Because saying “this is a learning moment for me” turns the conversation away from the subject - the abuse of another person - and makes it about them and thus the center of the story. The victim loses agency and presence and is a tool in the abuser’s story of how they weren’t that bad because they just didn’t know!

Exactly.

This has been a lifelong philosophy of mine. I respect the players who kneeled, but seriously, fuck the sportsball industrial complex.

NFL players should strike over this egregious overreach and control of their freedom of speech.

I don’t know about y’all, but I am so over the “This is a learning moment for me!” lightbulb moment when men get called out on their bullshit.

Hot Take: I always thought this show was over-rated and got progressively worse with time. Walter was the best part of the show.

Hopefully Groening avoids racial stereotypes this time around.

Well stated, Dwayne.

I hope shaving cream pies. Pies are hard work (usually delicious) and should not be wasted on a soul-less stalk of hate-wheat like Coulter.

There are thousands, THOUSANDS of untold stories of the victims of bullies who don’t decide to wake up one morning and bring a gun to school and murder dozens of their classmates. I was a misfit highschool junior when Columbine happened, and all that rhetoric did was make me a target to administrators, gym teachers…

Today, I had to be at my four year old’s class and saw him run over and throw his arms around a female classmate to give her a hug. I pulled him back and said, “no physical contact, and you ASK before you hug ANYONE.”

Pink the person is not punk either.

Hey y’all, good list but let’s not forget that Danzig went all Trumpy and also said that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t sell baby parts. I suggest we replace it with this:

Yeah, if there is anyone to wish a colostomy bag on it’s Trump.