The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.
The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression” by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
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I really don’t know how you can even make the first step towards preventing school shootings without making it like some kind of prison. I gotta be honest, “visitors have to pass security” doesn’t really strike me as all that bad.
There’s a million other problems with schools becoming policed, school to prison, the mistreatment and outright abuse of special education / neurodivergent, etc, children… But “having security”, in the sense of a checkpoint and all that, in this world, doesn’t sound all that bad to me.
School shootings aren’t a inevitability. They are a product of a diseased society.
Have more teachers and smaller classes so teachers can see when a student was getting bullied or having issues at home and get them help.
100% agree.
I don’t think “smaller class sizes” is really gonna get quite there. I gotta be honest.
Even if we assumed that solved the 90% of student-on-student violence (idk, pulled that number completely out of my ass) there are still school shooters who are visitors. And that’s what this post is about, specifically - making visitors basically go through security. There are a million things you don’t want in schools besides weapons for students to use on each other. I don’t see the problem with this one idea, very specifically.