We’re great at organizing marches, designing biting memes and Twitterizing.

The scandal is that an American president hasn’t released his tax returns. It doesn’t matter if the news wasn’t “news” or Maddow hyped it for ratings. Anything that reminds people of Trump’s shadiness is positive.

Sorry, but sitting down for a conversation with it just legitimizes it. He may be trying to do the “right thing” but the message he’s sending to the country is: The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name is a human being who will soon be the rightful President, just like me.

When you harass POC for speaking their truth you are part of the final problem.

I think it was Montesquieu who said: “When you have all the power you don’t need any of the rights.” Or maybe it was Macchiavelli.

Speech that’s wrong doesn’t deserve to be free. It deserves to be locked in an underground cage. In the greys.

In the case of Bush, Assange’s revelations did the world a public service by laying bare the chicanery and bad judgement of a right wing nutjob.

Let’s get a few things straight:

I don’t see the point of the feminist media continuing to give this story oxygen. It just arms the rape apologists and perpetuates rape culture.

Except that when people like you say:

it’s been clear for more than a year now that she is in fact not a victim

No, you’re the idiot, Bengay. The story was never proven to be a hoax. RS retracted because their journalistic malfeasance meant the story couldn’t be substantiated, not that it was untrue.

Your heart may be in the right place, but fuck that dissembling nonsense. “Believe” means believe. As in, believe until proven otherwise. Not “take an agnostic view while you neutrally investigate.”

She actually does. She said victims are to be believed until their accusations are determined to be untrue. All of the accusations against Bill have been determined to be untrue.

I don’t know why RZA is shilling for Crowe but I doubt Banks was behaving obnoxiously or erratically. This is just the kind of b.s. you get accused of when you’re a strong woman of color who doesn’t take any crap.

And yet it’s “NOT A RACE OR GENDER ISSUE?” Seems like both to me.

Click claimed that her firing was “all about racial politics,” and that as a “white lady” she’d been an “easy target.”

Why use a fictional character’s fictional rape, which is not substantiated by the historical record, to start a conversation about rape, when you have both your own actual experience and Parker’s rape of another women as conversation-starters?

The way she did this very much does dismiss Parker’s actions. Her op-ed boils down to: “Nobody knows whether he raped her or not. We need to teach people that rape is wrong. This is an important movie.”

I’m so tired of people downplaying wrong by saying it started a “conversation.” Especially here, where it was the revelation of the rape, not the movie, that started the conversation.