I feel like I live 400 miles from a mirror universe. Our leader insults, their leader apologizes. Our leader can’t speak one language well, their leader is fluent in two....

I think I read that “even” the lowest-paid NFL player makes a few million. But take a couple million for 3-4 years, take out taxes, spread that amount out over retirement...peanuts. With a side of head injury.

We’ve managed to make our white Thanksgiving not suck so much. There’s about 1/3 of a pie per person, but one of those is pumpkin. I tried to get us to switch to sweet potato pie instead and the entire family was all, “....Why?”

Exactly. What he did was stupid and hurtful, but he’s also one of the only people saying “Yes, this is true. I am sorry, and I will cooperate with any ethics inquiries.” And so far it doesn’t appear to be a pattern with him. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be consequences because he apologized, but what are the…

The first time I scrolled by this headline I thought it said “Steven Spielberg” and I was all, “Where will it end???” But yeah, Steven Segal, absolutely not shocked, he can go away now.

I’m going to echo some other comments and say that it’s perfectly okay for you/your kid to dress up as a specific someone from another race/ethnicity—if you’re emphazising what makes that person unique, not their ethnicity. The Nicki Minaj costume is a great example: your friend was specifically focusing on Nicki’s…

You have an odd child. In the best possible way.

I was really, horribly bullied in 6th grade (like, if social media had existed, there would have been a good chance I would have killed myself). By the whole class, but there were two girls named Jill who really led it.

Also, David Cross married to Amber Tamblyn now, who hasn’t exactly been shy about this whole issue. So yeah, I believe both of them. He was probably a jerk, and it seems like now he knows better.

Say exactly that. I have a few male friends who posted in solidarity, acknowledging there are actions/words in the past they regret, and that they’re committing to do better.

Came here to say the exact same thing. Golden Compass? Brilliant. Subtle Knife? Good. Amber Spyglass? Hated it so much I wanted to throw it across the room.

NFL players were not even required to be on the field during the anthem until 2009, right around when the military started paying the NFL for “patriotic displays.”

Oh my god, yes. And the white woman’s response under #5. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read that same drivel from some aunt of a friend or friend of an aunt. “We all need to LOVE each other, GOD made us all the same!!! Why can’t people just treat each other with RESPECT? There’s too much hatred in the world as…

The Democratic Party doesn’t get to approve who registers to run as a Democrat. They hated Clarke. And though the city of Milwaukee is largely black, the county gets whiter and whiter the futher you get from the central city. Milwaukee county is surrounded by four of the reddest counties in the country.

Yup, my mom’s ‘new’ kidney is near the front, so when she gets a kidney infection, she gets pain in her abdomen. I took her to the emergency room once and the doctor was all “Well, it’s probably not a kidney infection because of where the pain is.” He was pretty sheepish when he was proven wrong, despite her telling…

I can’t wait to watch every single clip of this show I can manage to dredge up out of the depths of YouTube.

I’m not sure of the exact details, but yes, you can refuse service, as long as that refusal is based on the individual. A restaurant can ban someone who’s being belligerent, for example. You can ban your sister’s ex-boyfriend; you can’t ban all white men.

I had to stop following the only friend from high school I still kept in touch with when she went from mom-and-lawyer to mom-and-Rodan&Fields saleswoman.

Dear fellow white Jezebel readers: We are all at least partly Beckys. It is not The Root’s job to help us deal with that. Please take yourself less seriously.

My standard response (or at least I hope my standard response if ever in this situation) is “What you call ‘political correctness’ I call ‘treating people with basic human decency’.”