I agree the class aspect was mentioned well. Just thought it was worth bringing up

BRITAIN'S BBC FOUR JESUS CHRIST HOW MANY TIMES.

And therein lies the problem. How can you even start to broach the topic of racism when so many people's sense of reality is so utterly distorted?

I don't know if you were talking to me, but I don't feel snarky about this woman, and tried very hard to avoid that tone. I think what's interesting about this is that it can only really be useful to the part of the population that has a very large problem understanding that Muslim people are their peers—it's nothing…

I think part of it is her degree of self-congratulation, and especially her decision to try darkening her skin. Empathy is a great thing, but she's rather tone-deaf to the issues at hand.

You don't get the snark against a white woman planning on donning brown face? How do basic things like this escape people like you? Serious question.

She kinda had me until the darkening her skin thing. You wanna wear a scarf? Wear a scarf. It's a scarf. Plenty of ladies wear scarves. But darkening your skin? Okay, no.

Ugh. Can this not degenerate into the Gawker comments section on this story.

When all of this went down I was about 12 and my response was basically, "what's the big deal?". They're both consenting adults, and also I thought oral sex was synonymous with phone sex.

I think this is a really great article. I am also suspect of "rescue brands" for the reasons you outlined.

Yeah that's my bad, sorry. I edited my comment to add the US thing then realized when I did a search for "US" tags that it turned up a main page of 99% Midweek Madness tabloid stories, virtually no news, so the comparison was irrelevant. Re-edited it out again to only include Ireland as I had originally posted.…

Um a mosque was burned down in Texas and 3 Muslims were killed in Chapel Hill last month...so uh yeah, we're not as far off as we should be.

Poor people are perennially punished in America. Politicians get elected by promising to further dis-empower and disenfranchise them because so many Americans are too denial-filled to recognize that they themselves are one step away from being just as poor. They've been brainwashed to believe that they're somehow…

Woah dude. In the USA maybe. In the UK? Nope. Grime has had mainstream visibility for a long time.

Wracked with guilt about our mistakes?

I don't think so. How many people got their name out, from that stage? Anyone whose profile got a lift from being there was already famous.

only in the usa, for consumers, really. grime is huge in the uk, and most international artists, especially hip hop/r&b/rap artist, know grime and are influenced by it. that kinda EDM vibe that's happening now in rap is defs bc of grime and the hip hop scene in the UK, even if they aren't featuring uk artists.

Eileengency has been going IN on anyone who doesn't think Patricia Arquette's speech was a gift from the Gods, excuse me, Goddesses. She has been defending her, so much, that she's using the same arguments about intersectinality that were said on Sunday, and now trying to turn it on a Black women's panel. Girl, git yo…

I had to go look it up and see if she deleted it... nope.. and this is Part 1. What the fucking what????

Woah.