Someone telling you not to eat hot sauce is stupid. Someone telling you you’re 35 and that means you might have a harder time getting pregnant/have a higher chance of having a down syndrome or other genetic abnormalities is fact. I know this because SURPRISE I’m a pregnant woman and meet lots of pregnant women who…

Trump only care about things that personally affect him. He sure seems concerned about a disproved connection between Autism and Vaccines. What would be your guess, Russian Operative?

Fits the pattern: identify the outspoken figure least appropriate for a job, then give it to her/him. It’s the same way he found Betsy DeVos, Rex Tillerson, and Jeff Sessions.

do you have suggestions?

I’m hearing leaders of religious circles calling for no sects in the champagne room.

I want you to have this conversation and I want to be on speaker phone.

That’s enough internet for today.

How is this douchebag consistently in the black with multiple different usernames while many other non-troll commenters are consistently in the grey?

In this situation I responded to him because it was early in the comment thread and he had already responded to multiple people. So even if I had ignored his own response to me, I felt public education was necessary. Believe me, I have years of dealing with him. If I didn’t ungrey him, someone else was going to. So I…

I was a mentor for a FIRST robotics team made up of high schoolers when I was in university. Our team earned a chance to go to Nationals and our students were lucky enough to be able to go. Thankfully, due to fundraising, we could cover the cost for kids who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to go.

Wow. Who pissed in your cornflakes? I was in band in high school (marching and concert). We attended one out of state competition each year - it was definitely a privilege, and the socioeconomic profile of the school made it possible. The competition wasn’t hugely important, and it wasn’t a huge honor to attend or win…

“If the tables had been turned and I had used something...and been as insensitive as to say something like that, you’re talking about I would be boycotted, there would be people not buying my albums.”

Ok I will play. First of all, this wasn’t meant to demean him. Why, because being a white boy has never been seen as a bad thing. Now if he said that “black chick” there may be some fury, not much,but maybe some, but there is some nuance that you and Bo Bice seem to be ignoring that comes in to play. If he said “that…

Wait, he referred to his Build a Bear recipient as black, while complaining that someone referred to his skin color. FOH.

And the cop will get rich from a “gofundme” account- if he hasn’t already.

Just an FYI, a cop has sued the family of someone they killed (for 10M) due to the pain and suffering that the investigation into the shooting caused the officer.

I’ve already seen that video before and being black I’m not exactly shocked by cops behaving badly.

Really? It was actually quite high profile since this was in a lull of cops killing unarmed black kids.

Race. Race. race in this country is weighted. I’m white so I can’t really speak, but it’s deep, it’s pervasive, it’s ineffable, it’s insidious, it’s blatant, it’s covert, it’s excused, it’s exerted, it’s violent, it’s subtle, it’s mean, it’s condescending, it’s concealed, it’s legitimized.

Specifically, it’s good that she’s suing.