I think it’s a huge and illogical leap to assume Clinton’s behind this. She could have just requested a recount herself. The fact that she is now playing along also suggests that she didn’t put Stein up to it, because if so, by not including a word of criticism, she’s now negated the reason for not just doing it…

I will say there is something to this. But I think it is most useful when a real symmetry is not necessarily implied. There is a reason why, say, a black person critiquing whiteness is not the same as a white person critiquing blackness. The idea that people may not grasp that, and therefore might think we are…

I will append: the most productive thing to do in many situations when someone is speaking or acting problematically is to say something helpful that can open an illuminating conversation, and that’s an obligation if you aren’t one of those being targeted, IMO.

I went back and re-read the post and my reply and I can see why you would have thought I was being a lot broader than I thought in my response. But I specifically targeted the idea that “any speech” needs to be defended, as argued in the final paragraph of the original comment. Not “any”. Not speech that violates…

You need to go look up the term “bigot”. I don’t discuss shit with people who are operating in bad faith. Life is too short. I didn’t call you names; don’t act like a douchenozzle and then expect people to be interested in what you have to say. What’s really funny here is I am an anti-authoritarian talking about the…

Lol. I don’t discuss anything with people who use the term “SJW”. And if you don’t think a swastika invokes fascism, you are tripping balls. I didn’t use that example by accident. Good day.

Look, I get where you’re coming from — in just about any other context I would be the guy urging that everyone hew as closely to not impeding speech as possible. But fascism is a different animal — it really is. It is the exception that proves the rule. And if you think suppressing fascism is fascist, it might help if…

Hate speech is *already* not protected, along with “fighting words” and “shouting fire in a theater that’s not on fire”. There may be other examples as well. Speech that harms others’ rights, basically. There is a body of existing jurisprudence that draws this line and it comes nowhere near threatening the right to…

It’s not fascist to oppose fascism. Sorry.

“Free speech” is like “free market” — a decent enough guiding principle, but for devils in the details. There’s nothing censorious about being unwilling to entertain hate. The idea that any form of speech should be defended is morally bankrupt and completely untenable in any civilized society. There’s a swastika in a…

CBS News reports and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed on Twitter that the incident was not an “officer-involved” shooting.

I agree with you but I also think voting for Nader was really dumb and it’s true to say that if people hadn’t done that dumb thing, Gore would have won.

When I look for the white moderate in this election I see the people who are not revolted and actively alarmed by the material threat that Trump and his followers obviously present to people of color in this country. For those folks, many of whom believe themselves not to be racist, the reaction seems to me proof…

Historians and theologians may both be scholars, but their documentation should not be equated.

Dogma was definitely protested by Christian groups.

I feel like if you called an Overwatch character “White Jesus”, a lot of white Christians would get pretty mad at the implication and I would lol

This is an excellent point. There’s been a lot written lately about how the Republican base is a mostly-unified front, while Democrats are supported by a multifacted coalition of issue groups. An under-appreciated result of that fact is that Republicans are much easier to maneuver. The centralization of their concerns…

The headline is factually accurate. Y’all are the ones who are projecting your assumptions about abortion, and then asking Jia to be accountable for them. ALL abortions happen for a specific reason. Her response to the comment above is entirely appropriate.

It was available and accessible, sure — to a relatively small percentage of people.

I’m pretty sure Team Fortress originated during the Quake days, rather than the Half-Life era.