I live in an apartment almost entirely lined with books, and I have this same problem. I was talking about it with my roommate, saying ““Given that I read a page of the OED every fucking day, you’d think I’ve have gotten around to spending half an hour to fully memorize the pronunciation guide symbols by now.” “Yeah,…

Did he really? Excellent. Unlike Hannity, Carlson is not a complete idiot, so maybe he will finally turn on the Cheeto once he comes completely unglued.

Except most of them don’t know about it, because Fox.

A lot of white guys are complaining about how they feel that they now have to watch what they say all the time. Which just proves that white guys are the real whiny snowflakes, because women and people of color have always had to watch what they say all the time, whereas white dudes can just say whatever the fuck they…

I always check washers, dryers, dishwashers and ovens for cats. It’s so reflexive at this point that I do it in places where there are no cats.

She’s not being mocked for not knowing how to pronounce it, so much as she’s being mocked for being a Pulitzer-winning television critic who was still questioning it even after hearing it pronounced correctly on television.

Rue was never blond and blue-eyed anywhere but in the heads of white readers who ignored the fact that she was described as dark-skinned in the books. That was what made that whole dust-up even more outrageous, that her character was clearly described as black in the books and they were still offended.

How much you want to bet that the only black man in the cabinet will be the only one that is actually made to pay back the money he stole from the public purse?

White trash doesn’t have much power coming from black people, since a defining characteristic of the sort of white trash that are actually trash is that they don’t care what black people think.

Portland’s trying, in that there’s at least been some effort to make reparations to people affected by redlining, racist police, and gentrification. But while the city itself is full of well-meaning but clueless racists, it’s surrounded by deliberate racists.

Yeah, my ONE black neighbor in Portland, upon hearing that I was from DC, said, “oh, so that’s why you started talking to me.” I was like, “huh?” She said that while the white Portlanders she’d met in the few months she’d been there had seemed friendly, none of them had initiated a conversation with her. This…

No, but I’ll bet a fairly large number of them have something potentially embarrassing in the trove of RNC emails that the Russians hacked, but did not release.

The other colors used to be the norm, with orange being more rare. But the Dutch, who were among the most prolific carrot farmers in Europe, started cultivating the orange ones as tribute to William of Orange, and the others were no longer mass produced.

When I was a teenager, I was playing golf with a cousin who was just as bad as I was. His slice knocked a squirrel out of a tree. The poor thing staggered across the fairway only to get hit again by my worm burner. We were laughing so hard we had to let the people behind us just play through.

“Saying that it is generally judged more harshly in the black community does not equal saying that white people don’t have a problem with it.”

Saying that it is generally judged more harshly in the black community does not equal saying that white people don’t have a problem with it. Black men generally will go further in their attempts to hide any homosexual tendencies because of various cultural factors, in particular their emasculation at the hands of…

He once explained the plot of Dune to a fan using emojis. And when I tweeted to him that I despised emojis yet still sent that to all my friends, he absolutely loved it.

I do closed captioning for a living, and had to transcribe that dashcam footage. I was standing there with tears running down my face, typing every “sir” Castile’s girlfriend kept saying, even as he was dying beside her.

That’s how my former roommate taught it at her Waldorf high school. When they did the section on Africa, the students built a big topographical map first, and then started overlaying tribal boundaries, and then modern national boundaries, which really helped them understand colonialism.

I really want this to be great, both because I love the book and because representation matters. But goddammit, every time I see a picture, the costume/hair/makeup/production design makes me cringe a bit.