1. Critiquing an apartheid state is not anti-Semitism.

Some of it I can certainly see people taking legitimate issue with, but some of the quotes from her are just such so benign, I couldn’t believe people were getting upset over it. One in particular, she had said “You can’t tell the story of Islam in America without Nation of Islam,” and people were like “omg she…

They’re called gigs now and they come with no benefits or hope for advancement

no one wants to eat the rich when they look so unappetizing.

This whole “Sunday Service” bit seems a bit cultish. FFS he is building a commune.  

Bravo. Legend. The beguiled was my fave film the other year

“...it’s a price to pay for being hospitable.”

We live in a world where Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry and Bradley Cooper are the brightest minds of our age. Just think about that for a while.

How are the police supposed to do their jobs *and* attend the rally? 

Paul, can you please not use the words ‘the Left’ in common parlance when you’re writing about the U.S.? Or at least drape those words in quotation marks, to clearly indicate that someone else is pretending to point to a non-existent entity? When you glibly use that term, ascribe the Democratic Party with that tag, it…

Recent events reaction gif, I like it.

I did as much research as I was independently capable of when I first heard the argument. I am a high school educated ditch digger, so I know I am by no means expert, but I was able to come to these three conclusions:

I see a lot of people in this thread who don’t know the first fucking thing about the reality on the ground in the West Bank and have clearly never talked to a Palestinian about it. This thread is full of disgusting comments, racist trolls, and I’m sad to see it here.

Palestinians don’t get the luxury to “stop being political” because their identity is treated as fundamentally political and repressed. 

Remember when he supported banning Muslims from working in the meat-packing industry and he said, “I don’t want people doing my pork that won’t eat it.”

The WP has a good article about Talib’s grandmother:

The deal extended Iran’s breakout time—how long it would take Iran to build a nuke—from a few months to a year or more. The deal shuttered all but one of Iran’s enrichment facilities, restricted the enrichment lebel to below weapons grade, and put controls on the heavy water facility in Arak. Until only a few weeks…

A surefire way to spot someone who doesn’t recognize their own privilege is when they talk about politics as if it’s just some kind of academic debate that doesn’t matter. Even beyond the morality point you made, politics determines public policy and public policy affects, in particular, the lives of the LESS…

Israel must stop being a bad actor in the region, and the US must make clear that it’s either do these things or, at the very least, lose the subsidies of American taxpayers. All these things are only starting points.

Meanwhile Bari Weiss is preparing her latest column decrying some small liberal arts college’s decision not to grant Ben Shapiro a platform to explain how all Arabs are inherently murderous sewage loving barbarians, arguing that it signifies a broad progressive suppression of speech that will lead to the downfall of…