People Who Say "Walk Up, Not Walk Out" Just Don't Get It!
Surely, you've seen Facebook posts that say that instead of protesting and "missing out on your education," how about at recess time, you just walk up to a student that looks lonely and start talking to them. #WalkUpNotWalkOut.
Really now? We're gonna stop school shootings by just saying hi to someone? How silly. Yes, we should be nice and civil to each other, but to say Walk Up Not Walk Out is dismissive of the fact that since Sandy Hook, 3,500 plus people have needlessly died in mass shootings and our politicians haven't done anything to prevent further shootings.
It's a farce because these same people are the same people who say "we should focus on mental health instead of taking away my God-given right to mow down someone with a machine gun" and yet continually vote for politicians who cut further and further from mental health funding.
It's condescending because these people are the same people who say that teenagers need to grow up, but now want them to be silent because they're teenagers.
It's hypocritical because the same people who say we should be nice to each other are the same people who think its okay to have a President who does not follow the Golden Rule but rather follows his own rules.
And it's implicit victim blaming because it suggests that maybe if those 17 dead kids in Parkland just simply talked to Nikolas Cruz, who was known for having behavioral problems and spent time at a school for children with emotional or learning abilities, then perhaps those 17 kids wouldn't be dead.
If only it was so simple to prevent school shootings just by saying hi to someone who may look lonely.
Here's my advice to those who would rather see the teenagers shut up instead of standing up for their lives: "Don't criticize what you can't understand/ Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command/ Your old road is rapidly aging/ Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand/ For the times they are a-changing." - Bob Dylan
Really now? We're gonna stop school shootings by just saying hi to someone? How silly. Yes, we should be nice and civil to each other, but to say Walk Up Not Walk Out is dismissive of the fact that since Sandy Hook, 3,500 plus people have needlessly died in mass shootings and our politicians haven't done anything to prevent further shootings.
It's a farce because these same people are the same people who say "we should focus on mental health instead of taking away my God-given right to mow down someone with a machine gun" and yet continually vote for politicians who cut further and further from mental health funding.
It's condescending because these people are the same people who say that teenagers need to grow up, but now want them to be silent because they're teenagers.
It's hypocritical because the same people who say we should be nice to each other are the same people who think its okay to have a President who does not follow the Golden Rule but rather follows his own rules.
And it's implicit victim blaming because it suggests that maybe if those 17 dead kids in Parkland just simply talked to Nikolas Cruz, who was known for having behavioral problems and spent time at a school for children with emotional or learning abilities, then perhaps those 17 kids wouldn't be dead.
If only it was so simple to prevent school shootings just by saying hi to someone who may look lonely.
Here's my advice to those who would rather see the teenagers shut up instead of standing up for their lives: "Don't criticize what you can't understand/ Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command/ Your old road is rapidly aging/ Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand/ For the times they are a-changing." - Bob Dylan
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