Perhaps I haven’t searched hard enough, but I don’t think anyone is saying they deserved to die because they ran from cops. They died because they made a mistake. You can’t blame the officers for not risking their lives to save theirs. Police have an obligation to do whatever they can within reasonable limits, but…

That sounds like a reasonably neutral way of saying “I’m not as certain as my wife, but for all I know she could be right”. Would you rather he gaslight her and say “Well I didn’t see it, but my wife is just convinced it was an overnight change.”?

do you have any idea how ridiculous your argument sounds when your first point against DeNiro is “Fuck you DeNiro, you degenerate piece of garbage.”? Yeah, I stopped reading right there. You are an arrogant angry person who needs to be humbled and take a lesson in manners.

I had a flu shot while pregnant. Mercury (thimerosol)was in that shot. My son has autism. Do not tell parents whose lives have been devastated by this disorder that there is no connection. How could mercury NOT affect a developing brain????? I saw Robert De Niro's interview and all he said was: let's get answers.

Well for one thing, Wilipedia IS a shitty place to do any type of accurate, sourced research. Hate crimes and the motivations behind them have been extensively studied and reviewed. If a male who rapes women is removed from female interaction, they will eventually not be able to fight their urges and will begin raping…

babe, thanks x

I’m not sure you understand what a “hate crime” is. Per the FBI, it’s a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity”

Catharine MacKinnon’s musings, while intriguing, don’t really match up all that well with the research on rapists. The research suggests that they rape women because they can get away with it, which is why they’re also raping family members, children, and subordinate males. It’s not about hating women, it’s about…

Aren’t all crimes “hate” crimes? Why do people jaywalk? Because they HATE crosswalks and waiting for signals.

Unfortunately it weakens an argument and makes people more likely to discount anything of worth you might have said, at least if you want to have serious discourse and not be blown off as just another troll.

I get your point, but would it really help the situation if all rapes were also prosecuted as hate crimes? For one thing, they require separate trials.

I don’t know why, but it surprised me a little that a lesbian couple would find raising a black child as the cause of “undue stress,” apparently more so than being a lesbian couple with kids in America. You would think they’d be used to dealing with that kind of difficulty. But here we are... where a lesbian couple…

She isn’t wrong. Her words:

Where’s your come at me bro?

I wish her child didn’t have to live with that racist bullshit BUT I also feel that a refund doesn’t cut it when you’re given the wrong goddamn sperm for the express purpose of creating a new human being. I mean, what the actual fuck? How big a scam could these people run when you think of it?

It's not gross - it's someone actually recognizing the cultural, political, and economic costs of having a child of mixed race, especially without the resources or frame of reference to raise that child within the culture under which she'll be judged her entire life. So yeah.

I mostly agree, but I think it's fair enough if the emotional distress she's citing isn't "I have a black kid now," but rather "I have to deal with people's intolerance of my kid now when I wasn't prepared for that and am facing having to uproot my entire life to move somewhere more tolerant and make new friends."

Yeah, this. I sympathize with her concerns about raising an unexpected mixed-race child, especially right now (so much racial hysteria surrounding the country's ongoing adjustment to the first Af-Am President....), but that's not the reason to sue - the reason to sue is that goddamn, these places need to have some…

If she's suing for the funds it will take to relocate her family and keep them afloat until new jobs are found, I'll allow it. That seems like an expense that is necessary for this child's well-being that would not have been necessary but for the mixup. If she's suing for emotional distress, she can get bent.