You know, it is possible to be extremely liberal without buying into whatever bullshit acceptance/let's all get along/hippie box you're trying to shove other people into. It doesn't make you a hypocrite to actually have convictions and believe in them.

The beginning was the end.

As was stated in the article (the thing with the squiggly lines up above), there's a difference between keeping reminders of our racist past so as not to whitewash history (though I'd say that is still a fraught subject) and creating new objects that resemble these stereotypes, like the 'fun' golliwog patterns above.

you're gross

I know this will sound condescending, but societal expectations and internalized standards of beauty will always affect the way we think of our bodies, no matter how much we think it's what 'we' want.

So this is it then? We can stop taking psychiatry seriously now right?

It's because i never learned to read.

Do you have a point besides "I think black people are inferior to whites"?

lol, I'm actually white, sorry to take away your chance to condescend to a black person about his experience with racism though!

Of course, that's why we refuse to have a criminal justice system in this country.

Yeah you're right, hundreds of years of systematic oppression including slavery, lynchings, redlining, and minstrel shows is totally equal to that one time some dude called you a cracker on the bus.

Because her being a "white girl", and the associated privilege, is the source of her ignorance on this subject.

I always want to be sympathetic to these kinds of arguments, because you'd have to be blind to not notice the perverse influences of institutional sexism that pervades most areas of society, but I just don't see it when it comes to literary fiction (though, as I'm saying, maybe I've just got a blindspot here,…

That's right, feminism is about everyone getting along and never criticizing and always being well behaved.

That's cool, just try not to laugh too loud in public about your 'fucking hilarious' paper bag around us poors. We'll just be confused and too busy mocking things we don't understand like people who throw away a week's worth of wages to prove how 'enlightened' they are.

It's always good to remember that ALL people who go to business school are the worst.

If you're not ready to criticize most advertising, you should really try to hurry up whatever is taking that so long.

The thing is, even if we can even if we're able to somehow peel back all the layers of consent, exploitation, abuse, etc. and find ourselves with a woman who has totally of her own volition entered into sex work, enjoys herself and is able to support herself with that income, why should we respect that choice? I'm…

What does this question even mean? I think humans who speak English should be able to judge what another's view of 'desperation' is. Especially since the author never even claims that she was desperate, just that she didn't want to go back home.