anarcho-animeism:

i’d love to be able to say, “oh, they’re just kids, they don’t need to be 100% radical whatever all the time.” except that a) they’ve built a mass movement and b) made specific policy demands. 

these demands are resoundingly backwards – expanding police presence on campus, opening up police access to medical records and criminalizing disabled bodies, asserting the need for militarized police forces – and now have mass support from an uncritical base that’s backing them on the grounds that they’re being made by students. the amount of facebook posts i’ve had to crawl between praising their ability to ‘speak truth to power’ is astonishing; sure, they’ve stood up to the (also reactionary) NRA and rightist senators, but that alone does not a platform make.

Take actually kids running the movement aren’t for any of those things, it was a group of 10 students who wrote the “manifesto” for a news outlet.