Nope, it’s racism from mostly higher income earners.

I’m sorry, but being working class is 100% morally superior to being super rich. There’s an amount of money that no one needs.

I don’t listen to HAIM very much, but when I do it’s almost always this soothing cover:

Not sure what your race is. I’m a Black female raised in Alabama. And I grew up with this image ingrained in my mind from childhood. Stories from my Mom about her childhood. Whenever she and the other kids were playing outside, but weren’t within immediate reach of their home, they’d have to run underneath the nearest…

Counter argument: It’s okay to punch Nazis.

I think you’re (intentionally) misunderstanding what this article is actually saying.

And further, I must also point out that the publicity they gained was very largely negative. Sure, some people who are already strongly leaning their way will be thrilled by the violence, but those who are strongly against are feeling vindicated in their hatred of fascists, while this is forcing more moderate folk to…

bfine and Vagenius do have a strong point - in both Germany and Italy, there were grassroots anti-fascist fighters who were resisting the early fascist movements. Eventually, the parts that had loyalty to the social-democratic (what most people today, confusingly, refer to as just “socialist”) parties stood down when…

Yeah we tried that last time and by the time it was over, literally 73 MILLION people died. Fascists love people like you who don’t take them seriously.

What I like better about Obama is that in his bio still says “Dad, husband, President, citizen.”

Yup. I’m so fucking sick of hearing the “But what about ANTIFA violence?!?” nonsense. Antifa wouldn’t exist if these Nazi fuckheads didn’t first. Not all violence is equal.

You are some piece of work.

“I spent a fair share of my early 20's involved in the liberation theology movement in South America, and back then, there was this sense of respecting everybody’s narrative without excluding allies.”

What would that count for?

You wanna help? Okay cool. Listen. By listening over time you will learn discernment and real empathy. The kind that makes you recognize that it could happen to you. It also enables you to stop looking at blacks thru certain conditioned filters.

If you are truly interested in evolving on this I’d think about why your response to people of colour telling the truth about their experience of white people and whiteness gets your hackles up. I’d also think about why you feel empowered to declare their reactions unjust or over the top—would you think a man gets to…

This is the gem you just agreed with

I am okay being distrusted by POCs due to my whiteness. I am also okay recognizing the myriad ways I benefit from whiteness and white supremacy. And that I will fuck up and show myself to not be trustworthy at some point, because that’s how whiteness works.

Well on Jezebel’s SNS there’s a thread about how The Root’s not conciliatory enough to whites in their coverage of what happened today so... there’s that. And if that’s how supposed White allies feel I’m not very hopeful that this will open many eyes.