Yeah...no. I, as a Black person, would not want my education money going towards protecting a person who thinks I am not fully human and should be treated as an inferior, enslaved, or killed. Differing political opinions are fine, but actual hate-group members? Nope. They can speak their views all they want but I…

It’s always been here, they’re just coming out from the shadows because their orange leader made it ok.

Nobody voted for Theresa May or Kim Campbell, but Margaret Thatcher won the 1979, 1983 and 1987 elections. Love her or hate her, she was the party leader at the time of the elections. People voted, for the most part, for her.

I vividly remember looking at this cover as a child, being mesmerized by the striking green eyes of the girl. I read about her a few years ago, when the photographer searched for her, to see if she had survived the brutal refugee camp. And he found that she had, and she had returned home, and was married with three…

And Australia - the way any and every ex-colony treats its indigenous population is horrific and unacceptable, but because they are on the margins of society and are too small a population to influence elections, politicians can dismiss them with few consequences.

As was pointed out last week , they didn’t even discuss climate change. native American issues are far down the list of priorities for any candidate

The treatment of Native Americans in the US, and in Canada and the rest of the Americas, is just absolutely shameful.

Actually, the US government can be blamed for the lousy regional governments, since it actively chooses and directs them, eg. the recent Honduran coup, interference in elections, US role in suppressing popular movements, US and US-supported institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, strong-arming them into accepting…

Or stop pressuring all the regional governments to roll over for multinationals. But Clinton would never do that.

Hillary is so brave.

I was going to say I’d stopped believing that when President Obama was elected in ‘08, but somebody downthread beat me to it.

Someone on the David Duke thread was just expressing disbelief that we have that many white supremacists left in the population.

That memorial has been riddled with bullets so much that it’s already had to be replaced once. You aren’t going down a dark path, you’re already on it. It’s just that now, for the first time, you got handed a flashlight.

Well you should be afraid. Trump is a symptom. Trump ain’t the disease.

A reminder: The United States continues to punish LGB people for “crimes against nature.” Although the Supreme Court ruled these laws unconstitutional in 2003, dozens of states never repealed/removed their laws. Police use local laws to arrest LGB people from their own homes. LGB people continue to be tried for the…

I’m with you! I wish the SNP would just absorb the left and become the opposition. They could rename themselves to “ANYTHINGBUTTHIS.”

since now we need to frame everything in the context of russia bc we’ve reentered the 1950s:

It seems like people object to using feminism to sell the makeup, from what I understand. Also that she cares about making money?

I feel like Adichie’s stance is less “women must wear make up to be beautiful” and more “if you as an individual enjoy wearing make up, that is fine and in no way incongruous with feminism.” And I feel like the argument that women should not wear make up is anti-feminist, because it’s dismissing individual’s autonomy…

Which needs to change, which is why we get offended by it. Bit like America with racism.