I have a "friend using the N word" story from like 25 years ago. So there's a large group of us hanging out at someone's house, drinking beer, etc. Everyone is white except for me. Friend's brother stops by with his dog - Friends brother is white, but a total surfer/rasta/stoner dude into reggae, etc. Talk turns…

"She's from the South and somewhat younger than I am (not excuses, but perhaps explanations)..."

""She's from the South and somewhat younger than I am (not excuses, but perhaps explanations)"

A friend of mine wrote a great piece about this a while ago, helping to explain why SCOTUS thinks holistic review is okay but quotas are not. http://www.michiganlawreview.org/articles/what-…

Affirmative action policies are permissible only when they include race as one factor in a holistic admissions process. Any university using race as the sole criteria would be operating in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

I went to a college that had a well established, but not over whelming Greek scene (it wasn't go greek or go home- but you definitely knew who were and who weren't) And there was a historically black fraternity that totally counted as "bros" (I couldn't even begin to tell you what fraternity. Tappa Kegga Brew? They…

Totally fucked up Kutcher's placement. He belongs over by Ryan and Jenner for the self-satisfied douche factor alone.

One of the major differences is that the GSA would actually let you volunteer.

The Girl Scouts provided me with many memorable life experiences, including what the pit of an outhouse looks like when illuminated all weekend by a dropped flashlight.

I tried Girl Scouts as a kid. Too much sewing and cooking, not enough camping for me. My dad was a boy scout troop leader, realized when I was about 7 that I was getting absolutely nothing out of it, other than a great recipe for a pineapple upside down cake. He adopted me into his boy scout troop as their "mascot"…

Urgh...

First thing that came to mind...and I can't apologize enough for this...

You would think it'd be that way, but actually, very consistently, oppressed groups rely on what privileges they have to climb up the social ladder. That's why, very frequently, the people who are directly above another group on the social ladder are the biggest overt -ists; it becomes very important for a lot of…

So some people accept her apology and believe in the power of redemption and forgiveness, what of it? It doesn't mean they are in support of racism. Why do some people get angry when others don't go along with the witch hunt and crucifixion? Boycott her if you want, that's your free choice, just don't get upset when…

By that logic all oppressed minority groups would empathize with all other oppressed minority groups, and historically that certainly hasn't been the case.

Annnnd... cue the ignorant hypocrisy. One of my lesbian neighbors just posted her support of Paula Deen on Facebook. This after constant complaints of how her own father won't accept her or her wife.

Here's one I think you skipped:

Cool.
Now let's talk about the myriad of racists in the rest of the country. You know, the kind that are totally and very outspokenly unsurprised and offended when some southern personality does something racist, and omg thank gawd we're more progressive than that where we're from....until one of their kids wants to…

I've always maintained that the Unintentional/Accidental Racist is actually worse than full-blown openly racist assholes.

I think you mean petrifying.