I don’t know. I’m kind of the opinion if you don’t want to do your job, you shouldn’t have that job. And providing comprehensive reproductive health care to women is their job. If you don’t support gay marriage, don’t be part of a job where you have to gay marry people. If you’re allergic to peanuts, don’t work at a…

I don’t see why doctors can’t have that obligation. They have an obligation to treat their patients. They don’t get to not treat homosexual patients because of religious grounds, they don’t get to refuse treatment to racial minorities, medicine has no room for the practicioner’s religious belief. A doctor should only…

This whole piece, and especially that quote, really struck a chord with me. I grew up in a working class family and attended an elementary school in a predominately black and Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles. I earned a scholarship for all four years to a prestigious, private all girls high school. During my time…

I thank God everyday that Obama had Scalia “taken care of”.

He can haunt a courthouse lavatory. Instead of Moaning Myrtle, we’ll have Screaming Scalia.

also love the fucking a (insert PoC) super gross.

Or maybe Doof was thrown out of a safe space at one point and has been vowing revenge ever since.

what is with people using that as an insult? I’ve never claimed anything or said anything about safe spaces but as soon as someone doesn’t like my argument they go straight for “fuck your safe space” like that is something every single person who leans liberal uses as an argument. It’s so stupid.

Y’all, it’s the American way: anyone with a single white ancestor is considered white, no questions asked!

I would be interested to see something that backs up your assertion that employers and school administrators can define what constitutes minority status? I’ve never heard that before, and can’t find a clear resource that answers it.

Oh, well see, so you feel you are allowed to define what is and is not a minority, and that’s just not how the law (or the dictionary) work. So I guess your mistake is that you don’t understand that.

Can we pass a law that it's OK to push someone down the escalator if they're just chillin' and not letting people walk by?

Quick sidebar: when did “savage” become a thing? It makes me... uncomfortable. I can’t hear it without wincing. Ongoing colonial legacies are real. That’s my grumpy sidebar for the evening. Get off my lawn and other such grumblings.

So a person whose mother is Mexican, and who father is white, can not consider themselves Hispanic? Where do you come up with that one?

I agree with this. As a white person with Cherokee ancestry (1/16 to be exact, and I do have the paperwork to prove it), I’ve never felt comfortable checking the Native box on a form. My mom (who doesn’t have any native ancestry) tried to pressure me into doing it when I was applying for college, but I resisted…

Right, usually that’s what we know, or think we know, what our families tell us. It was less than wise of Warren to repeat this without confirming it, even in her youth. But there is no indication that she deliberately lied.

Yeah, I grew up telling everyone and their dog that I was part Indian because my father whom I hadn’t seen since I was 4 was supposedly part Native American. I couldn’t for the life of me have told you which tribe. I stopped that shit when we started being more culturally sensitive, but I genuinely wouldn’t have seen…

I think there’s a lesson here for everyone. Unless you know...absolutely 100% for certain that you have Native American ancestors, don’t embarrass yourself by insisting you do. If if your grandma always insists that her great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, just nod and smile. She probably has no idea what she’s…

I keep thinking uggghhh if only Warren hadn’t glommed on to that tiny sliver of an incorrect notion that her family had native American heritage, and opened herself up to this.....but then I realize, nah, even if this little controversy didn’t exist, some other one would have been manufactured to take its place. So,…

“She’s not Native American, she’s not 1/32nd, she has no Native American background, except for what her family told her,”