It saddened me to see so many people commenting in the other story that they don’t believe Takei’s accuser, even when they believe accusers in other cases.

It ends when an example is made and future members realize what is considered punishable behavior.

I like this piece a lot. I’d also differentiate between liberal identity politics (which are, I think, ultimately divisive and self-defeating precisely because they are not intersectional, boiling down complex human identities that incorporate race, class, gender, religion, and background into simple, misleading…

This is not the irrational derangement about Bernie Sanders I come to The Root for. This appears to instead be an empathic explanation of the definition of identity politics for both white people who are inherently capable of a POC’s perspective and progressive POC who are wary of nastiness on the left this discussion…

Is that... lego Richard Branson?

Yep. I was around for several commenting format changes to the AVClub, and thus didn’t believe the warnings of the coming Kinjapocalypse. Turns out, they were all correct: Kinja killed this community, but good.

i don’t know where else to put it, so i’ll put it here.

So, since a lot of people seem to have forgotten, Mark Regnerus is a Catholic fundamentalist asshole who published a “study” that purported to prove definitively that gay people were not good parents. It was a trash study, and did a lot of damage because at the time it gave anti-gay-marriage advocates an excuse to…

I meant “acceptable” as in “acceptable as a fictional narrative that realistically helps suspend reality” you numpty.

That entire passage is absolute bollocks. You can’t name a time Clinton changed her position because of her financial backing from banks because she already had the fucking policy positions they wanted. Why would she need to change?

Maybe they can get the guy who scored Worker and Parasite.

That’s upsetting. It isn’t just the scoring, it’s also most of the original songs. I have the CDs of Songs in the Key of Springfield and Go Simpsonic and they still get regular play on my iPod. He’s going to be tough to replace.

Wow. Fuck this site.

Is there a way to organize the comments so the newest ones show up on top? Can you get some kind of notice when a new comment has been posted?

Go fuck yourself with having to jump in with your ‘it’s all the same on both sides’ bullshit. One group has a history of slavery, endemic and systemic racism, and a system designed to work against them. The other is mad they can’t be racist anymore. In case you missed it, go fuck yourself.

That’s actually exactly what he said in then NYDN interview: that his top legislative priority would be to obtain the statutory power to break up the most enormous and powerful banks. The paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the country, a billionaire whose trust holdings would be directly threatened by a…

I like to think he actually didn’t want to seem racist, like a TSA agent “randomly selecting” an old lady instead of the brown guy everyone is side eying, and it backfired by becoming a Seinfeld episode.

Kind of precludes a Sumerian AC, eh?

Does it include the slaughter of thousands of native inhabitants concluded by banishing the remaining native population into reservations(which is clearly an euphemism)? Or do you just act like it’s your country all the way?