Clearly you're not wanking right.

Tell her what? And who names their kid 'Hello'?

Yeah, my Hindu relatives would flip a shit if they heard you say that.

I don't know, I'm pretty convinced that he's a true believer. It's just that he reminds me so much of my older racist relatives.

I think that it plays into people's interest in individualism. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a huge mix of ethnicity, and I'm really interested in my background. Ideally, in what America should be (even if Trump doesn't see it), having a diverse background shouldn't preclude being American. Some people (like me) see the…

As an anthropologist, there's a long and a short answer to this question. The short answer is no, and the long answer is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

When I interviewed at a college in Ireland and asked about on-campus diversity, I literally got that same answer.

Ah, my family is from Hamilton. Never been to London, but I'm sure it's pretty nice :)

Look, I disagree with the people on the left who sat out this election in terms of political beliefs, but I've never suggested that they're violent or even remotely comparable to the KKK or neo-Nazis. I know that I've never suggested that because I don't believe it.

South Western Ontario? You wouldn't happen to live near Hamilton, would you?

I'm a lifelong volunteer in the Democratic Party and I've been strongly involved in a number of more or less mainline Democratic organization over the past eight month. I'll admit that I wouldn't consider myself a 'neolib centrist', but then again you probably would. Anyway, the point is that I've literally never…

Yeah, I don't want these statues on pedestals in public squares, but they are enough of our history that I would actually like to see them in museums. Just, properly contextualized. But as an anthropologist, I've just been trained to view the destruction of material culture in any form as heinous, sort of like…

I think that all of that is entirely fair to point out. And in case it wasn't clear in my earlier post, I spend a lot of time in Canada and have pretty close personal connections to it, so I feel like I can make those observations out of a sense of genuine kinship with the place.

Yeah, I have a lot of family in Canada, and I really love it there, but I think Canadians tend to underestimate how their country isn't free from that stuff. In a weird way I find Canadians to be extremely jingoistic and nationalistic, even the really liberal ones. It's not meant as a criticism; Americans are the…

That's more because it became uneconomical for Europe though. It seems hard to defend the systems that they put in place to replace slavery. I mean, seriously, what was India or the Belgian Congo if not slavery by a different name?

Well, also the British got tired of murdering a shit ton of people to keep their empire intact.

What aggravates me is that Kamala Harris isn't even a moderate. She refused to support the Obama Administration's prosecution of subprime mortgages because she thought he was being too lenient. Instead she brought the suit herself on behalf of California and got a $25 billion dollar settlement, which was one of the…

Honestly, and I'm speaking as a minority myself here, at this point Republican control of partisan redistricting has leaned so heavily on voting patterns that parallel racial demographics that non-partisan redistricting would probably give us fairer and more representative voting blocs.

Honestly, the best thing you can do would be to raise your kids right so that they do better than we did. Which since you seem like a decent person, I imagine you're already doing.

But all the dates she has to go on!