Whoa, If you think that those two things are in any way equivalent I’m not sure what to say to you other than to swear. The sign’s message is aggressive if you choose to receive it that way. You could just as easily read it as a plea for action than as an accusation. That’s on you.

Right, seems like quite a few folks came away with the impression that I was saying they should change the minds of white ladies who voted for Trump, so I must have expressed myself poorly. I was asking other white women to work to mobilize the white women they knew who were not politically active yet.

Because it’s not 53% of white women, it’s 53% of the white women who voted. Less than half the number of eligible women voters showed up to vote. There are TWICE as many white women out there who didn’t vote than who voted for Trump, and I would love to help get them to vote. I’m not pretending they’re all…

I’ll keep this brief because I covered this at length in my other replies- but I wasn’t hoping that we’d go out and shift the thinking of an unapologetic Trump voter. My (maybe poorly expressed) point was to reach out the the women who either didn’t vote for Trump or didn’t vote at all and try to encourage political…

Changing someone else’s mind about racism is very difficult, but organizing people who are not generally politically active is much easier. Are you familiar with the Helm’s White Racial Identity Model? I have found it really helpful in thinking about where my white friends are on the progression rather than just…

I wasn’t talking about changing the minds of Trump supporters. I explicitly said that white women likely know “some [other] white women who are not politically active” These are the folks to rally.

I’m a teacher too, and nowhere in my post did I say that anyone should speak for all white women. If a person is white, generally they have an affiliate group of white people around them. If there are people in this group that a white person can “turn” toward activism, they should work to do that.

Please ask yourself why this brought up so much hurt and anger, and you might gain some insight into why it’s so important NOT to get defensive. It’s not “pointing false blame” at you, so it’s not worth centering the discussion on you.

Thank you for this. The photo and the interview are both brilliant. I am encountering so many white ladies who can’t get past their own hurt feelings that someone expressed less than 100% enthusiasm for their participation. As much as I’d like to rip into them, I’m trying to call them IN to actual intersectional…

Lady Elaine Fairchilde, without the benefit of the guidance of the other residents of the Neighborhood of Make Believe = Kellyanne Conaway

You’re responding to an argument that no one is making.

I’ll take the Madonna on the left any day. I could definitely outrun that Madonna. The one on the right can unhinge her jaw and will and swallow youth whole.

That’s the great thing about passing out drunk –no need to undress or remove your pesky jewelry!

If you get to leave that here, then I get to leave this too:

Ah, say no more. My high school Russian teacher would be ashamed that I didn’t pick up on that. спасибо товарищу!

I did read your whole post, and my point is calling it TL;DR is that the basis of your long assertion that the university has some role in providing the forum is based on the false belief/assumption that the university cancelled the appearance. They didn’t. Do you need citations? The UC Davis chancellor came out aga…

It does matter what you call it, because a politician who is ashamed of the evil they do is VASTLY preferable to a politician who is boastful about it.

Please. Any effort to normalize him contributed to his victory. Any effort to make him appear likable and relatable contributed to his victory. That’s not “on me”, in fact smarter people than me have written about this specific appearance and its effects.

Yes, but if your argument is that the people we vote for ought to represent 100% of our beliefs then we can only really vote for ourselves. The problem with your position is that, regardless of the fact that she’s been involved in shitty international injustices, Clinton didn’t run on a platform of bombing innocent…

The student group decided to cancel, which some would argue is what they were planning on doing anyway because it adds fuel to the neo-nazi-victim narrative. If your argument is based on the fact that students protested the event, I don’t really need to know any more about your perspective on this. Your whole TL;DR…