She herself defined it as stealing in her article, right before she twisted herself into circles excusing it. I’m taking her at her word.

Well, we’re clicking, and linking, and talking about it. She brings them eyeballs and $$$ so bring on the crappy opinions, I guess.

Sorry, Bari, you lost me at “Stealing is wrong, but.”

That posing in front of piles of goods chaps my hide because 1), it’s clearly staged to show How Generous I Am, See? and 2) I’m thinking of all the devastated people those goods could be helping right now if they weren’t sitting around a lobby for a photo op instead of actually being distributed out.

Yes, that is precisely my point, although I will acknowledge that I shifted the subject slightly from “incorrect phonetic spellings” to “use of incorrect words as well”.

Don’t get me started on the “psych/sike” situation, or “hoard/horde”. One of the more persistent ones is “reign/rein”. I even saw an article on the Giz sites a day or so ago that legitimately printed “takes the reigns”.

This. Also, what qualifies Breitbart in any way as “news”?

I completely forgot about that. I think I deliberately wiped that from my mind. I experienced a full body shudder reading it again. Given the two sources, I’m going to go with “yeah, I believe her mother.”

Right? The reason she’ll “long be remembered by all” is not going to paint him in any kind of flattering color. Only a brainless idiot would use this kind of fatuous, empty praise as if her death meant nothing to him or his situation.

45 can’t bring himself to mention any woman, even a murdered one, without framing it around whether he finds her attractive or not.

This. My first thought was “sure, they’re not employees now.”

Pramila’s my rep, too, and I’m delighted she’s getting down in the trenches and fighting back almost every step of the way. Freshman fighter, and I hope we continue to see a whole lot more of this. She’s awesome.

Thank you for articulating so eloquently what I couldn’t quite figure out how to say. That’s precisely my concern as well; it would be very easy to simply overlook so many of the undertones that make the book so good and so subversive for its time.

There’s a whole host of apologists in the greys with the “but nobody used anesthesia then” and “product of his time” and nope. Not today.

Your chosen quoted passage literally says “yes, black people were abused. But that’s no excuse for them not to go ahead and do it, because the end result justifies the means.”

30 surgeries. Without any anesthesia.

I love Dorian Gray, but my feelings about this are mixed.

The only compliments he’s capable of are the ones where he’s basically complimenting himself or his own taste.

Clearly you don’t, either. Have you seen how many laws Texas has passed in the last few years limiting women’s access to necessary medical procedures? Texas did a decent thing about Nazis recently. Okay. So? This, right here, is “whataboutism” or at best, “an attempt to derail the conversation and/or silence it.”

The US: “This week has been the worst.”