Jane Elliot asked this question of a room full of White people. She asked them to stand up if there was anyone in that room who would trade places with a Black person, and when no one stood up, she said that on some level then, they know how Black people are treated in this country, and don’t want that for themselves.

Hey, that’s my argument to the low-IQ crowd when they start talking about how slaves had it so good way back when (three squares a day, a place to live and sleep, great benefits, like getting ‘you up’ texts from the boss). They had it far better than free blacks and even a whole swath of whites!

When I was younger, I genuinely believed that I had never enjoyed any of the benefits of white privilege. I was poor, with no prospects, no hope of any far-off future inheritance, working demeaning jobs, living in crappy apartments, and so on. I would get fairly indignant at any suggestion that I was somehow the…

Interesting study: white gun owners actually suffer from economic anxiety, on top of the racial animosity that has quite obviously been there all along. On top of which, they tend not to be religious.

Zack Handlen = Neil Degrasse Tyson. He’s not necessarily wrong, but he’s spoiling the fun.
 

Yeah, I think years from now, this will be the Star Trek show that gets a fair deal of critical re-evaluation in its favor. One of the big criticisms about Trek TV in the 90s was how similar and stale Trek has become. Now comes a Trek series with some issues but “stale and safe” aren’t among them. You can never make…