier.pic.twitter.com/WZ35GPs0nY
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Cis straight white men have done so with laws and in constitutions, with shackles and using nooses.
No one is running away from anything in today's protest. They live in a country where Pence is VP. They cannot run away from his policies.
In short, Fournier, and people who share views like him, are both ignorant of the reality of history and of the reality of today.
Oops: I meant "willful ignorance," not "willful ignore" in that tweet up there in the thread. Apologies!
Also to suggest people walking out haven't heard Pence's opinion plenty of times. They're walking because they know his record.
Yes, not like he wasn't Indiana's despotic governor and has a congressional record.
Many students there from said state....
In one sense, all of them.
Also, fuck him, they’re not avoiding his ideas, they’re protesting them.
I feel sorry for these grads and those at Bethune Cookman who spent the last four years working to get an education, to learn critical
Thinking only to have the culmination of it be lectured to by Pence & DeVos, two people who are the antithesis of what higher ed fosters
I want my kids to show this much strength to protest. Not sit there & passively watch
FYI Pence is gay and was the neighbor in American Beauty
Like with the Indiana RFRA bill Pence signed, basically allowing bigoted people to legally shield themselves from exposure to LGBTQ people.
Amen. Been this way since the beginning of time, and will continue on for years to come.
and 'what they don't like' is always 'what doesn't help secure their power.' Understand.
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