Here’s Smith’s tweet:

It’s really worth mentioning that the behavior at the border is significantly more intimidating and aggressive than what you see coming in by air, and I think the difference is that there are so many more witnesses and business interests in an airport.

I’m a European that has travelled to the US multiple times in the past. I love New York. My wife and I had our honeymoon in the US, even our wedding photo’s were taken in New York.

Time to start overnighting your phone to yourself if you intend to cross the border, keep a backup burner for texting/calling people in the interim.

Likely right.

Well, I’m sure he stood for the anthem, so there’s no problem here.

Each line snorted represents a white line in the flag. It’s probably the most patriotic thing he could do.

Seems disrespectful toward veterans and the flag, tbh.

I was thinking, how hard is it to not make a racist ad?? But judging from the number of times Dove has “missed the mark” and created tone-deaf, problematic ads, even when they *claim* to support diversity, I guess it’s pretty fucking hard.

If no harm is intended, how come “mistakes” like these never happen in reverse? Why doesn’t the redhead turn into a black woman too if all they want to do is show their product works on everyone? Anyways why wouldn’t it work for everyone, it’s soap.

As someone who’s in marketing, I echo your statement.

I worked in advertising (I no longer do because it’s evil and adds nothing of value to the world but I digress), and an ad like that by a huge company like Dove (or the parent company Unilever) goes through a LOT of people. This was not a handful of tone deaf idiots, this was a lot of tone deaf idiots. Baffles the…

My mother is super Christian, and none of her kids recited or stood for the pledge since she saw it as idolatry.

Plus, I might add, she will NO DOUBT get paid for her troubles at the end of this. Thanks again White Folks!! Your flag humping is really working miracles!!

Unless she did this at an assembly in front of the school the teacher is an asshole because he/she would have had to turn the student in. Is it the 1950s again. WTF.

India is fucking awesome and braver than I would’ve been at her age. The fact that they tried to expel herfor sitting is the whole reason she’s sitting.

We settled this freaking 70+ years ago - you can’t expel students for not saying the pledge or otherwise acknowledging the flag(West Virginia v. Barnette) . You can’t expel or threaten students for taking peaceful, non-disruptive of class purpose/learning protests like silent actions/arm bands (Tinker v. Des Moines).…

These people have been wanting call these babies the nword for so long they can’t contain it anymore. She was arrested for being black , doubt anyone noticed nonblack students sitting for the pledge.

Cool story.

why is everything so stupid now? i know things have always been stupid but it seems like every day brings with it the stupidest thing ever.