I would NEVER recommend something so legally ambiguous and clearly unethical. Which is why I’m sharing this widely. So you guys all know to never do such a thing. Ever. Because it would be bad. Make sure to reblog so others know not to ever do this very wrong thing. And definitely make sure you know what color the parking tickets in your city are. Maybe hold onto one for reference in case you ever worry that you might accidentally do this. Keep it in your car so you can look at it sometimes and say “It would be wrong to use this as a fake ticket to prevent getting a real ticket.”
the scene in men in black where will smith’s character thoroughly explained why he shot little suzie, a cardboard cut out of a small child holding advanced physics textbooks instead of the scary aliens all around her is an excellent allegory to racism. will smith’s character, a black man, has no doubt had to deal with various authority figures assuming he is the threat when context clues could easily explain away his behavior and with that backstory in mind, it is easy to see why his character identified with aliens simply existing in the world and explained away the supposed cause for concern by using the context clues provided. on the other end of the spectrum, the white characters who all elected to shoot the aliens on sight did so for no other reason then ‘they look like a threat’, ignoring the fact that a 7 year old child out in the middle of the street alone with advanced physics textbooks should raise more eyebrows than a tentacled creature with allergies. in this essay i will