Oh, look- someone has helpfully furnished a reply to your question that illustrates exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about. I mean, by that standard, none of us “actually knows whether Donald Trump is a racist,” but I don’t see anyone on the left contorting themselves this way to give him that benefit of the…

Based on my encounters with non-Jewish progressives, as a person who is both Jewish and progressive and had issues with the things that Ilhan Omar has tweeted and did find her language to be anti-Semitic (although I think it’s very likely that she didn’t fully realize that or know why it was a problem- something I do…

I have both Bombas and Darn Tough, and they’re both great. I also used to buy Chrome’s merino wool socks, which are articulated for right and left and super comfortable, but sorting laundry was just too much of a hassle, so I stopped getting them a couple of years ago. Despite that, and despite my best intentions to…

I have both Bombas and Darn Tough, and they’re both great. I also used to buy Chrome’s merino wool socks, which are…

I mean, at a bare minimum, wouldn’t you wonder why the hell your parents were suddenly insisting that you take photos wearing water polo gear or pretending to be on a crew team? Come the eff on.

I mean, these two incidents, as well as this one and this one, were not committed by neo-Nazis. I think they’re also responsible for a chunk of these incidents (such as the accosting of a famous Jewish philosopher by a group of gilets jaunes telling him to “go back to Israel,” and probably the cemetery vandalism we’ve…

This. I live in Paris, and while on a day to day basis, I haven’t had any issues, I also don’t appear visibly Jewish (don’t wear a yarmulke, don’t wear any jewelry that would identify me as Jewish, don’t have an overtly Jewish-sounding name). Some of this is by deliberate choice on my part, to avoid potential…

I’m a lesbian and attend a Conservative shul. When I showed back up at services with my new wife (I had been posted overseas for a while), my rabbi was pleased as punch and basically high fived me in the middle of the Torah service when he found out that she’s also Jewish. The people in our congregation have been…

I was going to say, the judge is a pedophile. Count on it.

He knew exactly what he was doing. I’d bet money that he was looking to do something even more nefarious to this poor woman, and he was fully expecting that when he impounded her car, she’d take him up on the offer of a ride because of the weather. When she called his bluff and opted to walk, he got enraged and made…

This is sure to end well. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the diplomats being told to stay where they are and potentially being put in harm’s way by their boss haven’t been paid in weeks. Really great work all around, team.

Oh, I completely agree, and you’re absolutely right- there’s often this tenor of, “Well, you should be glad we’re not calling you ‘kike’ or burning a cross on your lawn- push us a little further and see if we still try and help you out.” It’s really messed up and really common. I don’t understand at all why otherwise…

... it’s had me worried that this “yeah, but...” attitude towards the organizers’complicity in anti-Semitism is commonplace.

Well, I am a big old lesbian, so the joke was on them, I guess.

So out of curiosity, do you spend as much time protesting the existence of Pakistan (and/or the policies of its government) as you do Israel? If this were a story about Alice Walker or another author writing rambling, bigoted screeds about “Pakis” and the like, would you be going out of your way to post here with a…

Don’t do it unless the person to whom you’re referring specifically identifies that way and has given you permission to refer to them that way. I will absolutely fight anyone who tries calling me “queer,” and I know a lot of LGBT people who feel the same way. It’s a slur that plenty of us either haven’t reclaimed or…

Well said. I read his justifications, if you can even call them that, and almost sprained something, I was rolling my eyes so hard. It must be awfully fucking nice to be straight, is all I can say.

There is that, but still, there’s bad taste and there’s... this.

I know this isn’t the larger point here, but good God, that is an ugly, badly-done tattoo. It looks like she went to some scratcher operating out of his kitchen. Although I suppose being stuck with that for life is a pretty fitting bit of justice, considering.

All I can look at is her ghostly white skin. Is that just powder? The result of hibernating inside her place in Georgetown because she can’t go out in public without being heckled? Is she fading away before our very eyes?

ESTA is allowed for “business travel” in the sense that you can use it to attend business meetings. You cannot use it to do any kind of paid work, which would include contracted artwork- if Wizards of the Coast was paying these guys, and I assume they were, then they put their employees into this situation. And I’d…