This is funny to me because they’ve both played some real sleezeball characters, but agreed.

I saw a car with an I Stand With Seaworld bumper sticker a couple of weeks ago! I almost took a picture because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. Like... why is that the hill anyone would choose to die on?

I totally want to read this book even though I’ve never watched the show and probably never will.

I’m a teacher. It doesn’t matter what subject you’re teaching, if you’re white and you aren’t actively working to be antiracist you are risking harm to your students of color (as well as potentially modeling racism for your white students). Kids are obsessed with fairness — if you are treating different kids…

It’s honestly so appropriate that this line is being delivered by a tragically deceased celebrity.

I am obsessed with fake fur and terrified that one day I’m going to get red paint thrown on me while I yell “I don’t even eat meat you guys!”

Wow I don’t think anyone looks good here. Tilda’s emails honestly made me cringe with their “little ol’ me” vibe; she’s obviously smart and educated and could have put a lot more thought into how to approach the subject. She really comes off as not knowing how to listen to a person of color and just wanting her own…

Wilson is devastatingly handsome and he knows it.

God I remember that inauguration so clearly. I lived in Washington DC at the time, and I was falling in love with my then-boyfriend (now spouse) after we’d bonded over our anger at the country somehow re-electing Bush. As I was walking home from a class, I saw fireworks in the air, and for a moment forgot what they…

A lot of these far-right types believe that changes in a culture as a result of demographic shifts are a form of “genocide.” They might be a little closer if they went with “ethnocide,” which is the forcible destruction of a culture rather than the people themselves, but yeah no. White European and American cultures…

What do you think Twitter is, a really confusing form of experimental fiction?

It reminds me a lot of Frasier Crane. I totally understand the impulse to think “I could do a lot of good for people... in a way that also gets me lots of money and attention.” But it’s very much the impulse of a deluded ego in like 99% of cases.

Points for trying, but damn if that isn’t a beauty pageant answer.

I’ve heard more white people complain about him saying that. Clearly it struck a nerve.

I think an important tactic to change the overall culture is that if we find a behavior reprehensible, we try to make it socially unacceptable. Like sexual harassment in the workplace used to be seen as a sort of charming mischief by a lot of people, and now, at least in its more overt forms, it’s generally seen as…

Okay this is a little confusing. The condom was in K’s room. Willingham, her friend, found it and thought it might be evidence that Winston raped K. However it turned out later that it was from another encounter that K had, presumably without Willingham’s knowledge.

Clover is black, so I don’t think she has white guilt.

I worked on the Clinton campaign and have been talking to a lot of voters in my Southern state for months, and yeah, a lot of white people believe they’ll lose power — though they might phrase it as “security,” “stability” etc — if the government accepts more immigrants and refugees or works harder to protect the…

My theory is that President Obama strikes a lot of white Americans, particularly younger ones, as an “acceptable” kind of person of color — a cool, famous Black man. White people can accept and even admire him from a distance, and still not want immigrants, refugees and other POC in their neighborhoods. Because…