Do you not watch the news? Michael Brown, Eric Garner, etc. There’s been a lot of publicity to race issues in the last few years. Honestly, I’m inclined toward the interpretation where we just weren’t hearing about it before, rather than that it’s getting worse.

Insane Clown Posse’s followed a strategy not too dissimilar to what you’re describing. in before Fucking magnets

The simple answer is talk to the actual Hispanic people involved, especially if you know some of them individually, and see what they think. Given how much “speak English or go home” crap they probably get, maybe they’d be stoked. Or maybe they’ll think it’s weird. Or most likely there’ll be different reactions to…

Dude, I think there’s a spectrum with the music scene. If you’re looking at someone like Clapton, probably gets a pass, given that he never pretended this stuff wasn’t someone else’s. We was an aficianado first of preexisting art. In the middle you’ve got someone like Elvis, who clearly made popular black music by…

Black people do pro sports because the educational and socioeconomic structures in our society make that desperate gamble look good compared to trying to get an education and find gainful employment over white racism. They know they’ll never be in the corporate boardroom or the stock exchange floor or at the forefront…

Where do you even start with her though? I mean, there’s a laundry list of questionable shit going on with her.

Pants were always a choice

I think he only has two songs anyone actually knows

Here’s a thought, then...under what conditions can descendants of colonizers assimilate rather than appropriate? I agree with your example about the bindi, but if let’s say, a white woman moved to or grew up in India, wore traditional Indian garb, learned to speak Gujarati well enough to conduct herself in it…

African American Vernacular English varieties are an established thing in descriptive sociolinguistic literature. They’ve been pretty heavily studied. Not every black person in the US speaks such a variety with fluency, and there’s probably some people that are not African American in any strict sense that do speak…

The power differential makes it different, dude. When we adopt black people’s shit, we do it as a novelty, even if it’s the only thing they’ve got that they can hang onto. When they adopt ours, it’s typically an attempt to assimilate to an overwhelmingly dominant culture.

Word. I had a friend grow up in a town called Warroad in Minnesota, and it’s called that because the Sioux used to come down that route to raid and burn Ojibwe villages, and the Ojibwe would sent retaliatory strikes the other way. The rest of the world’s history is just as brutal and violent. I don’t think we should…

Also relevant: the Absolute Boyfriend manga by Yuu Watase. For pretty formulaic Watase shoujo, it’s not bad.

If exposed wiring isn’t a turnoff maybe you can buy used.

Nigeria: It’s like Illinois, but African.

Is it masturbation if you’re not alone? I’m kind of curious about the possibility of remote operation. If you can use a drone to bomb someone in Pakistan, it doesn’t seem like it’d be impossible to use a drone to fuck somebody you’re physically separated from, either. People trying to make the long distance thing work…

I was more thinking Johnny Mnemonic data dumping his childhood. Can’t say I’ve seen Twin Peaks.

Yeah, I’m kind of surprised the Internets aren’t campaigning for Boxxy or something.

She hasn’t had much formal education. I mean, she’ll definitely be playing catch up. But “stupid” can largely be worked around with mental practice, discipline and retraining.

Lots of people start in pre-med. It’s not like the degree’s useless for everything except medical school.