Portuguese traders. In other words, other whites.

Um...white people ARE responsible for slavery. At least in terms of this country’s history. Right wingers should really crack open a textbook. Apparently so should Brown.

I’m guessing because of the CIA-apologia in Zero Dark Thirty?

I’m all for increased opportunitites for women to direct, but I’d be happy if none of them went to smarmy propagandist Kathryn Bigelow.

“I wonder how the Covenant Journey trip planners will dance around the existence of Palestinian Christians”

The Evangelicrazies don’t give a rats ass about Jewish people. They just want to be sure when the Rapture happens, they’re in Israel ready to be allowed on the Holy Spaceship to Heaven.

*Holds envelope to head*

I can’t believe you guys left out these additional quotes from The Washington Post which he hasn’t denied:

I think for Raven-Simon a lot of it has to do with her queer ness and the Black community’s discomfort with homosexuality.

Heck, an animal may not even need stunning (not like stunning is 100% foolproof either). Kosher knives are supposed to be insanely sharp, and it makes a difference. We had a kosher butcher come out to kill a sheep once, and it was the calmest killing you’ve ever seen. He just put his arms around the sheep like he was…

Might I suggest

I know a few people who work at one of his companies. They are essentially expected to work 12 hour days and most Saturdays. Seriously. This doesn’t seem too far off to me.

lets all hope these are untrue or else i will have to find someone else to install as the benevolent space dictator of my dreams.

Plus it doesn’t have to be killed in an inhumane way (the vast majority of muslim scholars and Imams agree that it’s totally fine to stun the animal first, is my understanding). Just in case, you know, people who actually care about the way in which plenty of animals are slaughtered inhumanely in all sorts of…

People freaking out about halal meat make no sense. Do they freak out over Kosher meat? No. It’s those Muslim sharia bogeymen that scare them even when it doesn't make sense.

Making your meat Halal is just good business sense. Both Muslims and Jews can eat Halal meat (or Kosher in the alternative) and there is NO PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE from regular meat.

Oooh! OOOOOH! Does this mean we can use the Sharia Law defense to get rid of the ridiculous and oppressive Blue Laws in Texas? Because not being able to buy hard liquor on Sunday mornings is definitely infringing upon my beliefs!!!

Yes, what is this world coming to when employees can refuse service to customers simply based on their own religious beliefs? I’m assuming, of course, that next he’s going to go after the pharmacists and pharmacy techs who refuse to supply customers with birth control and Plan B. Right? Riiiiight?

White fragility is real. I just got done writing a column in which I mentioned white fragility in the context of the recent shootings of unarmed black men and I just know my inbox will be inundated with butt hurt come Wednesday when it’s published. The mere act of mentioning racism is still a thing drives people…