I realize the author is trying to accomplish here but this is a very inappropriate way to frame this story. Black people are not natives as much as white people aren’t. Black people are settler colonizers as well. Erasing actual natives by using native/colonizer language when you’re talking about gentrification really…

This is a really fucking rich take from the same website that published like 2000 words about Lauren Duca calling a coworker overweight like 5 years ago. If you’re so worried about all the bad shit, write about that instead of this garbage. It’s really starting to seem like the editors on the former gawker sites need…

This is all our extremely stupid politics are anymore. People would rather jerk off to their politicians because yaaass queen or because they skateboarded than actually consider policy. Fuck this. 

How come everybody always wants to kill Hitler? Why not time travel to, idk, stop the slave trade or the genocide of the Americas? Fuck it, why not stop Eve from eating the forbidden fruit if we’re doing magic shit? 

What do you guys do all day?

I would be happy to admit I was wrong if you did anything to show where I was wrong instead of just acting sanctimonious and superior. 

Cool. Keep your secret wisdom to yourself fuckface. You post any comments that aren’t just you being smug and not contributing anything to anyone? 

One of the proudest moments of my life was when I brought a crappy gas station tall boy into work on my last day at a job I hated. My boss said I couldn’t drink it so I said ‘What are you going to do? Fire me?’ And chugged it while staring at him. Never felt so alive. 

Kamala Harris is a cop who increased the felony conviction rate from 52 to 67 percent in her time as San Fran’s DA and supported California’s three strike law and sought the death penalty in cases. Very interested to see how many commenters here who rightly attack the prison state can justify supporting her while also…

Yes, you’re right, the discussion was about DNA before she ever took the test. And now look how much the conversation about Trump’s cultists have changed. It hasn’t. Her test did not change anyone’s mind, so Warren is the one here who decided to play by his rules and threw Natives under the bus in doing so. She would…

Care to elaborate? 

Lot of people being really shittily dismissive of this. Everyone should take a look at the syllabus linked to get a better understanding of why you shouldn’t be acting like this is nothing. Saying “it’s just science” or “DNA doesn’t” lie ignores the fact that those parameters have been defined by people outside…

Unbelievably shitty of you to so casually dismiss the Sappony with airquotes like that. They are a tribe, no airquotes. They don’t need the approval of a government they far predate for that to be true. Fuck you. 

Can you expand on what you mean a bit more, please? 

Sorry this is a month later since I barely check Kinja, but thank you for this reply. I think I’d forgotten that tendency of his and was only remembering the flashier moments like the aforementioned superpredator thing and such,so thank you for filling in my blindspot. 

Sirota get really hardcore ratio’d by a ton of genuine, non-think tank people on twitter when this happened and it really confused me. People were piling on him, saying he was a Bernie supporter and they would never ever vote for him.