I should hope so - I’d be very much unwelcome here if that were the case.

Bruce’s status as “that guy your dad loves” often obscures how on-point he’s been about social justice issues, and for how long. From donating to the striking British miners in the 1980s, to writing a song about Amadou Diallo, an unarmed black man shot by the NYPD, back in 2000, to the lyrics of “Born in the USA” (and…

Who was the Mensa member who decided to do this David Bowie tribute, when they could have had Adam fucking Lambert (who performed a Bowie medley on his season’s American Idol tour) instead?

Gosh, it’s like watching a cat who. just. can’t. resist. that. laser pointer.

Whoa, what a good impression of what one of those commenters would say!

Jet fuel can’t melt dank memes.

Looking forward to the wave of hypercritical amateur enthusiasts/former dancers who always show up to ballet posts. It’s like the weirdest, most intense commenter subgroup I never would have predicted.

See, here again you’re using the term “immigrant” way too loosely. The majority of people of Pakistani Briton were born in the UK. At that point, it ceases to be an immigration problem, and becomes a problem of racism — aka, exactly the same sort of issue that exists in the US.

I know exactly what you mean. I’m living in the South right now, but I’ve spent a lot of time in Paris, and it’s clear that the terrorists picked their targets for symbolic reasons. ISIS attackers aren’t nameless foreigners operating at random; they’re local, with local understandings. To me, that suggests there’s…

Every word of this. Something like one in four French citizens has an immigrant/foreigner grandparent... not to mention the fact that calling people from the former empire “immigrants” is IMO pretty dicey to begin with, since many of of the Algerians I know come from families who actually settled here while Algeria…

Yeah, so much of this person’s perspective is completely nonsensical. I mean, not to mention the fact that the UK’s biggest immigration controversy at the moment is about “white” immigrants from Eastern Europe (or at least people who would be white according to the American perspective, which is admittedly imperfect…

You’re conflating unlike situations. The North African and Turkish populations in France and Germany are largely the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In France, they’re almost all citizens. At that point, the issues at play become a lot more like American anti-black racism and islamophobia than anti-immigrant…

Good luck getting anyone here to acknowledge that there’s a difference between the Maghreb and the Middle East.

Very well said.

The most depressing thing is, if you google the white guys in this story - Snow, Fritz, and Isgitt - they’re all “enlightened” liberals, whose social media is full of links to thought-provoking articles and charities. And yet look what happens when they actually encounter a person of color.

Is it weird that I am so — idk, almost relieved at how good this show is?

THIS. Residents of the Italian states did plenty of traveling, just in the wrong direction. It was Spanish weakness, not strength, that led them to seek a western route to the Indies.

Right. But JKR didn’t choose to set the original series during the 1930s and 1940s in Europe — and the bits she does lace into the story about Grindelwald really fall apart the more you think about them. Placing this plot in BNA during the 17th century and explicitly talking about Native American communities’…

I have read the books, and enjoyed them overall. In this instance, however, I think it’s disrespectful and seriously messed up.

Of course it’s fiction. But it’s fiction that draws on the lives and deaths of real people — people who were so devoted in their Christian faith that they died, rather than saving their own lives by falsely confessing to being witches. Suggesting that they were witches after all continues the false narrative that…