I honestly found that insulting. Here in Manchester, we’re all struggling to find the right words to talk about this, and him saying that seemed thoughtless.

Even I have to admit to feeling a particular sadness for Grande, and I’m a woman in her thirties who couldn’t identify one of her songs if I tried. Those children were there to see her. She has to live with that for the rest of her life. It’s a tremendous burden to bear and I’ve saved some of my good thoughts for her…

You may be joking but I never mentioned religion, that was your assumption. Anyway, no real followers of Islam were involved in this. If anything it’s those that twist the teachings into a complex pretzel of misguided falsehoods.

But if you can write a check that clears, suddenly you’re a good driver and no longer a menace on the roads?

I’m deeply disappointed Me, Myself, and I couldn’t secure the rights to the song....

She specifically says that she thought she was going to get kicked out the establishment. She was under no illusions about what she was doing.

“I said, ‘I’ll make a deal with you: Don’t let another Nazi in, and I won’t accost that Nazi,’” she said.

if you read the lines in question in their context, he’s very clearly doing little more than ctrl-c / ctrl-ving his way through his thesis and sticking a Works Cited page on at the end. what he did was dishonest and reflects the lack of integrity that has informed pretty much his entire monstrous career. he’d still be…

This Fatherland’s End catalog looks weird.

40+ instances of ‘sloppiness’ in a thesis is serious and suspicious enough to look like plagiarism — it’s difficult to see how it’s accidental here

It de-normalizes Nazis and it’s resistance against the idea that vile racism is just a “difference of opinion” that we all have to politely tolerate and respect. That’s definitely helping the cause more than white liberals pearl-cluching about people not showing politeness to Nazis in the Trump era.

what, like don’t mix a tweed suit with a sweater-vest?

there are ethnic jews that don’t follow the religion. it’s complicated when it comes to jewishness. it’s more of a culture than a race, like latinx people (who can be any shade, skin-colour-wise.)

The 7th or 8th year is the hardest, not the 1st. Sorry.

It’s pretty telling that they think any random Jew or POC is a direct substitute for a nationally-infamous hatemonger.

I posted this reply over at The Root earlier this morning, so I’ll just drop this here.

Pendulous.

I wonder where he’s gonna go do his mental gymnastics now.

In before the debate even gets started.