This is a bad opinion.

If you’ve really been that super involved in anti-racism work, you should probably be more familiar with the idea that we are all passively complicit in systemic white supremacy. Nobody is immune. And white people—ALL white people—benefit from the violence that white supremacy perpetuates, regardless of whether we…

She’s not backpedaling. She’s saying “yes, all white people,” in the sense that all white people have been complicit, on some level, in the violence that white supremacy does. She’s saying that “most” white people don’t acknowledge it.

I’m more and more suspicious of Google/Amazon/Facebook these days. I dearly hope our monopoly and antitrust laws can keep up.

I vote for calling this a “covfefe klatsch.”

Right, because apple juice isn’t sugary enough already!

Yeah. The man is barely human.

The website calls them “pastry/cookie cutters.” British people sometimes use “cookie” to refer to thicker, softer, chunkier cookies/biscuits. (Also, a “biscuit cutter” is also the name of a carpentry tool.)

Yep. Ironing seems like a stupid way to “clean” clothes. If you’re worried about things wearing out, wash in cold water and air-dry. Or if you can’t air-dry, use the coolest, gentlest dryer setting.

Swimmers shaving their body hair doesn’t rob their spouses of the opportunity to have the legacy of their family name carried on. The stakes are not exactly comparable.

Maybe. I think when you’re talking about US culture, where whiteness is so dominant, there are a lot of reasons why someone with non-European heritage would want to make sure to maintain and reinforce that for their kids in various ways, regardless of parental resemblance. We could also take the letter-writer at their…

This is already a common compromise, and it’s almost always the mother’s surname that gets the middle name slot, and that gets used practically never, unless you’re willing to be the kind of persistent and obnoxious person that freely corrects people every time someone omits one of the names.

What?? You’re COUSINS. Even if everyone had the traditional family name structures, cousins would only have matching surnames HALF the time. Like, if your grandfather had a son and a daughter, and they each grew up and got married and had kids, and both families followed the traditional…

Non-traditional family name situations are pretty common at this point.

If giving the kid the father’s last name is actually a deciding factor in whether the dude abandons his partner and child, then good fucking riddance. There are lots of traditions and cultural attitudes that don’t make any fucking sense in 2017, and this is one of them.

My partner feels strongly about passing on his last name and thinks his heritage/history/family tie is important and wonders how people will recognize us as a family unit if we all have different last names.

For certain definitions of “palatable,” maybe, yeah.

I can’t speak to what OP is saying, but from what I understand, a lot of white nationalists don’t consider people of color inferior (or, more accurately, they DO consider PoC inferior, they’ve just figured out that it’s a bad idea to come out and say so). Instead, they insist that they want a white-only nation because…

A close second. Tied with the excellent journalism and wry commentary.

It looks like all the letters are dancing the Charleston at a swanky Art Deco Club