This. This is infuriating. Yes, Esmeralda is not a WOC. And, yes, Victor Hugo wrote the character, not fucking Walt Disney. It’s not dorky, it’s litterature ! Cultural appropriation much ? (french guy here).

Unless a donor asked her to, or if she thought she’d gain an eighth of a percent in the polls if she pivoted to a DACA hostile position. Therein lies the problem with Hillary Clinton. She wouldn’t done it...except....

Said it before and I’ll say it again, the right absolutely owns us on understanding this. They will vote for anyone, no matter how personally odious they find them, if that person will appoint judges to carry out their agenda.

Yeah and even if Clinton had won, we’d probably have a Republican controlled Congress right now anyways.

Nor would she have created a more permanent system for them and future children brought to the US without documents.

Thank you for coming legally, and becoming a citizen to stay.

If they aren’t willing to fight with intelligence and tenacity, what’s the point of voting for more of them? As I recall the Democrats had a filibuster proof majority (at least technically) at the beginning of Obama’s first term and still got rolled pretty hard by the Republicans in the ACA process. I remember during…

Shorter: the Democrats never had any leverage. The Republicans were perfectly willing to make them own the shutdown, right down to using our military personnel as pawns. If you want the Democrats to do something, put them in power; don’t expect them to get Mitch McConnell to do anything at all.

Help me understand this. African Americans are mad that a Caucasian got the lead of Esmeralda who in the book and play is a French Roma who is neither white or black but rather Indian (country) looking. Should not the Indian be appauled at both of the groups.

It was totally invented by white people, for white people to be able to white knight.

As a fellow “Latinx”, I agree! I understand that it’s in the Gizmodo Media Group style guide, so all the writers here are forced to use it, but holy shit is that word irritating. I live in NM, so we mostly call ourselves Hispanic anyway, but I have literally NEVER seen any person—Latino, Anglo or otherwise—use that…

But how will white people let you know they’re one of the good ones?

Prepare to be told by white people that you are wrong.

So the party needs an individual voice for each concern? You don’t need to be “lockstep,” you need to have a platform that explains that inclusion so comprehensively that one person can articiulate it.

I mean, I’m not seeing too many people criticizing Kennedy specifically.

The issue is the Democratic party paying lip service to oppressed groups instead of giving them real representation. We hear plenty of “Go team, we support you, rah rah!” messages from rich white leaders and speakers. But DACA concerns are already…

It’s the most awkward neologism in recent memory.

“Instead of bitching about how he’s 1) white, 2) a Kennedy and 3) isn’t a 100% pure progressive, why not focus on the substance on what was a perfectly cromulent rebutt”

Stop letting perfect be the enemy of the good.

Why isn’t it ever enough for Progressives and Liberals? Why do Democrats have to constantly find fault in their own? This is why Conservatives are even still a thing, because at the end of the day they support each other (shitty policies or human-beings aside), and Democrats are always eating their own.

As a Latinx person, one the best little things everyone can do to support the Latinx community is to stop referring to the Latinx community as “the Latinx community.” It’s “the Latino community,” because “Latino” is the actual Spanish-language word.