oof, that stings.

I agree. In some sense we’ve made a ton of progress since then. The thoughts, opinions, and feelings of POCs aren’t automatically dismissed as irrelevant, and sometimes their views are even being considered valuable!

It fucking should be by now, but absolutely everything in the news for the last year has been and continues to be questioned by “conservative” morons, so here we are again...

Amen. Looks like it’s too late to dismiss his comment, but it was the absolute poster child for having and using that dismiss button/flag/whatever.

I just pitched in $15 for the same reason - fuck it. I’m impressed he even has a chance in a state as ruby-red as Alabama.

I think that’s a valid point, but there were (and i imagine still are) lots of exceptions. iirc some of the voice actors almost exclusively voice one or maybe a couple characters. They could have dealt w/ Apu like they did having Phil Hartman voice Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz. In any case, the important part is they…

That’s (almost) exactly where I get like 90% of my books! Where I live there are tons of these “Free Library” kiosk things around town - they typically have room for at least a couple dozen books. Are they frequently almost empty, or stocked w/ complete trash like Dean Koontz or Nora Roberts? Of course, but there are…

I think there are plenty of people - myself included - who would assure you that you have nothing to feel guilty about. “Gee, I could read Infinite Jest, or in the time that would take I could read 4 or 5 other ‘classics of literature’ and not feel like I got swindled. Tough call.” From what I read of it, it was fine,…

I’m guessing a lot of the Trump crowd actually is buying a lot of these trash books. But no, not reading them. Even pretentious “progressives” are guilty of this - how many copies of Infinite Jest and Gravity’s Rainbow sit unopened, just gathering dust, on bookshelves and coffee tables all across the country, just to…

yup to all of that.

YUP.

A few thoughts:

I never felt Apu...was the worst example of that.

Absolutely.

Kushner’s role at a foundation that funded Israeli settlements...

I know you directly replied to Jade and not me, but your comment started w/ “Okay, both Jade and Captain. Sit down, you really should have read the post, or at least most of it... [his ideas] come from a place of pain and from a PoC, you don’t get to ignore that.” So...

Holy fucking shit is right. I didn’t even make it that far - I read the first couple sentences, quickly scrolled down to see how ridiculously long his post was, and noped out. Clearly I made the right call; I waste plenty of my time on stupid shit, but everyone has their limits. I can at least recognize that life’s…

I have extremely limited experience working on campaigns (iirc, none strictly on congressional campaigns but two presidential campaigns and one city council campaigns for a total of three - count them: three - days, although I may be forgetting another day or two) and while I was never really sure who was in charge,…

Thanks! One more thing that seems so easy now, but...

In fairness, less than half of all voters here “voted the idiot in.” The Electoral College is terrible bla bla bla. (I mean it truly is, and extremely hard to get rid of, but the argument kinda dead ends there.)