So, he flirted with women and had some consensual sex with a few? I don’t feel outrage. Should I feel outrage?

Yeah like the Javert dress. That’s not sexist at all, that was just a bad dress. Everyone’s worn something terrible in their life, but rich people tend to be the ones with the most widely distributed evidence of it. Hey, we hit Donnie too cause his suits don’t fit!

could not agree more. Conway and Tami Lohrer (sp?) are repugnant for MANY reasons, none of which have to do with their looks, sex, and/or gender. There are more than enough factual, evidence-based things to drag them about without resorting to gendered insults.

I think we “owe” it to her not to criticize her based on her physical looks. She is a morally repellent sycophant who is trying to put a veneer of normalcy on a madman; that is enough to comment on without resorting to using patriarchal beauty standards against her.

IMO, it’s the power imbalance that makes it hilariously petty and undermines Lonergan’s response. The student’s piece is fully what I expected from a college newspaper taking on a big social commentary story, but I expect waaaaaaaay more from a fully-grown man who just won an Oscar. I expect him not to attempt to…

Hollywood

Roger Stone’s house?

When someone brings up PC-culture as a refutation, it’s always the final square of Asshole Bingo. His refutation points more to the fact that he’s totes okay with Affleck because he doesn’t see anything wrong with behaving like Affleck, than to whatever point he was trying to make (we’re all so mean? I dunno).

PC-fueled sense of indignation

If Casey Affleck can’t feel safe reading college newspapers, where can he feel safe?

The issue of prison labor isn’t limited to immigration detention, but the legal issues are very different, because immigration detainees haven’t been convicted of any crime.

Why, the affrontery! Are you impugning his honor?

And then, in order not to pay federal income tax, the Private prison companies registered/rebranded themselves as Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Very important also to note that MANY of the people detained in immigration detention centers like this are people with green cards, NOT undocumented individuals.

And a very large portion of that portion probably call themselves “Christians”.

The irony being that some of them may have been ‘busted’ in their paltry paid jobs only to become indentured labor in this prison system. You’re prohibited from working — except for us.

Unfortunately we have a not insignificant portion of the population that thinks this treatment is a-ok because these people are undocumented.

Fantastic news. These private prisons make bank off of forcing people to “voluntarily” work for them. Really excited to see that this suit has gone forward.

Just a reminder that people who are being held in immigration detention centers are not being punished for crimes, but these centers are nonetheless run very much like prisons. I think the operators may not always understand the Constitutional significance of the fact that these people are not criminal prisoners.