What’s with my skin folk and spitting on people? So gross!

Communism isn’t defined by those metrics. By that logic, the US is at least 2/3s the way to communism.

All rulings, laws, conventions, etc. have always been up for grabs. That’s how our system works. And if a single group makes a decades long effort to pack the courts with judges favorable to their positions, elect people who will pass laws that support their positions and nullify laws that don’t, they can more or less…

If you want to take this argument to the extreme conclusion, then we shouldn’t feed prisoners, because there are plenty of people outside of prison that can’t afford to eat. It has certainly been a phenomenon where destitute or homeless people will commit petty crimes just to get a roof over their head and food in…

Didn’t Malcolm X suggest that back in the day? I can’t remember which African country he mentioned did that, but I’m assuming it was South Africa.

Which one? That oppressed groups have historically and are currently not treated like equal human beings? Read any random non-pop-culture article on this site. Or that "dividers get to define what is divisive?" That's this article.

Why do the dividers get to define what is divisive? “Black/trans/etc. people are human beings, but haven’t been and currently aren’t treated like it” isn’t divisive. It's just a fact.

Yeahhhh, even qualifying for the Olympics is more than the whole lot of those trolls will ever accomplish in their entire lives combined. 

Used to be a Montessori Children’s House guide (aka preschool teacher) for a hot minute, and this has jack all to do with the method Montessori discovered. One of the central tenets of Montessori is to “follow the child,” and blackface is the antithesis of that. If you’re going to do a “cultural art activity,” which…

Wish intimidating claimants, particularly victims of sexual abuse, carried more of a punishment...

Indeed. I’m sure people a hell of a lot smarter than me have shown the economic problems with basically externalizing the cost of police brutality. If only those people who complain up and down how inefficient and wasteful the government is would turn their ire on the waste caused by these government employees.

Not sure if this falls into what you’re talking about, but fat-shaming's still pretty big, so maybe that'll go even more on the upswing. Or if things get really bad, handicapped people.

Was thinking the same thing!

Yeah, it sucks that the only realistic chance of even hoping to get legislation helping people of color is to use race-neutral criteria like “first-generation homeowner” that will statistically be overrepresented by people of color but also help out a significant portion of white people as well. But like you said,…

Even in the best case scenario, this person should be expected to have the social-historical awareness to put the sign literally anywhere else and be dragged for not showing it.

Public school lunches tend to be bottom tier slop, so plenty of children/parents would opt for bringing their own lunch even if everyone was offered it for free. No shade on school cafeteria workers, but they aren’t generally given good enough ingredients or training/expectations to make anything particularly inspired…

How do a few artists bring down a culture, much less a culture of millions? Cultures are multi-faceted. One of those facets can absolutely be (and always has been) “it’s ok to embrace and even flaunt your sexuality.”

Unfortunately, there will always be someone to take up the mantle of being a mouthpiece for humanity's worst impulses.

As a white guy who mostly has white friends, who are these “indoctrinated” white people that think “they are inherently born racist?” Only now are some decent proportion of us sorta-kinda realizing that we might benefit from white supremacy and can perpetuate it without intending to. Emphasis on “sorta-kinda.”

Literally all they needed to do was give the teens a citation and walk away. If they threw it away or gave ‘em lip, who cares? Giving a citation was all that was required. Unnecessary escalation needs to be harshly punished whether it leads to assault/murder of the suspect or not.