Gah—I dunno why I said Bard College for that forum where Rothstein spoke. It was held at Hyde Park, in the FDR Library. Forty minutes difference, driving-wise, and that same sense of old, stodgy, sus White Money.

Please stop murdering me. . . .

“The Color of Law” is excellent. I have friends and colleagues who’ve read it and recommend it HARD. I haven’t read it, yet, but I went to hear Richard Rothstein speak at Bard College last spring (I work at a small, progressive media outlet and scored a ticket to an amazing forum where Rothstein wasn’t the only…

You are AWESOME!

Also, THANK YOU for the link to that article. I’m trans, myself, but don’t necessarily have the language and theory to adequately describe / defend the difference between a trans person claiming an identity and a Rachel Dolezal doing so.

Why are you asking us? As the “master” race who invented all that a few hundred years back. NO ONE on this site has the answers you want or are trying to elicit. Just find somewhere else that makes you happy and BE THERE. Being here and reviled and miserable isn’t making sincere Root-regulars happy or even making YOU…

THIS.

WELL SAID!

Good grief, if you hate it here so much, and all the Black people-flavored hypocrisy and meanness . . . why don’t you go somewhere you enjoy? I hear tell the Internet is BIG—like, you wouldn’t believe how BIG. And there’s stuff on it called “porn” and other stuff called “memes”—I dunno what either of those are, but…

Can confirm study findings. At least as far as I go. My entire life, despite being AFAB, I’ve never felt female. Always felt like a “me” who’d been shoved into an annoying, inaccurate girl-suit. When I finally had some language and theory for what I’d always felt and noticed, I assumed that meant I was male. But after…

::DED::

::slow, standing applause::

I’m DED. Thanks a lot. . . .

I . . . I didn’t even notice them. WHY did you make me NOTICE THEM????

Jeebus . . . HOW is it even WORSE than I imagined? I mean, I WORKED my imagination HARD. . . .

::MASSIVE HUGS::

I just started digging into narcissism, and other antisocial and adjacent diagnoses (diagnosed BPD, myself . . . among other things) and . . . wow.

“Senile witch king”

Is it, now? Is it, REALLY???

“Shinola” = the American version of Marmite :-)