Wow, you really addressed my comments with your arguments. (Eye roll you can see from space.)

I tell myself that I’ll be nicer on twitter, because I can be very mean there. And then I am for a while. And then I am super mean to some stranger and my cycle begins again.

Somebody just wrote a whole book about “White Fragility.” I read the review in the NYT. I will buy it and read it. And I know I will probably see so much of myself there. It’s going to be rough for me. Which is why I’ll be buying it next week, once I finish the novel I’m reading, and not this afternoon.

We are nowhere near being a minority, we just won’t be a majority in the foreseeable future. Not the same thing. We won’t be more than 50% of the population, but we will be the largest racial group for many more decades to come. Minority doesn’t mean oppressed, either. In South Africa whites were in the minority and…

You are right. As a white person, I have the privilege to pretend that race is not a big deal. Yet I have also been raised to believe (not just by family, not just by church, not just by school, not just by media) that white is “regular”: the default. And that is in me, deep. Despite practical segregation (the way…

I am dying to see this. It looks like a good, silly, but interesting romcom. And I enjoy a good romcom. (I feel like I should be backlit with a garbled voice when I say that.)

As a card carrying middle aged white woman, I am rarely asked for ID to use a credit card. It sometimes happens, usually in nonchain/independent stores. I always assume it is either a) a concession they had to make to the card company or b) they have been burned many times. It has never happened at a grocery store…

Julia Roberts game is (I think) hand and foot.

So, basically, Albrecht thought she could read the Herwees article, write another article based off it with no citation, doing no original work or interviews, and that is writing? I’m pretty sure it is not that easy, Albrecht...

Yes. In fact, I sat in on a middle school class where they were passing out a handout on what plagiarism is and is not. Including the information that you couldn’t just use a thesaurus to come up with new words. If you were “translating” an idea word for word (very for extremely, etc.) you were still plagiarizing.

You win, Shmata. You win.

You should see their cluster fuck of a summer home on Lake Michigan. It’s like a cottage that merged with a McMansion and birthed a castly explosion of white beach shack. Absolutely huge.

Best use of Be Best!

I’m going to imagine that there were other people around, but he picked these two black women. It was racist and maybe misogynist. I mean, he could have picked someone else. Someone white or someone male. But he picked them. And then was super calm afterward. Like he was proud.

I don’t live in the Waffle House zone, but I used to love to go anytime I was down south. Waffle House? I’m done with you. Your pecan waffles are delicious and I will never have another.

I think these folks assume that they are being racist for “their” fans. It’s when everyone else sees them being racist that it’s a problem. Just a guess. I thought the same thing with the gun piece. They wouldn’t go on NBC and talk about that, but thinking they’re being interviewed for some rarified right wing thing?…

They shoot black men. Kidding/not kidding.

My blood is boiling. It infuriates me that so many years later cops are still putting their heads in the sand (polite version) when it comes to rape.

Your tone, by the way, is perfect. Fuck these people. Fuck all of them. Crybaby Nazis.

These people are just trying to build up their media connections. Prolly hoping it will lead to some sweet, sweet CNN cash. Seriously, “I can only tell you, Andrea, I’m just tormented. I wish I could leave right now, but I just can’t. I took a vow, Andrea, an oath, even. I’m going to have to stay a little while…