#WalkUpNotOut is victim blaming of the worst sort. It seeks to deflect away from the problem of easy access to semi-automatic weapons.
I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/nikol...
Compelling testimony about the problems of stigmatizing “troubled” kids or kids facing mental illness & how #WalkUpNotOut just slaps a bandaid on the need for genuine mental health care (and, yes, #GunReformNow)
Here’s my problem with #WalkUpNotOut - fandomsandfeminism: The premise of #WalkUpNotOut is that if kids... https://tmblr.co/Zt_RAy2WMHKSH
It would have been great if more kids were friends with me (or at least not as horrible to me) as an awkward middle-schooler.
It would have been gross if that was just to placate me enough to keep me from someday hurting them.
#WalkUpNotOut is not the answer some think it is.
2) I get the sentiment at face-value when people are posting #walkupnotout. Most of the people causing these shootings are people who are neglected/shunned/abused by family/society. Interacting with them is definitely something we want to do.
Alright, it's storytime with Celest and my thoughts about #walkupnotout. It's gonna be a chain of tweets, so bear with me. I've got a lot on my mind to speak up on, and it's not necessarily laid out in a particular order.
I have a LOT of shit to say about #walkupnotout, but I'm going to need access to a keyboard for the novel that awaits.
Going up and making friends with lonely kids is a worthy act and a laudable goal.
Requiring kids to do this on the basis that it'll make everyone safer is ridiculous and stacks victim-blaming on top of naive hopefulness.
#walkupnotout #itsbad #stopit
I dislike #WalkUpNotOut because this framing as either/or is not helpful & distorts dynamics in exactly the same tone deaf way #AllLivesMatter did. NOPE!
