City arborist sounds like a very very very cool job and I bet your dad is awesome.

I’m not saying I’m not freaked out, but it’s disingenuous to make this about us when BLM and POC activists are the ones organizing and fighting back. Let me see Jewish orgs send bodies and money to fight these thugs in the streets.

100% this.

The accurate Confederate elements to be memorialized should be:

40% of children in the US are born outside of a traditional family unit, so you might want to take another look at your “like it is” telling.

Yeah, white people really don’t get enough recognition in the world. THAT’s the problem here.

Symone Sanders said this beautifully (also not replying to the gross troll who replied to you) but the truth is that we don’t need to cater to cis/het/white/males anymore, because it’s a lot harder to change 80,000 minds than it is to empower 80,000 POCs with opportunity and votes. This country is becoming less…

Uh, yes it is. White celebrity women and regular white women aren’t any different. You and your band of attention-seeking cookie-wanting morons just have to have your participation recognized despite pleas from POCs to stop putting your whiteness at the center of this and you just can’t help yourself, proving their…

You’re so fucking dense, I am amazed you’ve figured out a computer keyboard. The article talks about LET POC HAVE THEIR MOMENT but you’re defending again and fucking again your own view and need to have a word. Jesus Christ.

It’s not a great comparison, because political systems and democratic institutions are not structured the same across Latin America and certainly not how they’re venerated in the US. There are things that thrive in Venezuela or Chile that wouldn’t happen here because the US doesn’t function that way. That said, our…

He’s a shitstain from Queens and everyone in Queens and on LI knows and has always known exactly what he is and he knows it and it drives him batshit.

It’s not a surprise that instead of quietly listening and taking the topic to heart, white women are making a giant show of how They Aren’t Those White Women. But it’s disappointing.

You’re missing the entire damn point, as was the commenter. And you’re adding a #notall bullshit on top of it. Is there something biologically wrong with you that you are incapable of letting POC have a minute? Yeah, as Jews, this situation sucks but we are not at the forefront of the resistance like BLM is, so going…

WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH. I don’t need you to tell me about my life or how hard it is to be Jewish with a very Semitic first and last name. But black and POC people are being straight-up murdered right now. Shit’s on fire. I don’t need you white knighting for my people.

It’s 2017. We have access to education. You have access to black and POC voices right here that you are actively ignoring because you’re so hell-bent on including yourself and your needs. And then you have the audacity to explain why you’re right. This is too meta.

We don’t owe an oblivious, self-centered idiot our time, our coddling, or our attention. He’s not only an idiot, he’s an idiot who refuses to accept the words of POCs above his fee-fees. And I’m not entirely sure he isn’t full of shit and a fake troll. He derailed this entire article, proving the author’s point…

I’m sorry that you don’t understand what this article is about or how to stop derailing it. Here’s hoping you do some growing, some reading, and some reflection.

Does that mean I shouldn’t make you a Grateful Dead mixtape?

You seem really committed to asking people to do the intellectual work for you. I’m totally not surprised. Bye.

OMFG STFU. Stop derailing a fucking article that literally calls out derailing. Why are you so thick about this? There’s no wave of anti-semitism on Jez at all. What you’re conflating it with is anti-Zionism, which IS fairly popular on Jez. Jews are doing just fine in America. POCs are not. Again, you’re missing the…