Claim all human life is sacred. Vote to strip millions of human lives of their health care. Makes perfect fucking sense.

Yeah, as I hope was clear in my comment, I’m pretty ambivalent about that perspective. I just felt like it needed to be pointed out and considered, if not necessarily endorsed. Others have responded with articulate defenses that are also worth consideration.

Yes! My initial reaction was that the video should be scrubbed from the net. But as you say—this was her last act as an agent in the world. She wanted people to see it. She needed people to see how great her pain was.

I think she definitely wanted the world to see it. You don’t livestream your own death if you don’t want virtual witnesses. I find myself a little conflicted about scrubbing the internet of the video for this reason. On one hand I’m thoroughly repulsed by the people who are passing the video around on social media.…

It’s selfishness, a lack of respect for human life, unrestrained consumption, and religion.

This is just an awful story at every level.

Putting this out as a reminder, abuse doesn’t always involve physical harm. You don’t have to have bruises in order to seek help from a shelter. Threats are abuse. (This includes threats of suicide if you leave.) Breaking your possessions is abuse. Punching walls is abuse. Withholding and/or controlling money is…

Descendants of genocide have a notoriously difficult time tracing their heritage. That’s the whole point of genocide. This could be said of Ojibway... or the Jews, Assyrians, or Armenians. Would it be better if mixed race people identified as white? Should Jews refuse to convert back? Should Assyrians claim that…

I’m all for fighting for the little guy, and think that if Boyden decided to publicly advertise himself as something be isn’t, that was probably a pretty stupid thing to do, but correlating the authority of his literary works to his genetic ancestry comes across a lot like the Jewish ancestry witch-hunts of WW2-era…

Twitter is a poor place to have substantial, complex discussions about things like this, it makes it too easy for people to not give a good long hard think to what they are saying before they speak it, lest actual, flesh and blood people realize just how off kilter from reality they sound.

I think this raises two very real issues.

You beat me to it. My mother was the queen of the shitty parents, and yet I have managed to not allow history to repeat itself with my own daughter. People who use their own shitty upbringing as an excuse to be shitty parents themselves are even worse than the average abusive parent, because they know how it feels to…

The stereotype that white people always carry ranch dressing around with them is not cool anymore. When you say ‘He’s already got his, that white boy over there’” don’t just fucking assume I’m carrying my own ranch dressing around with me you hurtful monster. I need it for my tenders and when you assume that I already…

Just going to leave this here:

told her “she was not acting like herself,”

We really should start spreading rumors in China about the healing properties of Republicans.

One, I’m black. Two, you’re a dummy if you didn’t understand my comment. Do people not know what speaking in code means?

I’m saying that right now, when it matters...having 150 trillion votes in California still wouldn’t impact the outcome. If you hate the Electoral College (you should), it will take a generational effort to abolish it. You’d have to break gerrymandered districts. You’d have to appeal to rural and blue-collar voters in…

Of course it’s both. What WhimsicalEthnographies is talking about is *an effect of sexism*. However stopping at that shallow level and not calling it out for what it is (misogyny) is bullshit.

There is something especially gross about the fact that this is Trump and that a group of women are being essentially forced to do something they don’t want to do for his benefit, isn’t there? I mean, I understand the whole “this is your job, and you have an obligation” and whatnot, but the the idea of the…