lol,sure. i was talking about reality tv shows when i asked you that question. ah-no. your comment just really irked me bc i’m like all you have to do is talk about it—we poc have to live it— so why are you complaining about our less than pleasant reactions? don’t we have a right to express our anger and frustration?…

Don’t invent non-human colored people to prove how not racist you are.

On the one hand, yay. It is purely a symbol of hate. That’s the heritage it represents: Our unbroken and ongoing history of white racism. Pull it down, burn it, and start on all the state flags that celebrate the Confederacy. And the streets, towns, monuments, schools, and everything else that celebrates both the…

The whole way Israel insists on keeping a Jewish majority is racist as hell. The way they treat Ethiopian Jews is racist as hell. The way they treat Arab Israelis is racist as hell.

No.

The shooter was 21 years old. As much fun as it is to say all the racist/sexist/homophobic etc etc problems in our society can be solved by simply waiting for all our Olds to die off, these mentalities are very much alive and well in people our age and younger, as this man demonstrates.

This problem can’t be solved by…

Definitely not older than 65. I’ve seen it from several people in their late 20’s on facebook.

Also, Ghandi hated black people. I’m not sure how appropriate it is to quote him when talking about the cost of racism against black people.

I do love it when white people cherry pick quotes from people of color to tell them how they aught to react to their own oppression. Although I disagree with the concept of violent retribution, you can get bent with this nonsense.

Race war? How old are you? Do you think that somehow this one act of violent racism could have been the trigger to suddenly start racism as if there isn’t daily interpersonal and systematic racism, as well as a long history of racial violence against black people? Perhaps you speak from the side of the nation that…

And that’s fine, but read some of the comments. No one is really giving her the benefit of the doubt. Nope, just going to “Ugh, stop”. We can recognize she misspoke or, rather, she’s speaking to a very particular set of women whose personal experience aligns with her (and these are typically women who don’t identify…

If only you guys were this critical when Emma Watson or Taylor Swift or some other white girl was saying stuff about feminism.

See, I’m not ~completely~ sure that you’re reading well at all, boo.

Right? My first thought was “yup, totally agree with her.” My second though was “she’s gonna get so much shit for that.” And here we are, proving her point. There’s an entire thread in this comment section that’s just rehashing the old “why is she famous anyway” argument. Naturally, the responses vary from “because…

What does the wage gap or support for working mothers have to do with the price of tea in a conversation about how victim-blaming and slut-shaming got her to see the continued relevance of feminism? You’re decontextualizing her quote so that you can justify giving her a hard time.

Yes, what you said.

This is exactly what she was talking about. It’s not good enough that she’s championing feminism publicly, she dares to point out that women are often the biggest enforcers of gender roles and patriarchal values, so fuck her.

Fuck you. He is a white-fucking-supremacist. Mental illness doesn’t make someone racist and carry out anti-black murders. Most people with mental illnesses don’t even fucking kill people.

The way to do something about this shit is to talk to OTHER WHITE PEOPLE. Tell your racist-ass aunt or uncle to shut the fuck up. Call out racism when you see it perpetrated by other white people. Let them know that their behavior is unacceptable, even and especially around other white people.

The whole "Oh no as a…

Because the important people are puppets. If you read President Obama’s comments, Hillary Clinton’s, Republicans from Ted Cruz’s to John Boehner, they are the same comments that have been said after every domestic tragedy since 9/11. No frank talk about race, gun violence, poverty, mental illness, or anything, has…