The Southern Poverty Law Center and FBI disagree with your statement. Hate crimes against American Jews has shot up in recent years, while thankfully anti-Muslim hate crimes have gone down.

I like Nick and I wish him well in reacquiring his intellectual property— also big ups for earning the degree at Howard— but he was better off talking about sports or sharing vegetarian recipes. As far as what was “discussed”: (sigh). There are plenty of books whose contents are wholly ruinous in their content. “The…

Allow me to introduce you to one of many brilliantly useful yiddish words. Today, our word is ‘shonda’, which, literally, means ‘disgrace’ or ‘shame’. And you can certainly use it just as that, but more exactly, it’s usually used in the phrase ‘shonda far di goyim’, “A disgrace in front of the gentiles.” And THAT is…

I’ve been a little active, attending a couple of events with my friend’s progressive party, and I went to a Juneteenth celebration last Friday to support my relative who organized it in a pretty white town. (Had a couple of sad racists in pickups drive by honking and flying blue lives flags of course.)

As a card carry white guy, let me offer a slightly different spin on your unassailable conclusions. I too have seen the newly found shock and horror on my friends faces, as they have come to grips with the obvious. What is hard to appreciate, I suspect, for any POC is the amount of energy that it has taken to pierce…

Congress can’t fix all the issues; but they can do some things. First, add funds to the DoJ, and insist they resume pursuit of civil rights violations by police. A practice Trump has effectively ended. And also have them enforce the following:

You nailed it.

The saddest part is how many murdered Black people and uprisings didn’t even make this list.

Yup, that’s all true. Accountability and oversight can work wonders to expose and isolate bad actors in the police departments rather than shielding and enabling them. I’d also abolish police unions (and more generally, all public employee unions) because they do nothing but empower the police to feel above the law.

The legal system grants near full immunity on cops no-knocks, no-video recorded raids, and racist DA and prosecutors deliberately mishandle the prosecution.

I like that President Obama’s mere presence and commentary makes the orange dump rage...I imagine what itd be like if suddenly people started sending him a barrage of 24/7 tweets about how much they love and miss President Obama just to raise his BP to stroke and heart attack levels...hehehe

When I toured the White House in 2010, the portraits were arranged by popularity. I imagined Michelle was in charge of decorated it. We walked into the visitor entrance, and right away was the “Jeopardy trivia” presidents, like William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison and Millard Fillmore. Then as we walked towards…

“I don’t care about black-on-black crime.”

... but reality is that the direction we’re heading in, where more people have more guns, more extreme viewpoints, and more tolerance for that kind of display, is not a good one.

You have no ground to stand on. Those “protesters” were no better than terrorists. Multiple participants have actively threatened violence against politicians, and have made it very clear that this was a “warning” to the governor and Michigan lawmakers. Using force and the threat of violence - implicit or explicit -…

Not a snowflake and not a cracker, but reality is that the direction we’re heading in, where more people have more guns, more extreme viewpoints, and more tolerance for that kind of display, is not a good one. White people are driving this 100%, but it’s still a minority of crazy assholes who are getting outsize…

doctor stranglelove? ok, this is a serious article that warrants a serious punishment and that guy needs to be in jail for assault and battery, but that one was amazing.

My uncle schooled me in Spades years ago and whenever we’d meet up we’d run roughshod over anyone we played. Good times. Years pass and he found his calling, found the Lord and that was the end of his playing days. So I thought. He took over a church after the residing pastor retired and I went up to redo his AV set…

“Perhaps this is why Clarence Thomas and other white people . . . .”

Graeme Wood in the Atlantic this morning made the excellent point that this is a deliberate attempt to get the country arguing about whether Trump is really a racist so that he can deflect attention from just how badly he fucked up the pandemic response.