You would be amazed at how quickly white people claim that diversity is both really important to them and about “so much more” than mere race. It’s about diverse ways of thinking, which means that the rare far-right views must be protected. I have witnessed this many times, in person. And I’m sure you, personally,…

Trust that Trump voters across the Midwest did not realize he planned to impose tariffs that would result in their soybean orders being cancelled. They did not knowingly sacrifice their crops for the sake of the right and the good, sorry.

No but people aren’t happy about that either, are they?

I would write them a letter telling them why you find this unacceptable.

It’s also different when you’re dealing with an admissions offer to a student vs. an employee with a contract. They could bring the point home in a number of other ways without firing her, however. 

Not to mention ethics forbids doing that on purpose! You could gather data about what people consume during pregnancy and what happens to the baby afterward, but women are likely to underreport the alcohol consumption and perhaps mismeasure it in the first place. You almost have to study in some other culture that is…

The thing is, nobody on the other side(s) is “escalating” anything - this is all unidirectional. Most people in this country do not agree with this stuff and are displeased with it. The reason we will see an increasingly violent and hostile response from the far right is that they do not have the numbers to exert…

No, that happened last week, when several journalists were gunned down following years of calls for violence against journalists from political figures on the right.

Perhaps he was thinking of last week’s mass murder of journalists, coming on the heels of calls for violence against journalists, from the extreme right and at Trump rallies?

It is a deliberate plan to eat at Mexican restaurants so that people will start paying attention to restaurant conflicts, see the admin members as Victims (sob!) and forget all about those children in cages.

The woman in this video wasn’t screaming. She calmly explained her grievance, on behalf of humanity, the earth, other species.

The tables already were turned. Were you not paying attention during President Obama’s term? Even a member of Congress shouted “you lie” during his public address. Taking kids and locking them up in cages is not a particularly civil confrontation, is it? Leading mass group chants to lock up your political opponents?…

I like Liz Taylor Amy because she’s so obviously fake blonde that she becomes not-blond, in a way. Finally.

He is accused of forcing a kiss on one woman and pulling another one into his lap without her consent. Are these major crimes? No. Does he deserve censure for behaving like that, if he did? Yes.

Dude, Tammy Duckworth is not a white woman! 

Unfortunately the national party is all about purity tests. They have hamstrung so many red-state Democrats, especially when they dare not to follow every bit of the NARAL platform. 

There are very few of these people, you realize.

That’s absolutely right. That is the #1 reason why Republicans I know are Republican. They could, sadly, remain racist and still vote for Democrats, but they can’t remain pro-life and vote for Democrats. They also have no idea whatsoever what it would mean for abortion to be truly illegal. No idea. They don’t know…

Exactly right. It’s not like people are going to fail to talk about the tax cuts being exclusively for the wealthy. But the goal is not to convince the average Trump supporter to navel-gaze and see the light. The goal is to make clear that almost everyone is being hurt by the current policies.

It is actually quite useful that the vile people are showing their true selves right now, because it prevents all those people in the middle from being able to identify with it and look away. Are you for taking people’s kids away for no good reason and throwing them in a cage? No? Well then, you had better not vote…