With this whole Nazi shit I have see a few Facebooks memes from his supporters along the lines of “Now everyone has stopped talking about Russia and is talking about Nazis, obviously Russia was just fake news!” No....just because his new outrageous thing has made us forget about the outrageous thing from last week…
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I didn’t realize it until this post either.
As a white American, I have to say that I am always more conscious of someone being black than being another minority. Not in a “I’m scared of a black person”, but in a weird noticing “that person is black”. Doesn’t apply to people I know or see on a regular basis, but so much of the national narrative is black vs.…
As long as the police is on board with keeping the two sides separate, which I think was a big failure in Charlottesville.
Yeah, I come from very blue blood Boston on my dad’s side. I’ve never heard a bad word about black people, but don’t get them started on the Irish Catholics running the police department or city hall. There of course is the typical limousine liberal racism in the wealthy suburbs, but the really virulent stuff was…
Dude, where did you come from originally? I am from Boston originally and now have been bouncing around rural New England (after several countries and other cities). All we have here are classic rock stations. Boston at least has some college stations and hip hop.
The political cowardice/convenience that caused the Republicans to pretend there is no right wing domestic terrorism certainly has something to do with it.
As this site points out frequently, the real issue is ingrained white supremacy. Sure, back in the 40s and 50s it was the KKK, but the neo nazi skinheads in the 80s weren’t the issue preventing progress in this country. I don’t know what dirtbike did or did not do, or is or is not doing, but acting like violently…
The were violent street battles with the Communists and the Nazis were banned and arrested at various points. Obviously something different should have been done and there were plenty of people who didn’t take them seriously enough until it was too late, but to simplify it to say people were basically ignoring them…
While this is all true in general, I think the most obvious difference between here and Germany is that Nazi Germany was defeated by other countries, and the post-war era was controlled by other countries, who conceived of Germany solely as enemies. The US was a civil war. In essence, the backlash during…
I think I accidentally gave my Aryan 3-year-old this hair cut. I am not very good with clippers and scissors.
When my friends and I were in high school and wanted to play a prank, we painted the school windows with flowers and animals. In washable paint. We were total nerds, but we definitely understood how not to be an asshole. 13-year-old boys might not understand the line between being transgressive-funny and…
Yeah, my college friend who has descended into racist, thin blue line territory had a dad who was a cop and now basically only interacts with other cops on social media. He seemed normal in our very liberal university, but the self-reinforcing bubble he is in is scary.
I do see a difference between the two pull quotes at least. The way VF summarized it implies Srey Moch was selected because she cries so well, whereas the transcript shows she was selected because she lied so well because the game was about lying as opposed to crying. I think we can still debate the ethics of making…
I love okra, but cooked greens are awful. I love baby kale salad, and sautéed baby kale or spinach, but boiled....gag.
Depends what you mean by “protect themselves”. I don’t think there is a single white person who doesn’t harbor some sort of subconscious bias about black people, but speaking from experience, I am white and I don’t think I have ever personally heard a racial slur or know someone I think would beat up black people for…
I sometimes have weird dissociative feelings, but I am not sure if it is due to depression or anxiety or some other disorder. This feeling of not being totally in my body switches on and off. I am a huge procrastinator, spacey and disorganized, but I think it is more depression-related.
I mean, it is very possible that he is just an asshole. But I also think it is unfair to expect him to parent the kids when he doesn’t want to, and leaving them with the mother sounds like it would basically be making him do most of the work. Hard to tell one way or the other without more details.
I thought it was a bit slow, but yes, George R. R. Martin should take note that sometimes you just need to get your characters where they are supposed to be in the end.