While I think we should have a more expansive conversation about gender, identity and sex in general, I think this is a shitty thing to do to a kid. They didn’t choose to be a prop in this argument.

Certainly. And our immigration laws make it easier to exploit people, by giving people without papers no protection when they seek help. They are trapped by the people who brought them and have no recourse.

No, that’s the whole point. They say and do mutually exclusive things because that makes it harder to call them out on specifics.

But then who would make her shoes?

What should we call the fact that he still has a job when Kathy Griffin got fired? Her work was literally censored, AND she apologized AND she got fired. It was a freak out trifecta. And the weird thing is that I’ve seen so many people leap to defend Maher, but no one seems to notice that it’s still ok to be racist…

I saw this at the checkout lane at Target. I wanted to applaud. I mean, I know this article is about Ivanka, but the whole Trump clan is just unreal.

Yes. She is deployed as a marketing tool. It’s really creepy.

They are laying groundwork for her to be our first female president. She is for Trump and against Trump. She humanizes him and soothes him. We are being groomed to accept a dynasty.

Why is America so mean to nice orange man? It’s baffling.

What principle are you upholding when you object to an artist burning their own work, after it has been documented, but you are agnostic about art that was stifled before it was ever shown?

No, he isn’t. I am very disturbed by what just happened to Kathy Griffin.

Where is it if it wasn’t censored?

But you don’t, because you’re not sticking up for Kathy Griffin. Even failed art deserves to not be censored.

And you won’t defend it. Because you are confused about why you think it is bad to burn art. So you think it is no big deal for art not to get shown, but artists can’t choose to burn work as part of an evolution of the piece.

Hey, let’s all encourage this collective punishment style of free speech. No way that could possibly go wrong!

Why don’t you know better? Do you really think it is a good idea to help the Right censor work they don’t like?

Congratulations: America censored some art.

What you said at the end is objectively not true. We did have a better news media. At least, we had a more cohesive news media, with healthier relationships and broader local content. We have done so much in the past 4 decades to deregulate and open up media markets, and the end result has not been increased…

You don’t think about Kathy Griffin’s work?

You believe that the artist should not exercise control over their own work.