Both of these ladies are giving me life this morning.

LOL. Did you just say someone using a logical fallacy is “still correct”? You know what a fallacy is, right? (And your “bu-bu-but the media” argument is horseshit also: http://www.vox.com/2015/11/16/974…)

Here ya go

It’s time to separate the free speech issue from the rest of this debate. Prejudice and marginalizing of ANY group is ALWAYS wrong. When large institutions do it, it’s particularily bad. It shpuld be stopped. Simple.

I’m super over the “you go to a competitive school be grateful for your scholarships and shut up” thing. I was medium annoyed by Occupy Harvard but ending up defending them all the time bc people’s anti-occupy arguments were “You’re on financial aid so you shouldn’t complain.”

I think what’s missing from this conversation is the context in which the email was sent- it is really really really weird for a house master to send that kind of email over a listserve. The role of the house master is to be apolitical quasi-parents who occasionally host students for social events in their house and…

Yes I did. And I will argue that the email reflects a rather insular narrative of childhood and the work of a scholar who is under read in the field of childhood studies or not interested in the most compelling research that would trouble the theoretical underpinnings of her reasoning. I am particularly aggrieved by…

Your move, Yalies.

Please continue to join me in praying for those who have suffered loss and for those who will never allow freedom to fade at the hands of terrorists.

you can always tip in cash

That’s totally incorrect. EVERY major city in Texas votes Democrat for most of their state-elected officials and in the presidential elections. And if you’d like to boil it down, Houston is immensely more diversified than Austin. You get culture when you visit Houston; you get drunk when you go to Austin.

Right? Gamergate’s entire reason for suggesting a panel was to counteract a panel about finding ways to make it harder for them to harass and threaten women. The fact that SXSW approved a panel that exists solely to say “Fuck you, cunts, we’ll dox you, threaten to rape and murder you, and try to drive you to commit…

But...but...THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE ANTI-HARASSMENT PANEL WAS THE ONE THREATENED! It could have been the anti-GG crowd threatening the GG panel! The anti-harassment group are the ones actually threatening people!

We should organize a GamerGate convention or something, where all the GamerGaters can get together and talk about how much they hate women and Jews and black people and Anita Sarkeesian love ethics in video game journalism.

That said, SXSW is a big tent and we strongly believe in showcasing a very diverse range of ideas and opinions, even if we as a staff don’t always agree with them.

I’m not questioning myself, I’m choosing to no longer associate with a label that other people caused to become insufferably toxic.

C.A. Pinkham, the New Yorker, a few months ago, ran a story about restaurant workers from China and their exploitation in the US.