I agree, we can’t let our feminist mirth over the fate of demonstrated sexist pig Tim Hunt convince us that MOB RULE is a good idea. Because sometimes the mob is GamerGate.

That’s the point with Seinfeld’s comment about not wanting to perform on college campuses. The failure mode of a joke is no longer silence, or an audience member leaving, or groans. The failure mode on campus is that if you tell a joke that doesn’t go over well, or god forbid offends someone, you’re now history’s…

It is all about demonstrating moral superiority and demonstrating how much more social aware you are than the next poster.

Well said. Everyone is just fine with the outrage machine until they find themselves on the other side of it after a momentary misstatement or God forbid, slightly veering off the demanded narrative on a particular subject.

I agree that it is a horrible flag that represents horrible things. I don’t know if you want to argue the treason point too hard though. As a former colony and extension of the British empire. Any US flag or earlier variation is a flag in small part that represents treason... Seeing how villainous and evil governments…

That, and how hard is it to prove that’s what happened? “The train was knocking me around, it’s this crazy who think’s I’m getting off on it.” Just seems like hours of studying and bickering over footage, debating whether it looked like a grind or legitimate stumble.

No, you gave yourself a painful neurological condition. Your smartphone is aa non-sentient object and cannot “give” you anything. It cannot make you do anything either.

More Rachel Dolezal, yeesh. Look, I apologize if someone else has made this same point but could someone explain to me how she’s any different from Caitlyn Jenner?

Uber drivers can be removed from the service by refusing too many rides or asking a passenger prior to arrival what their destination and refusing the ride based on the destination.

Sure, as long as you assume meeting any one of the criteria drives the decision and it always has to be in the ‘employer’s’ favor, you’re absolutely right. Fortunately for people who work, you’re not right. Look at criterion #1. How about #4. How about #6, given Uber’s long history of fucking over Lyft and trying to…

Except that Uber punishes drivers who don’t pick up a certain percentage of rides. They also restrict what kinds of vehicles you can use. There most recent compensation system lowers your pay if you don’t pick up enough rides. Those are the actions of an employer, not a contracting agency.

Those aren’t the only differences between contractor and employee. Who controls availability for work, location of work, and work schedule are big. As are (I believe) requirements/restrictions on types of tools/equipment (i.e., you can’t drive for Uber if you have a ‘77 Vega).

Great. People who work for Uber are employees of Uber now? F*ck, the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

In Sweden we don’t need warning labels for everything.

Just in case anyone doesn’t believe you:

So they gave her the job because they thought she was black, and not because she had a degree in black studies and had done extensive advocacy work on behalf of the community before that? GTFO.

Um, no. There weren’t any false pretenses. No application asked her her race, and shouldn’t ask anyone that. Her credentials were/are impeccable and so she got the job.

But hey, go burn her at the stake before she volunteers to mentor some black kids. And while you’re at it, maybe pillory Bruce Jenner too, because he…

She took “advantage” of a community’s faith? How, by becoming the head of the NAACP chapter and fighting for their rights, and advocating for their behalf? My gawd, what a horrible horrible monster. Burn her at the stake immediately.

None of this makes sense to me. So racist white people want to excuse this person just because she is white, even though she has completely rejected her whiteness? And everyone else condemns this woman because she is a typical white person highjacking and exploiting black culture? Seems to me she is (1) a liar, (2)…

it would be weird if a gawker media writer went to a HBCU because he liked rap music