When you say "miserable and self-pitying," surely you're referring to white men like you with raging persecution complexes? Yes? Good. Just checking.

As a straight white man, thank you for acknowledging our burden.

"Institutional racism" describes a particular kind of covert racism. It's not about trying to make it seem more important than overt racism, it's just a useful term for identifying systematic discrimination.

Experiencing racism is exhausting.

This story is getting robust discussion on many sites. I was wondering if any of the Gawker sites would mention it. I find the construct of racial politics to be troubling and a double bind. Full disclosure: I am African American female. We (black folks) can notice racism, but we can't talk about it because we…

Ms. Gibney wrote this article/narrative on Gawker that gives a little more detail to what happened, and is really excellent reading. The comments section...not so much.

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure bipolar people get pregnant all the time. There must be a precedent for managing both conditions that doesn't involve involuntary surgery and stealing fetuses.

Britain isn't a full member of the EU? Do go on.

I think we'd need more details for sure before we can make judgements on this, but on the face of it, it sounds horrific. As someone who works for social services in another region of the UK I always feel so shocked and ashamed when I hear of massive failings.

This is just terrible.... I know this is an unpopular opinion, but shit like this is exactly why I think that when it comes to pregnancy, mom should always be the priority, without exception.

It does not excuse the British authoirites from not notifying the family, not placing the girl in their care nor does it excuse plans to put the girl in adoption with a (white) British family.

That they're claiming they can adopt the baby out because it's a British citizen because they forced birth via c-section is probably the most disgusting part of this entire thing. There was five weeks between her being committed and the forced c-section, more than enough time to contact her family and return her to…

Oh god! If they knew how many severe panic attacks I had while pregnant because I was off my bipolar meds (for 1) birth defects and for 2) I kept throwing them up anyway) they probably would have just given me an abortion. That is the most insane and horrifying thing I've ever heard!

...Doug left out another critical piece to the story: she did it while seriously injured herself. o.0 According to the AP story, she suffered such a bad chest injury, she couldn't whistle (thinking probably punctured lungs).

Why wonder? If she could, she would have. Since she didn't, she couldn't. As for the specifics of why, it can't have been pleasant: maybe the kid was pinned down by wreckage, maybe impaled, who knows? I wouldn't question the mother's level of care here.

Fuck, I just posted this on the racist sexist uncle article on Gawker. Well:

TEAM ALL DELICIOUS FOOD IS THE BEST TEAM.

i already did most of my shopping. got my mom: