The way I see it, there are a lot of parallels between this situation and the situation of a guy pulling aside a woman at work and asking her “could you explain this ‘feminism’ thing to me? I want to do the right thing but I haven’t heard much about these ‘microaggressions’ and ‘intersectionality’ among my white male…

She is also falling into the old habit of saying “I want to have a conversation” when what she means to say is “I want you to tell me that what I am doing is okay.”

1) really not outraged.

I was with Tilda until she didn’t seem to grasp that you could still cast an Asian actor in a role as long as the character was updated to avoid the stereotypes in the original text. She seemed to think that it was an either/or situation, which is certainly not true.

I’ve been reading several responses to this and I am definitely seeing it now. It’s the insidious kind of “I’m a woke white person” stuff that gets in the way of actually making progress.

Cho’s view doesn’t make Swinton sound malicious at all. I’d say that’s some white fragility afoot. Chi portrayed Swinton as a hapless white person trying to make themselves feel better about some whitewashing she participated in. The emails don’t contradict that. Swinton just goes on and on about how the whitewashing…

Well, here’s how these conversations feel as a person of color. A white person reaches out to you sometimes - as the only POC that they know. “Hey, can you explain this one thing to me?” Like, I’m Mexican-American, so they might say, for example, “Hey, can you tell me why people think Speedy Gonzales was a negative…

At this point the only questions are: who on Trump’s team knew what the Russians were up to, and when? Because if any of them—all the way up to the Moldy Cheeto himself—knew and didn’t share what they knew with law enforcement, they’re part of a conspiracy to commit treason.

They haven’t gotten to sentencing yet. Might want to wait till then to attack people

You jumped the shark, the state hasn’t even entered the sentencing phase or the decade long appeals process.

He hasn’t been sentenced to death; he’s only been found guilty. Your outrage is premature if not moot.

Yes but minorities might listen.

My Facebook feed has just been a solid wall of this story - if it’s true, it’s actually awful. The grieving parents should have spent the last moments with their child, not a strange, aging beard enthusiast!

Wha...? You only have to be 35 to be president. JFK was the youngest ever *elected*, at age 43.

Exactly, well said, the way to fight against her perceived gender bias, is to be gender-biased right back. She will never respond even though she SHOULD. Then she’ll misrepresent the comments. She’s very duplicitous, she doesn’t want a quality discussion. Yes, summarized perfectly. 

Gotcha. Okay, she posted 4 clear examples of men doing this. Now all we need is four or more examples of women doing it, and your point is right on.

Counterpoint: 140 characters or GTFO. If you can’t pare it down for the platform it doesn’t mean that you have necessary ideas which require excess space; it means you’re bad at Twitter (which is a dumb platform, itself). Paste a thesis and shortened link (to your blog or goatse, whatever the mood calls for) like a…

Sad? How in any way does this situation, even if you believed the faux news, calls for a random vigilante citizen to start shooting a gun inside a closed place? Shouldn’t he have called the #bluelivesmatter police force to handle it? Or is it because DC’s police force is majority black? Real life is very different…

“Most” is not “all” and the veracity of an event is not predicated upon how cleanly it confirms your bias.

Is this the same Michael G. Flynn that was offering cheap blowjobs on the Buffalo, NY Craigslist ?