I hate hate HATE Chip but I’m coming around about Joanna. And remember that rumor that Clint is in love with Jo? That’s my favorite thing to bring up when my mom watches this dumpster fire of a show.

If I end up married and my husband calls me “kiddo” and I call him “bud” I’m either blissfully happy or in a living hell.

Your last paragraph indicates that you need to do some more of your own homework before we can continue this discussion. I am not google.

No, I did not mean shame. I meant empathy, which is why I wrote...empathy. Children that young can’t yet differentiate between the two. She, in all likelihood, just felt generally bad. Which, again, is a totally natural reaction for a human being who hasn’t been brainwashed yet. It’s the parents’ job to guide that…

So many people today, when asked about MLK, simply know the “I Have a Dream” speech from the March on Washington, and not much else, other than that he was assassinated. Weirdly enough, this is probably because he has become, essentially, a saint in American culture - most people today have this image of “here’s this…

I agree. You just won’t get results by being politely disobedient. If the issue as serious as it is, and it is, you must get people to notice, understand and accept that something is wrong. But you can only really do that if you put people in a position where they have to see it face on and that requires a level of…

Everybody wants to reduce him to a colorblind slogan spewer, and erase his firm stands on racial justice, economic justice, and against war every January whatevereth.

Add the fourth word and I think fewer people would misunderstand the point.

This is the MLK I love. This was also the MLK that people hated at the time and forget about now.

I still think ‘progressive’ is a good term. Being open to changing beliefs based on good information has been a core tenet of progressives since the start, and being willing to make those arguments to other progressives is important too. In this case, the whole point of the Black Lives Matter movement is to move…

Ha, ha. The MLK “I have a dream” reference is priceless.

For quoting MLK a lot in their anguished letters, I think some of those Seattle parents forgot this passage from the Birmingham County Jail letter-- replace moderate with liberal, because that’s just the shifting goalposts since the Reagan Years:

She’s recognizing what her parents failed to recognize which is that white people in this country are afforded special rights precisely due to the circumstances of their birth. Otherwise known as ‘privilege.’

I will never cease to be impressed by the amount of racist white people who truly seem to believe that Martin Luthor King Jr., were he still alive, would be on their side.

Progressive carries too much baggage, and is on the path to being equally useless. Consociational is a good term but it’s got some baggage, mostly being associated with deeply divided systems like Lebanon. It has undertones of disunity, though the focus on recognizing social cleavages rather than shoving them under…

“Passive-progressiveness” now that’s a great turn of phrase.

Because that’s what *always* happens. Black people get painted as “too militant” so we can dismiss the legitimate grievances that made them militant in the first place.

Yea, I know a lot of people who cite nebulous ideas about “wanting the system to change” without any solid idea of what exactly that means, nor any real attempt to push for it.

Seriously. If, as a white person, you look at the slogan “Black Lives Matter” and think “Wait a minute! Why aren’t they talking about how much I matter!” Then you need to rethink a lot of things, starting with ways you benefit from white supremacy and ending somewhere around the “the world doesn’t revolve around you”…

Ten years ago or so I was volunteering for a tight congressional race in rural Louisiana. My team and I - two black guys, a white woman, and me (a white-looking Latino/Middle Eastern guy) were to canvas a white neighborhood late in the morning on a weekday. Park the car, and as we get out a pickup truck (with a…