“Whiteness” is a construct designed by a particular group of people in order to exclude particular other groups and deny them their rights.

We tried it. It was called the Articles of Confederation, it didn’t work, and we replaced it with a stronger federal government that was granted express powers over the several States under the Constitution.

I presume the issue for EU member nations is that they are all sovereign nations with their own identities and, at least for now, they are unwilling to see themselves as merely a member state of another country. My (limited) understanding of the EU was to form a union that facilitated trade and other economic benefits…

the fact that states can make things legal that the federal government has deemed illegal (hello, weed) sort of goes against the one government rule of being a country.

That’s what gets me about this. Chinese director casts a movie the way he wants to = offensive. White people tell Chinese director how to cast his movie = social justice.

don’t we have to take the artists word for it?

It’s kind of hypocritical outrage, too. A white blogger, no doubt along with many commenters here, is complaining about ‘white saviors’ by trying to be the savior who explains to a Chinese director how to correctly recognize and address issues supposedly holding back non-white actors.

Are you implying that bankable stars are heavily featured in trailers for movies in ways that overstate their roles in the film itself? Fetch my smelling salts, post-haste!!

I realized it in college when I said it smelled like a storm and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. It was weird, like when I learned on here a while ago that other people’s imaginations aren’t like full color movies.  

Yeah. i find that surprising — i can hear light bulbs, i can smell electricity, and there’s a vibrational quality to a lot of stuff that I can feel that makes me a bit nuts.

I know. It’s like librarys in the old days. You’d just wander around the library without any direction hoping to find the book you wanted. Use the card catalog they’d say? Bah, why would I use the tools given to me by the library to help locate my interests when I can just wander through the building lost?

But if the site wants to attract new users and casual users, those people have to start somewhere. If the process of avoiding incredibly offensive content is something you have to commit time to, most people would rather just go somewhere that doesn’t allow content like that.

I mean, it’s at least some part reddit’s fault since they could certainly be less hands-off with actual hate speech, but it doesn’t mean reddit as a whole, or all its users, are bad.

If you’re spending any time on r/all... that’s the wrong way to reddit.

True, I go to Reddit for the r/nosleep subreddit that houses original and often rather good horror fiction. No Donald there, just comforting Lovecraftian terrors, ghosts, and non-political monsters!

If you’re spending any time on r/all... that’s the wrong way to reddit. I’ve whittled my front page down to subreddits like r/campingandhiking, r/personalfinance, r/nba, etc. It’s a useful tool if you curate it for yourself and I haven’t seen a single trace of r/the_donald all year.

After reading this screed, pausing, and reading it again to make sure I didn’t misunderstand anything, my only response is “good riddance”.

I’m pregnant and have no time for sandwich-making. I shall be eating leftovers as I always do, cold, right out of the off-brand tupperware, standing over the sink. Come at me.

$100 to the Sacred Stone Camp.

Welcome to 2016 America!