Right. I have a genetic blood disorder. If it weren't for vaccines, I promise you I wouldn't have lived past childhood. The idea of having my own children terrifies me because, while they can be vaccinated, if they contracted any of these illnesses while they were too young to be vaccinated, the consequences would…

I do that. I do that with exes and with friends who I no longer wish to see. Not Scandinavian, though.

This is an important topic, but there were so many typos and grammatical errors in this piece I actually lost count of them. Sloppy work, Jez.

Usually I try to defend the South (I'm from the Appalachians). But I spent several hours last night trying to explain to a group of very angry people from my hometown that Paula Deen is in fact racist, and that whites are not on the receiving end of racism. In return for my efforts, I got told that I'm not as smart as…

I think it might be time to dump that motherfucker.

And unfortunately, rape kits can't always help survivors of attempted rape and molestation.

It was similar in my house (my parents are Christian fundamentalists). I'm not typically triggered by things I find on the Internet, despite my PTSD, but found this packet to be triggering as fuck. I spent too much of my childhood in a state of terror that any infraction would lead to a vicious spanking.

Well, I was a conservative when I entered college, though I'd recently become interested in feminism. My university had a reputation for being among the more reasonable Christian colleges; that turned out to be false, but I had no way to know that before I actually started class.

Yeah. You really, really don't understand what it's like to grow up in this subculture. We get completely isolated from the mainstream world. It's borderline cultish. An eighteen year old who's grown up like this simply does not have life skills comparable to an eighteen year old who benefits from a more mainstream…

This is a pretty common scenario at Christian colleges. I attended a conservative Christian college in Ohio, and like most of my classmates, I'd been almost totally sheltered for my entire life. I had exactly zero life experience outside right-wing Christianity and as a result, I had little idea of who I was, or even…

Please read some bell hooks and then get back to us on the subject of white supremacy.

Exactly. He was basically an IT guy with a GED.

Yeah, except that's not actually what happened, if you read the information he's leaked so far. There have always been restrictions on the personal data the government is permitted to collect on American citizens. Those restrictions can be waived, but there is a legal process in place for this. The Big Bad is not…

I don't think that concern is, by itself, culturally insensitive. But it is important to remember there's a colonialist narrative at work in the media's portrayal of India and Indian men.

I think he's got a Messiah complex, personally.

Hero is a bit...strong. So is traitor, for that matter. But I'm leery of all the hero worship I'm seeing.

Well, aren't you just precious?

Yeah. Because all Haredi men everywhere marry little girls.

Your generalizations are what make you a bigot.

Comparing Haredi Jews to the followers of Koresh and Jones just makes you look like an asshole. Think it's an irrational belief system? Fine. So do I. I got raised by (Christian) fundamentalists and I left for this reason. Do I now have the right to bash religion? Nope. Not even Christianity. And especially not a…

No, actually, not a dipshit. This article stated most protesters are secular, which is a massive generalization. There is a difference between being a secularist and being a Muslim who supports secular government; this article didn't make that distinction.

Yes, I'm extremely familiar with Turkey's cultural and…