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Playing, a luxury of childhood, is becoming unmistakably intertwined with white privilege. http://t.co/4N4cnIZ1et pic.twitter.com/tAeUIdF1GN
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 9, 2015
OK, our curiosity has gotten the better of us. We’ll bite:
At the center of the complex is a small community pool to which I’m a member and at which many of the complex’s kids spend a good bit of their summers. It’s an easy walk from my townhouse, and the boys will be old enough this summer that I anticipate sending them down the street to the pool ahead of or even without me sometimes, letting them experience another summertime pleasure that I remember from my youth at the pool near my home. In contemplating this summer plan, I’m not at all concerned that they will be treated as part of a dangerous youthful mob, will have guns drawn on them by overreacting police officers.
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I, like my sons today, did these sorts of things as a young person: played with toy guns, got out of hand at the pool sometimes, acted like a boy. Being a kid is (or should be) one of our society’s most privileged positions, and there are few privileges of childhood more meaningful than the opportunity to play without worries, to enjoy a summer day on its own relaxed terms. This childhood luxury is becoming painfully, unmistakably intertwined with white privilege.
And Talking Points Memo is becoming painfully, unmistakably intertwined with B.S.
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/608357649189609474
Glory days. Right, TPM?
hahahahahahaha https://t.co/MNL6uaEtUV
— Joe Cunningham (@JoePCunningham) June 9, 2015
@TPM Wat?
— Shane Styles (@shaner5000) June 9, 2015
Trash like this is why people laugh at you, @TPM.
https://t.co/lCJwwe1mrL— Adam (@gpia7r) June 9, 2015
@TPM Oh good grief. You're over the top.
— Liz Steinkamp (@lizreads) June 9, 2015
Has the world gone #FullMcIntosh? WTF is this crap? https://t.co/7IUg1aHn2L
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) June 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/laurakfillault/status/608357665371234304
They do now! Thanks, TPM!
.@TPM Sometimes, you don't even need to comment. The pure idiocy speaks for itself. This is one of those times. https://t.co/UaHI1WQT7e
— BonkPolitics (@BonkPolitics) June 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/MarkMMcClain/status/608358309150773248
"Playing is white privilege." Pack it up humanity. We had a good run, but we're done now.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) June 9, 2015
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