I know it must seem crazy, but having worked in mass market consumer goods I can understand how these things happen. It goes something like this:

The only reason I thought it was an okay joke to make is that my dad's dad was a Holocaust survivor who used to use his tattoo as his lottery number. Swear to God. He had a DARK sense of humor.

Did you get a free temporary number tattoo with purchase?

I don't agree. And I'll leave it at that. Thanks for the interpretation.

But that's the thing, Kara could totally have gone with a generic "Please note, this is absolutely not the time to bring up your white girl fro" or "frizzy fro" and it would have read pretty much exactly the same and made the exact same point without calling out a specific group.

The author was attempting to preempt that "oh hey I know exactly what it's like to be black because I have curly hair even though I'm white" by telling you to knock it off before you even started. You have all the privileges of whiteness.

Y'all know that Orthodox Jews have these sideburn hair curls called Payots which (regardless of the Orthodox Jew's racial status) serves as a signifier for a religious group with a history of oppression/segregation/violence against them? Although I know the author wasn't thinking of this, she should probably be less…

You absolutely can't distinguish who is or isn't a POC just by looking at a person. I never argued that you could. I'm just saying that I don't see the need to trivialize the experiences of Jewish people to make a point about the experiences of black people.

Jew fro?

True story. I knew this asshole once back in the 80s. Who although never said anything out loud, was totally a closet racist. He didn't really hate other people, but he sure as hell lumped them all together as some homogeneous culture. He never talked to any black people, because he assumed they all liked hip-hop…

I kinda feel like this is indicative of most communities remaining segregated. We say we got rid of segregation in the 1960's, but most places in the U.S. (NOT just the South) aren't truly diverse. If you grow up in a place surrounded by mostly white people, chances are white people are the people you'll be friends…

K but like WHO ACTUALLY HAS 100 FRIENDS? FLAWED SCENARIO.

Oh, please, white-people-who-don't-know-better, do not try to befriend me for the explicit purpose of procuring a black friend. Be kind, be cool, don't be an ass and if there is a basis for friendship it will happen. Call me "girlfriend" in our first conversation, ask me to teach you to twerk or go deep on hair…

Well, I like it. It's fun.

I don't know if Malik Gil really qualifies as a "rape apologist". He's just dumbly concerned with how he appears rather than how other people feel.

"You know, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth."

Add in the fact that food is one of the few affordable, easy-to-acquire, use-anytime things that people can use to comfort ourselves, and of freaking course we're always stuffing ourselves. We can't drink booze, smoke cigarettes, or use drugs at work, and sex isn't always easy to come by, but chocolate gives you a…

Well yeah - I dunno. I read "told her her parts would be blurred" as "it was in her contract that her parts would be blurred" because otherwise, it seems like she wouldn't have a case at all and it wouldn't be worth writing about.

This is a very strange reaction to this lawsuit. Producers told her she would be blurred, she wasn't blurred and you are basically telling her "too bad"?

But if they told her they were going to blur the naked parts, and they didn't, why is she in the wrong here? This is pretty...blamey.