I don’t understand the NAACP person referring to “racist undertones”. Calling a black person an ape....that is as blatantly and overtly racist as it gets. I’m baffled.

If you refer to a black person as an “ape” there is no way in HELL you are not being racist.

Oh come now, everyone knows Hitler drank. His favourite beverage was jewce.....

Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes:

jesus christ, did NONE of them watch The West Wing? I’m Canadian and I knew that.

“ Trump’s team had (as of Wednesday) literally no pages”

President Samuel L. Jackson.

Huh. Not the usual kind of hot water we see college athletes getting themselves into these days.

It’s all kinds of batshit. Electoral college votes are due at the end of December, but there is apparently no legal penalty if states just don’t do that by the deadline. And then assuming they’re turned in, the votes are actually counted and certified in January (I can’t recall whether it changes every time, but it’s…

#california secession

For what it’s worth I appreciate what you said. I don’t understand why everyone’s jumping down your throat, you were just trying to help. We can’t turn on each other now.

Maybe someone should tell him that Japan raped and massacred more people in Nanking than the US killed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together.

he realized that cars were not invented in america and everything went fine after that

I disagree with all of the replies you've gotten so far.

The first thing I'll say is I thought this was a very nuanced, conflicted piece that wasn't so much shaming "good white people" as it was expressing Ms. Bennett's ambivalence toward allies who have no frame of reference for her actual experience.

"Your essay makes me uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how to help or be an ally."

This is a thought provoking piece of writing, and people are trying to share those thoughts. How are you helping the situation? You're just bringing hostility where none is needed. His point is that real "Goodness" transcends race and you're dismissing his right to speak in a open forum? Is it because he is white…

You're not outraged enough. You're too outraged. Your outrage outrages me. You're part of the problem. You're missing the point. You're helping wrong. It's not about you!! How can you not see that?!

Just because something is about a specific group of people doesn't mean that people who are not part of the specific group can't express empathy/sympathy/support/grief about that something. Why would you ban them from expressing those feelings?