I heartily agree. I am an ICU nurse of many years. I was a travel nurse as well and have worked at many hospitals across the country. I dealt with victims and perpetrators of cases involving adults and children, and listened to all manner of excuses why they did something, why something happened—all related to not…

Did they pay her on time and in accordance with labor laws? Did they require her to work a reasonable number of hours? Did they refrain from verbally or physically harassing her? Did they expect her to perform work reasonably within her job description, or offer to pay her extra for additional duties? It sounds like…

“She was jealous of their life and their money and that’s on her, not them.”

You obviously know this woman far more than I do. Unlike you, I don’t know her religion or her husband’s. I don’t know whether she’s been in Brooklyn all her life or moved there yesterday. You may not have experienced any harassment from certain Hassidic men but I went to school with many who had and they weren’t in…

Horrified? Yes.

“People are afraid to share their stories, because in the South so many of the same white families who owned these plantations are still running local government and big businesses”

No, I was disowned when I was 9 years old. New wife didn’t like sharing the attention and made him choose. I lost.

the nouveau white are getting zealous and becoming white supremacists. Partly to cement their white credentials

When my Jewish husband and I married, 39 years ago, I kept my maiden, waspy name for three reasons..the first was because I had been disowned by my father and still hoped he might want to find me, second was because it just seemed creepy to suddenly have a different last name..and the other reason was antisemitism.…

In the end you can’t eat love.

I treat all people equally.

I will answer you as I answered them:

Welp, it’s Monday, time for part of my childhood to die.

Yeah, it’s awful when people (who had their land and their way of life stolen) say things like “we have lost our land”, and it makes Christmas less fun for you. Your having less fun is the true crime, right?

My reservation has stories about girls murdered and the killer is never found. One of my cousin’s wife went to take care of her sister’s body a few weeks ago. They found her about six months ago but they didn’t identify her until a few weeks ago. They have no idea what killed her.

A Vox article claiming that we should follow Australia’s example of confiscating weapons is not the same thing as proposing legislation on the topic. From the article you linked to:

Ah, CPAC - the weekend that taxes Grindr to its limits.

They’re so small, he had to get a woman lawyer to help him pick up his marbles and go home.

“It’s always unwise to seek political advice for someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball.”

People’s resilience and ability to not be physically harmed by words is not a reason to perpetuate demeaning and hateful expressions, even if they’ve lost some of that ugliness over time. I get what you’re saying here (they’re only words, right?), but this concept of “people just shouldn’t take it the wrong way” is…