Then you are a terrible father. It is a parent’s duty to teach their children the difference between right and wrong, not to cover up their crimes and let them believe there are no consequences to them destroying other people’s lives and hurting and abusing innocents.

I have 3 kids and I’d help any of them bury a body - that’s my job as a dad.

That’s all the son thinks he did wrong too. He blames binge drinking and sexual promiscuity. Wonder where he got that.

-merrie spaeth

Or people who don’t want to accept the very slight risk of being killed by an out-of-control plane at an airshow should just not attend airshows, and let everyone else continue to enjoy them.

I hate this mentality of banning everything that is even slightly unsafe. It’s why I never got to play dodgeball past 9th grade…

If only we had more awareness about guns in America

Racism is worse everywhere else. That’s a fact. We’re one of the most diverse countries in the world and we are always wrestling with these questions. Other countries just sweep it under the rug or have never had to deal with a multiracial society.

Stop making excuses for bullshit. If they could figure out how to license a rap song, they could figure out that racism exists and is bad. These ads were not made by naive 5-year-olds.

It’s not just those more obvious, notoriously xenophobic countries either. Pretty much everywhere that’s been touched by Western colonization maintains degrees of internalized racism, even those with majority POC populations. Whenever I travel with white friends to brown and black countries, and they’re always…

Hey, we haven’t elected Trump yet. You elected Italian Donald Trump - Silvio Burlusconi - multiple times.

yes.

I find it fascinating that I have a visceral, unconsciously disgusted reaction to the first one... and much less so to the second one. Perhaps it helps that the white guy looks pretty homely, dirty, and in poor shape compared to the african(-italian?) fellow in the first one. That is, in addition to "I'm turning this…

I naively thought he would just come out without paint all over him. Plus, the guy that went into the washer was WAY hotter than the guy that came out with that weird haircut and lipstick.

you know where’s more racist than here? everywhere else.

The more you travel, the more you see that racism is much worse in most parts of the world. The US is a racial utopia compared to Japan, Korea, China, Italy, middle east, many places in South America, etc. They are simply not bound by our social conventions and taboos.

Thank God for racist parity.

How old are you?? Do you not remember being 18? There are a lot of things I care about now that I did not back then. Your comment sounds really condescending.

I stopped reading after that.

Hey, self-awareness is powerful indeed. You would prefer that a person doesn’t grow over his/her lifetime and acknowledge that growth? I don’t think anyone is fully formed at 18, and those who do are typically 18 year olds.

It’s nice when people talk about how fiscally conservative their policies are and then when you point out that free birth control prevents expensive health care and welfare costs down the line, for people they don’t want reproducing anyway, or how free/cheap public housing for the homeless drives down spending for…