My mother-in-law has heard church friends saying Christians aren’t supposed to “live in fear”, so that’s why they don’t wear masks. Do they also not lock the doors to their homes, or fill up the tank when the fuel light is on, or maintain a reasonable distance from wild animals when they visit national parks?…

Now that’s interesting. And all they had to do was talk to a few people. I could have told them that myself - I group Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel, West Elm, etc. together as competitors. I would not include Pier 1 in that group.

And all lives matter. Until they’re expected to treat all lives like they actually matter.

There’s a good article on Slate today about the performative nature of these videos in the US https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/viral-mask-freakout-videos-as-premeditated-performances.html?via=homepage_taps_top

Facebook in particular. 

I bought my first “grown up” furniture from Pier 1. I was either in college or just out of college but I bought a desk for my bedroom (large, white, distressed, small bookshelf on the end) and a wooden trunk. I still have both of them and while the desk could probably use a little love (there’s coffee stains and some…

Remember Natasha Tynes, the lady who got “cancelled” because she tried to get an MTA worker fired for eating on the train?

solidarity is for white women?

I was coming here to say the exacy same thing.

UUUUGGGHH I hate this shit. I hate that as an adult white woman this is what I’m sold - that this is what I’m supposed to aspire to: perfect beach waves, a skinny ass, and an “entrepreneurial spirit.” That somehow if I don’t achieve these things I’m wasting my life, “not devoting time to myself,” or, if I have…

This reads the plot of the SATC episode where Charlotte goes to a self help seminar. But for the lean-in era. It’s ironic that these women are crumbling under the pressure of doing it all yet gravitate to messages that insist they must do it all. 

The bigger mystery to me is, who watches these videos? Who follows these people and wants to listen to basic people spewing basic shit for 45 minutes, which could be condensed into 2 minutes but they stretch it out foreeeeever to get more $$$$?

On #3. Besides from the fact that the kids could go ‘oh heck, they could get rid of ME’ and how fucked up that is, it could also go ‘well, if I don’t like something/someone that is different than me, I can just get rid of it/them’. Really messing up future relationships, both familial, social, and professional.

Sometimes there are not two sides in a “debate” because one of them is just wrong.  She is telling women to shut up about white privilege - black women.  That’s not a debate.  That is being bigoted whether she likes it or not.  She could have acknowledged her intent wasn’t the impact, copped to the fact her language…

I’m black and I don’t necessarily agree with him but he has my vote. The alternative is an unrepentant racist. 

You’re absolutely right. I honestly can’t comprehend the point of continuing to tear Biden down for every one of his minor fuck ups that mean NOTHING in the long run. The alternative is so unthinkable that like you said-it’s not worth the criticism.

The Current Resident has a wide series of racist policies that, over the past four years, have directly led to the unnecessary deaths of non-white people.

Honestly. Do you want 4 more years of fat Nixon? Our country can’t take it.  Continue to point out Joe’s flaws and don’t vote for him/stay at home. He is all we have right now. Hopefully, he has picked an awesome backup team.

Still voting for him. Saying something ill-advised* and apologizing =/= saying racist shit and never apologizing, saying everyone else is wrong for thinking the racist shit was racist and then doubling and tripling down by saying it again and again.