Straight, white lady privilege talk.

Don’t watch it if you’re already depressed. I have to wait for the right mental place to see stuff like that. But it was really good.

I still don’t get the success of Hamilton. Not because it’s a bad play. cause its clearly not, but I’m just surprised by how much of a global phenomenon it has becomes. Friends of mine who absolutely HATE rap and barely consider it music fucking love Hamilton. White people I know who hate black people fucking love…

You can’t expect an American Presidential candidate to be familiar with world geography.

Afghanistan is Central Asia, and not the Middle East (you moron).

I don’t understand how so many people are so familiar with it! Not all of these people can have gone to see it... and do people really just listen to the soundtrack without seeing the show? That sounds... not appealing to me.

it appears to be both a hate crime and a terrorist attack. neither label is inaccurate, and both are important.

like there’s lots of middling level vocal talent out there (and i love pop music)

I am of the belief that it’s not so much that black audiences don’t want white artists exploring a black sound: the issue is that white artists can be bad while employing black style and still be successful.

I love this place. I’ve been here for years and I intend to be here no matter what happens. This whole thing just makes me ill. I feel legitimately nauseous.

The degree to which a child will be ‘handicapped’ as you say by attending a less-than-the-best school is smaller than you might think (per research). You have to get pretty far down the “less than great” schools list before the educational outcomes, when controlling for demographic factors, start to get impacted.

Same. My husband and I don’t have kids yet but I work in education and am determined to send any kids we might have to CPS for as long as possible. I hear about people hauling their kids all across the city to go to charter schools or spending $15k+/year to send a single child to private school and it just... no. Not…

It depends on the state.

Let’s be honest: most of these situations are prisoner’s dilemmas, which is why they’re so damn hard to fix. And also why admonishing people to stop being selfish is a shitty way to go about making changes. Because, frankly, it’s irrational to be your own executioner.

well said. it’s not ok for your students to be there either, but its the reality of our education system. We need wholesale reform in the US, and I’m sure you know firsthand from teaching. One day...

We’re planning to send our kids to public school. We both went to public schools, and obtained terminal degrees in our field. Having parents who understand, appreciate and encourage education is far more important than having a private school.

Or we could divorce the funding of schools from the property values of where they are located. It makes no sense that School A, enrollment 100 students, receives more money than School B, enrollment 100, just because they happen to be 15 miles (or less) away from each other. Ashleigh and Carolyyn and Aiden aren't more…

Look, call me selfish or a bad liberal but my kids are being sent to a place where they’ll be safe, where they’ll be well-educated and where they won’t have to deal with over-stressed, underpaid and disinterested teachers.

We sent our (white) kid to public school while most of our friends sent theirs to private for the very reason that we wanted our kid to see all kinds of people, not just privileged white kids. We don’t live in the US, but we live in a very economically (and to a lesser extent, racially) segregated region of a foreign…

The per 100g labels aren’t for being able to count calories and macros as you eat them. They’re used to compare the actual nutrient density between products. American labels don’t do that so you’re unaware of how foods actually compare to one another and wind up buying one or the other based on perception.

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