People are being willfully ignorant about this song at this point. The historical context has been explained ad nauseum re: the woman wanting to stay but being unable to say so explicitly due to social norms at the time and the man trying to give her reasons to stay so as to provide her with cover. And the line…

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but there’s no details explaining how we can link this to medical negligence? Creating a belief that Ms. Porter went a doc and got negligent care because she’s black doesn’t seem accurate; I have read that she was feeling ill the night before passing and was discovered at home deceased, not…

A 15-hour shift? Holy shit, that’s insane. Police unions love those crazy 10+ hour shifts because they enable officers to live 100 miles from where they work and come in at odd hours to avoid traffic (and have time to work second jobs, even though big-city cops are grossly overpaid in this country relative to the…

Schulte: “They usually call your cell phone when they’re here.”

Nope. That white lady did NOT deserve THAT fucking brutal shit.

Saying a GODDAMNED *WORD* doesn’t give you ANY fucking right to touch and hurt someone physically.

DC Metro workers get away with all kinds of bullshit that hinders service. Might as well put it to use for once.

I suddenly feel a lot better about the candidate in my fifth district writing erotic literature about Bigfoot... at least he’s not this guy.

Uh, your point?

It might be interesting to mention that she is obviously a Femen protester? That does add a bit of context to the protest (whatever one might think about them)...

But also, that’s not a topiary.

So lame, Emma. Seriously, you guys stumble into gift-wrapped stories, and you don’t know what to do with them.

I agree about the 9 parts stupid - but you didnt get played.

I’ve never understood the point of satire that’s indistinguishable from what it’s satirizing. 

100% THIS! I’m usually the “killjoy” but seriously something is disturbing and voyeuristic with these people. The way they kept naming items (“Look and there is a monkey in the corner”,, “I cry every time too!”). Also why are there so many and why are they all white...in Detroit? I know Black people volunteer too and…

I cried, of course, because I’m a human being.

And yet... and I even hesitate to say this... I cringe a bit at the well intentioned people shoving cameras in their faces. “Look at what we did for you! What do you think of your place? WE EVEN GAVE YOU CLOTHING HANGERS.” I guess it’s because I’m oversensitive to the…

In before this comments thread detonates.

They have to dis-incentivize STEM careers. How else will they fill all those millions of new jobs digging coal that Donnie is going to create?

Marvel movies are like the only thing Australia gets to see cinematically before the US, so its darn tooting right that America should get to feel like how the rest of the world feels in relation to movies some of the time.

This kind of shit is exactly why I left the art world. I saw a vegan I graduated college with (I know she’s vegan because she never shut up about it) defending this because it’s only through “extreme art” that we become “disgusted with ourselves.”