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Please stop.

LOL I am sick of the these low key Nazi assholes that think we are so stupid that we don’t know what they having been doing.  We need to purge the country of them! Scare them back into hiding.

I don’t know. This country was started by racist puritanical assholes and it looks like we’ll always be dealing with those issues. Hundreds of years of slavery and lynchings and murders and burned churches (Hell, burned towns) and Jim Crow and white flight and voter suppression and cop killings and the list goes on…

Wouldn’t something like a meet & greet with all different kinda folks be more likely to help students feel like they can fit in with a diverse world? Or just maybe talk to people different than you in your everyday campus life?

I’m the right complexion to go to this and spy. But I am also probably the wrong temperament. It’s been my eye experience that when my fellow white people get on a white feelings roll, they do not appreciate someone rolling their eyes, sighing, and muttering “what the actual fuck? is this person serious? ” under…

I just don’t get it.. why is it so difficult to just treat EVERYONE the way they want to be treated. Why is so difficult to understand to treat everyone with basic respect and decency regardless of colour/race/gender? I mean I don’t understand why a class needs to be taught.

I think the midterms are going to be an incredibly important marker for how things move forward. My fear, and I think the most likely outcome, is that nothing has changes since the last election, and everyone who voted for Trump and clutched their pearls at his actions for the last two years.... will continue to vote…

You don’t understand. They voted for Obama twice. Why isn’t that enough for you people? 

White folks really need to stop getting the idea that they are the best allies ever, because they seem to forget being an ally also means being vigorously and repeatedly challenged, questioned and not trusted. And there are no fucking headpats, cookies or chin rubbings.

I think you seriously underestimate the hatred and violence that white people are capable of, especially when challenged.

We’ve all had that thought a time or two.

Read the letter King wrote while he was sitting in these people’s jail. There is no pattern to look for. It’s all people. No depersonalized “one step forward, one step back” theory. It’s people who choose to combat racism and people who don’t. Generations of people who choose to push back and generations of people who…

Wow. I didn’t see that piece when it went up. Good to know. I’m never reading anything he writes again. I’m gonna call it my “Philip Roth Rule”: you can be a skilled writer with important things to say, but if you’re a howling misogynist, I’m going to give my time and money to OTHER skilled writers with important…

God beauty standards are just bonkers. ‘Have less of a face’ - 🙄

Yeah, like hiding your face makes it ‘smaller’ (i.e. more desirable) and makes your eyes bigger. It’s a thing with the fashion/sickness masks, too.

Yeah I just asked my 16 year old sister (on snapchat of course) and she said something along the lines of ‘you dont wanna get automatically tagged in a photo you look bad in but your friend put up because she looks good’ but she also said that she doesn’t do it anymore because it’s dumb, she just sucks it up and…

Yep, my 16 year old sister confirmed that this is because they are hyper aware of their online presence and want to be in control of it. It’s also a signal to your friends not to tag you either, which I get but...why are you posing for a picture in the first place? Why not just decline the photographer or turn your…

Yeah, trying for coquettish and not getting there, is my take.