yeah, when people say stuff in public like "thank Christ" or "Jesus preserve me" or "thank you jesus!" I flinch. people tell me its stupid of me to react like that but I say its racial memory.

Well, that explains why in Nicolas Sparks' south you never see any black people.

I believe it. I'm definitely not saying all Christians, but I'm never surprised when one of those high-profile Christians turns out to be anti-Semitic. There's often a dark Jew-hating side to the elevation of Christianity. (And I'm even less surprised about the homophobia and only a little more surprised by the…

You mean to tell me that the guy who writes stories about attractive straight white people in love is RACIST and HOMOPHOBIC? Say it isn't so. Btw, since when did "I'm not a bigot, I have a gay Jewish lawyer!" become the new "I'm not racist, I have black friends"?

seriously. The poc in his books - all 2 of them - are caricatures. They can't even diversify the crowd scenes in his movies because the towns are lily white. He's also tossed in some "all feminists are hairy man haters" rhetoric for good measure.

Oh, good, I wasn't the only one with this thought. I read the allegations (which are atrocious, don't get me wrong), and my first thought was, "Well, he loves over romanticizing straight, young, white couples in the South with occasional-to-frequent Christian overtones. ...None of this is surprising to me."

It's gotten to the point where I don't wear my Star of David anymore or tell anyone I'm jewish unless I'm totally sure it's safe. Anyone else feel like anti-semitism is having a huge upswing?

Depends on what you mean by "I believe in aliens". Believing that in a supermassive universe with trillions of trillions of stars that somewhere there is extraterrestrial life is not "crazy". In fact it's basically a statistical inevitability.

Exactly, and that is the problem! You say you believe in aliens and people figure that means you believe in Roswell grays and anal probing and stuff.

Imo such people don't feel safe in a world where abuse can be named and shamed.

white supremacists ...and cops, although I imagine there is a fair bit of overlap in that particular Venn diagram

Seriously - whenever I hear some mouth-breather complain "Why do gays have to announce that they're gay? I don't announce to everyone that I'm straight." my response is always "Because no man was ever beaten to death because he liked girls."

Abuse culture 101: the perpetrators are innocent and the victims are the wrongdoers. Works every time.

Abuse apologists always believe themselves to be reasonable. They are scum.

The idea that bullied children shoot up schools is a misguided media ploy.

People who say that are fucking poo-faces. Those people are usually also telling women, racial minorities and people with disabilities to shut up too.

How about GET AN ADULT?!

I understand that a bit more than the reverse, I think. Nobody wants to be oppressed. People from minority groups who are doing pretty well in life will often separate themselves from people who are struggling because they "make us all look bad" or because they don't want to associate themselves with such a negative…

All because the system says you defending yourself is morally, ethically, and legally the same as the routine bullying you've dealt with or the beating you receive after you do the only thing you can to try to escape.