I can’t help wondering if the police knew who he was, which is a disturbing thought to say the least. Apparently he was on probation, so they might have known his car, and there were a few links to stories suggesting he had escaped police custody, maybe in 2014 or just recently (from an online newspaper account):

I agree except for the caveat that this isn’t implicit bias, it’s explicitly race-biased choice. You know exactly what you are doing and why, when you choose to move to a specific area where your white kids will attend mostly white-populated schools. I would also go farther and say Yes, it makes those people Racist.…

But this is a story about the religious right, a certain segment thereof, and you’re missing that Catholics and others outside that group are pro-life (and Catholics have radically transformed as a voting bloc in part because of this issue split between Ds/Rs).

But it is true that the history of that movement involves a lot of racist reasons and actions, as you observe, and it’s not quite as distant as just Sanger. Even through the 70s, 80s, you would hear people making arguments in support of birth control for non-white parents, and since then one hears regular “don’t have…

I don’t think this is at all true. If anything, the pro-choice movement has a racist history. I don’t think the present day movement should be judged in that light, but it may explain why some women are wary of it, given the history where Black women and others were sterilized against their will, or birth control was…

Completely agree with you on this: in general, the trans prisoners are going to be the more vulnerable population. However, there are difficult, controversial real life cases - what do you do, for instance, when a convicted rapist transitions to female while in prison, as I understand has happened in NY? The primary…

There is at least one very controversial real life case like this in NY of all places. I don’t think these controversial cases are the norm - far from it! But we also should not imagine that the stakes and situations here are the same as they are when it comes to, say, teenagers who have never committed a crime and…

Cannot give this more than one star but it deserves many. In most cases where the term implicit bias is used, the proper term would be explicit racism. It is not particularly important what level of carefully reflective awareness the person displaying a racist behavior might have. I don’t care what their inner lives…

Except nobody is saying anything about a network of racist Starbucks managers but you. Your hypotheticals don’t apply here.

I think he changed his name because we remember him pulling the same stunt before.

Here it is again: you have a false story to tell, where a non-event happened and the REAL problem is the racial resentment stirred up by decent people who dislike racism. I’m sorry, the barista at Starbucks did not call the police on these men because of “SJWs” dividing society, and you know that. We all know that.

No, the people who called the police on (only) black men for sitting in a store are the ones who made it a “race thing”. Now you want to tell a story wherein decent people who are bothered by this are making a “race war”, which is utterly absurd. We have seen you do this in the comments before, so it’s no surprise.…

No, you’re the one making it into an absurd issue; the white patrons of the store obviously had no problem seeing what was wrong with the arrests. But you do, so you are making it a conflict because you want it to be a racial conflict.

The point is that not everyone in the same situation was asked to leave, and they were intending to meet a friend so may have wanted to delay purchasing anything until their friend arrived. At any rate, it would be enough to escort them out without arrest, if it were necessary to ask them to leave the store.

If only there was a pretty good quarterback out there somewhere who could be hired... hmm.

Remember when his trip to Prague was the stuff of “internet conspiracy theorists” and everyone was mad at the conspiracy theorists for pointing out that Cohen’s claims not to have traveled there didn’t hold water? Being right about one thing doesn’t mean you’re not a conspiracy theorist, but so many things, adding up…

Their statement is laughably false and they know it. I would rather see one of these businesses come out and grab the free speech bull by the horns and say they do not ban ideologies no matter how evil. To lie and say they do but then allow all of these people to have platforms for years - when it is beyond obvious…

When the other person says no, I feel like that is misrepresenting my views and I do not recall saying anything like that, it’s also time to back off.

Gross, what a thing to say.

Even worse: willing to pay the company that makes the lousy candy a 200% premium so that one dollar of their after-tax money goes to a sports program.