Exactly this. The CRA made commendable progress at removing racism from our system. It simultaneously made absolutely no progress whatsoever towards removing racism from the constituents that are ruled by that system.

This is right on... Of course policy and laws are important. But they are just words on paper, and as Snowden points out, continually subject to change. Why are people so afraid of the spectre of Trump? Because he may change some of these words on paper we hold so dear. Like it or not, he is the government right now.

Just because he stole documents from the NSA makes him neither principled nor an authority on the important issues in our society.

right cause there arent thousands of cases just over the past couple weeks of republicons calling people libtards, niggers, jews, or the head of Trumps cabinet calling all liberal women dykes.

“Imagine if advocates of human rights held this same worldview fifty years ago. What would the American civil rights movement have looked like in the 1950s and 60s if you didn’t believe changes in policy mattered?”

Go to Breitbart, fuck face. And ISIS is among the least of our worries right now.

What’s your fucking point?

Can’t anyone just be wrong anymore? Do they also have to be a “fucking idiot”?

“And I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s promoting an idiotic worldview that’s completely devoid of answers for how to effectively combat the threat that Donald Trump and his neo-fascist goons pose to our democracy.”

Dude- America just told you that you and your ilk are dead-ass wrong.And I sympathize- it’s me…

Huh.

Assange was the hero of the left when he was releasing national security docs from the Bush administration, but now he's going after your girl, so he's no longer credible. It's just too perfect!