There is a sizable portion of white America that sees this as the exact cure for racism. All our problems would be solved if black people would just forgive us for everything.

Seriously, how hard is it really to NOT be an intentional asshole?

Uuuuuuuugh that is the worst

“...White Nationalists find Asians to be the most agreeable non-white group in our society”)...”

And why does he get to “identify” the student? Why doesn’t the student’s self-identification beat anyone else’s identification of that person?

This is the most ridiculous smear of Yang I have seen thus far, congrats.

I had a teacher continuously call me Nicole because he refused to believe that my actual name was Nico and that it wasn’t short for Nicole. He then would try to write me up when I didn’t respond to the name. Thankfully, the principal had my back and told him to cut that shit out.

“I bullied a child, and you told me not to, which violates my rights.” Yeah, no.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa I was fired for being a gargantuan asshole to someone I’m supposed to educate and enrich, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. 

I feel like whatever cast was on during your sleepover years becomes “your” cast.   

He also seems to be a really nice guy, and has handled various humiliating and infuriating situations pretty well. I hope he has a good season. 

That’s Bowen Yang, promoted out of the writer’s room. He’s very funny online, I hope he has a lot of screen time this year. 

I still watch SNL too. It reminds me of the good old days when I’d have a friend over for a sleepover and we’d watch SNL (John Belushi Dan Ackroyd era). I’d have to turn up the teevee to cover the sound of my mom and her boyfriend getting busy.

As a WOC, I find it kind of annoying that any time there are women fighting for reproductive rights in any capacity it’s completely discounted if they are white. It’s a weird take. In the fight to come we need all the allies we can get. You can both want more diversity and applaud all activism. It’s not mutually…

I haven’t finished The Treatments yet, so I won’t read past the spoiler, but Atwood also wrote a very prescient novel about the climate crisis, Oryx and Crake. It’s about a world falling apart, the weather is getting more extreme and large parts of the world are becoming uninhabitable because of extreme droughts or…

I actually thought the cover up of the Ramirez allegations was pretty powerful. She furnished the names of 25 witnesses that the FBI never contacted, people who tried in vain to contact the FBI themselves when no one reached out to them. I can see why the Times lead with that.

Especially now that so many states have declared abortion murder. Now every miscarraige in those states will be a crime scene with the mother as the prime suspect.

So this is my form class photo from year 8 in 1980 at Churchlands Senior High School in Perth Australia. This is the uniform we had to wear and wearing some sort of school uniform in schools in Australia is common and normal.

I teach at a vocational school, and technically, I’m supposed to tell the students to take off their hats or whatever, but I honestly just don’t give a shit. Those rules are more for when they are working in the shop, and if they’re doing what I need them to do in class, then I am not going to get upset about a…