Lavender Threads’s Reviews > Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution > Status Update

Ah here's me wondering whether he would get to incorporation. Eventually. But leaving it out was on purpose because it's complex.

Okay I feel like an example that didn't require an incest mention could have been chosen

I realize it's a literary device but it's charming that the author thinks any originalists are still reading. (I mean maybe they had to read it for work or class and can't stop. But.)

Casual reminder not to ever be questioned by cops or prosecutors or any state agent without a lawyer

Getting a little hard to wade through the twitter tone.

Like, ammosexual, eyeroll—but then—"These people are willing to suffer the ongoing national tragedies of mass shootings, they’re willing to ignore the epidemics of suicides and violence against women, they’re willing to sacrifice the lives of schoolchildren"—painfully true

(I know, tone arguments are invalid wrt substance.)

Okay wow I just started this and I can already tell it's going to be fire (honorific) (rape mwntion in following quote)

"Conservatives are out here acting like the Constitution was etched by divine flame upon stone tablets, when in reality it was scrawled out over a sweaty summer by people making deals with actual monsters who were trying to protect their rights to rape the humans they held in bondage."