While this is 100% irrefutable, I find it doesn’t play well when you’re actually trying to get a Trump supporter to engage in critical thinking. They love the idea of the Old West - specifically white people killing brown people. They tend to respond with something like, “well to the victor go the spoils,” only less…

I wonder if they know that Montana is literally Spanish for mountain.

It isn’t based on beliefs. You’re missing important context.

Weird slippery slope fallacy here. It’s fairly easy to determine who’s actively supporting the administration and who’s not.

Nope. You can’t only be an advocate for disenfranchised people one day a year. That’s not good enough, not while children are separated from their parents, not while Holocaust memorials are vandalized, not while people are beaten for being gay or trans, not while unarmed black and brown people are shot dead by police,…

It doesn’t really cost them that much, though. And with the new SCOTUS ruling that employers can force employees to use individual arbitration rather than class action suits, it’s going to cost them even less. So rather than using cost/benefit analysis and coming to the conclusion that they should just treat women…

Okay so I’m a bit late and a bit conflicted about sharing all this, but maybe someone will find it way down deep in all these replies. I was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. I’m 25 and have been healthy all my life, so it’s really been a shock. My support network has been great - my partner is so wonderful that the…

That’s horrific, I’m so sorry! Definitely time to find something new. Maybe there’s some way to let them know exactly how awful they are before you leave. Some note saying “You’re literally promoting an abuser and causing the victim to derail their career by leaving. This is something that happens over and over and…

You are ignoring it, though. And it’s important contextual information. What you perceive as her being treated with kid gloves is actually people responding to the vast power imbalance between an established world leader and an intern just starting their career. We’re not ignoring her autonomy - you’re ignoring the…

I doubt it will happen, but these papers should really go to an archives. Archivists are the ones who know how to preserve them forever and who have a professional obligation to provide access to them (either digitally or in-person). Sadly I don’t know of a single archival repository that has the resources to buy the…

The Obama administration isn’t off the hook for this either. This problem has been going on a long time.

And this goes for white people who were treated badly by Anglo people when they first got here, too. I’m Italian American and my great grandparents were likely part of group that deliberately threw people of color under the bus so that they could be considered white. So just because you “weren’t here for slavery”…

I know it sucks to get called out. It’s happened to me too. Definitely what you did is the best way to handle it. You apologize, acknowledge your mistake, and you move on. You have a marvelous day too!

First, let’s just be clear. I never accused you of being emotional. It seems you either misunderstood or you’re trying to put words in my mouth. I’ll ask you to respond only to what I actually say, not what you assume that I said.

I get that you’re trying to be “objective” and rely on facts, but this is nonsense. Human trafficking is a real risk for these “lost” children, the same way it’s a real risk for runaways or abducted children. It would be callous and frankly stupid to just not consider this risk to real children just because we don’t…

Terry Crews, too! He’s eloquent and compassionate and an all-around good guy. He’s been involved with #MeToo but not as a perpetrator - as a victim himself. Horrific that he had to go through that but he at least has some perspective about harassment that doesn’t revolve around protecting powerful men.

Agreed. I’m really surprised at how many people here are defending this response. I understand that our feelings towards fallen artists that we like are complicated, but this just feels like a cop-out. You can’t just make up a strawman to avoid feeling guilty about supporting one of these men.

Did I miss something? Who’s saying he can’t make art? Genuinely confused.

Exactly! Let’s also support the women who’s careers were derailed by this! Who’s waxing philosophic about their artistic potential?

Did I miss something? Who’s saying he can’t make art?