I think the cover is great and totally falls within the bounds of artistic license for me. I didn’t see it as disrespecting Dao so much as an allegory for a cretinish abuse of power. The fact that it is thought-provoking at a minimum and might even make people uncomfortable is precisely what makes it effective as art.…

MULDER: Uhhh. Thanks for the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Because they love you and want to save you from yourselves by showing you the error of your ways. Or some such bullshit. I don’t know, I guess once you’ve decided that you’re going to base your worldview on a science-free, millennia-old mythology of talking snakes and bushes, immaculate conception and zombie prophets,…

“claimed that O’Reilly repeatedly bragged about his phone-sex prowess,”

That’s not really an accurate depiction of all of Africa. It A.) Has had empires over it (look up Mansa Musa for an example). And B.) The massive trade of slaves aided in a massive depopulation of large swaths of the continent. Encentiviseing tribes to go to war much more often to capture slaves to exchange for goods…

You know there may be times where POC do, in fact, get a benefit over a white person because of diversity policies. That can happen. And it can mean that a better qualified white person does not get the job.