What about SarahMC's comment was whitesplaining?

Yeah she's being really closed minded about the nice parts of the Westboro Baptist Church and men who think women ought to obey men.

Well if they were looking for cheap labor then you make a good point: the fact that the result was breathtakingly racist just isn't a big deal.

Do the underlying racial tones disappear if the decision wasn't a conscious one?

If you're not burning a cross on someone's lawn or enforcing apartheid with your machine gun you can't be a racist duh. You're racist against white people for saying that white people are racist duh.

Less about intentionally hiring black people to be the waiters at your wedding, more about how the racial disparity of servers/served absolutely brings into stark focus how fucked up it is to have nostalgia for eras gone by (that were defined by legal racism)?

I don't understand what this means.

That's the logic of a dude who fires his secretary because she won't suck his dick.

There are all kinds of cycles, like the one where people die.

Yeah I agree with you. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to come up with effective discipline strategies that don't involve violence.

Oh, no, I didn't mean because of the way the book reads! Not at all, sorry if I implied that.

@ Ari Schwartz:

Wait, Jeff Goldblum really defeated alien invaders by writing a computer program?!?!?!?!?!

To everyone who's pointing out that you or your friends or whatever didn't know the gender of the author of GTFTS: Part of the reason you didn't know or pay attention to the gender, is that the gender of the author is male. If a woman wrote it, her gender would be unavoidable. Female is the marked gender. That's one…

Yes, I agree.

I'm pretty sure that Chinese culture existed before Communism.

I think the fact that they're making up their ranks through human sacrifice might come back as the season goes on. The Fat One wasn't interested in being a monk—they needed him to have a backstory, a legitimate and material reason to want to stay head-ed and human rather than converting to the monks' order, in order…

I was actually about to comment on this exact thing. I hate pictures of bugs.

Well played. I understand now that your experience and anecdotal evidence refute everything we know about society and systemic injustice. I concede the point entirely.

Good for your mom. Badass!