^said by a person not from Miami-Dade county.

While I agree with you that “small fish” are usually paralyzed against speaking out about the “big fish,” I’m still on the side of people pressing Tig Notaro (or anyone, for that matter) to come out with some harder evidence. And CK’s pretty much done what Notaro asked him to do in the first place: he addressed the…

The editors should really step in here and allow you to edit or at least strikethrough “detrimental” when you say below that you meant “instrumental”

Thanks, in the interest of fairness, I’ll check out the link you provided. But if that is what Lilla is trying to say, he needs to frame his arguments in a much better way. He seems to be blaming constituents for advocating for their rights, rather than suggesting that the Democratic Party should include them as part…

I’m all for embracing one’s inner idealist! I guess that’s why I’m so irritated with Lilla’s argument. It’s devoid of empathy, yet he’s right that all of the issues that we care about are indeed about rights and protections.

Lilla is completely misguided, and it sucks because some of his points about consolidating power are ones that democrats need to embrace. But his framework is entirely intellectually dishonest because it assumes that the alternative framing of issues as rights and protections is race neutral. It is absolutely not—it…

DIng ding ding, we have a winner.

You should actually listen to the whole thing, the interviewer was an ass, said half the white population is racist and kept pointing to Obama and Bill Clinton not embracing identity politics as proof that the Democrats were not even engaged in it. In other words, he was disingenuous, like most of Slate and the…

It’s funny that people don’t understand that the only thing people care about is fucking money. You’re average voter does not give a shit about trans bathroom rights.

We don’t have to win Republicans. They won’t vote for Democrats in any case.

We have to win the Obama voters who swung to Trump. We need to capture the center, and we do that on economic issues.

I was shocked to see him make such good points, I find them hard to argue with.

Exactly! Hence my problem with the “Black Power” fist gesture. How do you shout about white power and move to a black power salute? Now back to your well-stated point....I think sometimes folks forget about the math or map. Perhaps some believe shouting only will solve our problems. We might have forgotten that the…

That should read instrumental to the movement... blame autocorrect and this commenting system not allowing edits.

As a correction, that should read instrumental to the movement... I appreciate and welcome all support to the movement(s).

That should read instrumental to the movement... blame autocorrect and this commenting system not allowing edits.

You understand that voting requires math, right?

“White allies have been (and continue to be) detrimental to our movements.”