No, this only targets people who unfairly benefit from affirmative action programs, like brown people who don’t deserve to be treated favorably. The affirmative action programs that target white people, especially rich white people, are fair because white people deserve the best stuff. /s

He does seem to hate the state of Maine, commie liberal northeastern women that they are (just like Alaska and West Virginia). Maybe it was “Blow Maine,” a non-profit to insult those gun aborting urban atheist muslims in New England’s most liberal of states.

In my understanding for TX conservatives, there’s “Texas,” “California,” and “The Liberal Northeast.”

Also, this dumb motherfucker thinks WV is in the Northeast, apparently.

At the end of the movie, when the music and sound finally stop, I nearly had an anxiety attack because I was terrified there would be a loud noise. I think it effectively drove home the traumatic aspect of the conflict that way, but it certainly wasn’t comfortable.

I feel like the Sistine Chapel ceiling was just pandering to the fans. So was Michelangelo’s David and Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Why can’t art just be pure anymore? /s

My favorite thing here are the dual arguments of “It’s pandering to women” and “It’s caving to fan pressure.” For the first, how was it not pandering to have 12 male doctors in a row, especially when it’s long-established canon that time lords can switch gender during regeneration? For the second, almost all of…

The OP should have thrown the shit fit when it was established as canon years ago. Hell, it’s hinted at several times that the Doctor doesn’t even have to be humanoid during regeneration. OP is clueless and is upset about something they don’t understand.

Brooks is mostly just restating Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, but with an eye to the US social class structure. Bourdieu’s major idea was that the upper class uses culturally-coded and cultivated “tastes,” as well as access to social institutions, as a gatekeeper to exclude the lower class.

My guess is that it would be met with opposition from entities that think we already train the police “too much.”In LAPD, the police commissioner pushed for de-escalation training and the union pushed back. In general, police unions fight extra training. Given that police in the US are among the least trained in the…

One of my family members shared a BlueLivesMatter (ugh) article in which the retired LEO that wrote the piece argues that Reynolds’ testimony should be disregarded because she has a pending assault case and admitted to smoking marijuana. The argument was that she’s a criminal so everything she does/says is suspect. A…

Yes, all lawyers think the same way and there’s no way I know a few who don’t think that way. Good job on pointing out my lies, I guess.

I have several friends who argue this is literally the case. “Think about all of those angry people who lose their health insurance and welfare, maybe the time is coming when we’ll finally overthrow the system.” They’re all lawyers and academics in major coastal cities, too, and some of them are pulling in six or…

I’ve been waiting for a chance to use this, and Skittles provided!

Consider the Kim Davis situation (my apologies for invoking her name):

“Why are you liberals taking what I said at face value? You’ll latch onto anything and run with it. It doesn’t matter what I say because you’ll just start a witch hunt. It was just a joke. You’re the real racists!”

How did he still have a job as a parent after that Emma Watson comment?

You’re way more optimistic than I am. I increasingly worry it will be seen as “pretty normal” and “business as usual” to future generations.

Yes, that’s exactly what I said. Great job, dude. I’m so proud. :)

I’m also going to be *that* pedant and say that Edelstein doesn’t understand what “grading on a curve” means. If they graded on a curve, the reviews would approximate a Gaussian distribution. He’s arguing that critics are giving the movie undeserved points for having a woman director and star (movie affirmative…