It’s like saying “Oh, she’s a regular chef; she CAN’T do vegetarian dishes. The vegetarian customer needs to educate her.”

That white privilege is a hell of a drug isn’t it? It fucks the mind up so much that it expects POC to teach the professional how to do their job for them.

Class? Defined by your standards of course. If you actually read her post you’ll see she has tried to address this directly and been forced to be ‘apologetic’ about her skin. Of course you want to force respectability politics on to her. She should be grateful for her unique position right? A spokesperson? No one is…

If a make-up person doesn’t know how to do black people’s makeup then perhaps they have no business calling themselves a professional.

Because we moisturise. You should try it.

WHAT? Are you mad? Are you seriously suggesting that the difference between black and white skin is comparable with the difference between black and white hair?

Just like a black make-up artist can’t be expected to know how to deal with white people’s skin.

Then they need to quit their fucking jobs and find something else to do.

You raise a great point here. Guilty of this many times myself. I actually apologized to my facialist a few weeks back, because I was having a break out. Cuz somehow, she needed to know right then and there, that I took full responsibility for my pimple(s) :/

Probably in the make up chair. Many women do this when we feel uncomfortable. The make up artists probably said that they didn’t have the right shade of make up, and she apologized for the inconvenience, even though it was the make up artist who should have apologized for being unprepared.

I raise you Smoked Salmon Candy from Alaska.

It’s definitely a deconstructionist take on Superman, and I’m fine with it as long as the upcoming sequel addresses the fact that Batman is a right wing fantasy about inheriting a fortune and using it to stage high tech assaults on the mentally ill and the criminalized poor. Instead of, I don’t know, creating jobs,…

And the political right creates a false equivalence between literally every law. “Oh, I can’t punch this homeless guy, but he can sit on the sidewalk all he wants?”

Operating a business in the public sphere means you agree to comply with anti-discrimination laws. Nobody forced the business owners to do that.

I’m against discrimination but also against forcing people to make you a cake when they don’t want to. Do we really have to sue every bigot? Won’t this just upset them more?

I agree it’s an exorbitant amount. The worst part is that you know they’re going to make bank with a gofundme campaign after this.

I get that there needed to be some kind of punishment, but $135000? That’s just ridiculous and only adds fuel to the bigots who are using them as icons. And who gets all that money?

“Vaccination campaigns that began in the sixties led to the elimination of measles from the U.S. in 2000—but vaccine refusal, spurred in large part by a small but vocal contingent of anti-vaccination advocates, has, in recent years, driven measles infections in the United States to record levels.”

Good. He wants to act like a jerk, players can act like jerks right back. I love it!