To be fair though, for thousands of years, the vast majority of people with power/wealth have been monsters, so this isn’t exactly a new development. The only thing that’s really changed is that, due to modern technology, we now know the extent to which our rich and powerful are disgusting creatures.

So earnest and non-threatening! <3

The only thing Gideon Yago is burning these days are latte’s when it’s rush hour at coffee bean

This piece is really, really great for spotlighting all the commenters who’ve never taken a college class, do not understand things like context or historical connotation, and who possess absolutely no critical thinking skills. Turns out there’s a whole lot of them.

you seem like someone who has been on the internet long enough to have seen the obvious rejoinders to your shit ass argument: it is possible to give a fuck about more than one thing at the same time. Me taking a minute of my day to comment on something like doesn’t stop me from caring about the Baltic states or…

Psychology Today is notoriously horrible. They also published this racist garbage that had nothing to do with science and everything to do with the writer’s own racist need to pin his inadequacy on other people.

Yankees/Botox rivalry

No. Polyamory is not equivalent to being in an interracial relationship or being gay. Get out with that nonsense.

The conversation happens all the time. I identify publicly as a gay man because of a few significant factors in how my life works. Personally, I wouldn’t consider myself as either part of the gender binary and, if I felt it would be easily implemented, would prefer they/them pronouns.

What it lacks in flash, it makes up for by being rather unimpeachable.

I understood their point.

Way to shit on queer kids & transfemmes for no reason.

Okay, let’s not go there. They’re shit, but deciding they’re a straight cis man because they’re shit sets a bad precedent. Invalidating people’s gender & sexuality is a dick move.

I’ve never doodled a swastika, because why would I? This experience is not as universal as you think.

Absolutely.

A lot of these rules made sense in context: many of the orthodox Jewish traditions are rooted in hygienic practices in Bronze/Iron age Israelite communities. This may very well be one of them. The problem is these traditions survived well beyond their necessity.

I feel like I didn’t say enough in my first comment. I think the students should do with these silly, archaic ceremonies whatever they want. It’s their celebration. But how the Trump team doesn’t know a minefield when there are signs all over the place that say MINE FIELD DEAD AHEAD boggles my mind. How does putting…

Who gives a shit? The event belongs to this graduating class, not to Democrats, not to you.

The only people who are going to be upset about this, people who focus on “civility” instead of the content of the message, are people who are looking for something to be upset about anyway. Fuck the optics.

Yes, but that second one is actually also Betsy DeVos.