They literally can’t. People like this are nothing without their hate. We are like true north. Their eyes follow us, their noses seek our essence, their ears and mouths don’t work without our voices to be in opposition. Without us they would have to find their humanity without comparison. They would need to confront…

A rule my father taught me long ago that has served me well into adulthood:

Because girls are taught to ignore that hinky feeling. We are socialized to always be sweet and nice and thankful for a compliment. Because if you aren’t, then you are a bitch/cunt/ugly/etc. We groom girls for predators from fucking birth. Boys too, but more so girls. We force little children to hug and kiss and be…

They are VERY serious about racism.

He’s also probably an EMT. Some fire depts take all the ambulance calls for an area (my local FD does) and all of them see a fair number of medical emergencies, which opens up a wider world of ways this guy could be horrible as a first responder. I hope someone checks up on whether there are any complaints against…

We need the name, employer & address of this klansman.

And that’s why I don’t even keep the word in my lexicon.

My parents gave me permission to punch any bully that repeatedly gave me a hard time. I was obese as a child and had been assaulted several times on the playground. I’m not talking teasing, but full on being held down and kicked and spat on. One day I gave the worst bully a bloody nose. He never bothered me again.

I hate this approach.

I just want to reiterate how much I love TheRootAfterDark.

To your point - Garry Kasparov, who is a fascinating follow on Twitter as well as an international chess champion and defected Russian, points out with elegant simplicity that Russian psychological warfare only exploits what’s already there.

Kinda what happened with me and Lady Merc. I walked into the store she was at one day, and she noticed a piece of geek memorabilia I was wearing. We ended up talking for a good hour and a half that first day, and I just kept going back to her store and regaling her with stories from when I did security for anime…

So I have been accused of “yellow fever” since of my 6 major relationships, 3 have been with asians of various races. I don’t seek them out in any way but it just seems to work out with them. I guess i dont have a huge point to make other than i can understand where you are coming from.

We cannot make amends for the past nor improve the future for all if we don’t know what we’ve done/are doing wrong. I had a neighbor like this. She was a white evangelical. She told me that she knew Columbus was not a nice man and that the myths were wrong about his discovering America. Then she said rather wistfully…

Isn’t acceptance of Latinx (and “others”) part of the “4th enlargement” of whiteness?

U can be white and have the last name Cruz.

Ever since Charlottesville I’ve been looking at the attendees & noticing they’re not so...white. So....is he completely white?

I mostly agree with you but eating McDonalds weekly is not “moderation”

It is so sad what slavery did to families. Slaves lived in terror of having their families torn apart. The people that benefited the most from slavery were white men, between the patriarchy and slavery they were at the top of the heap. In that same book Jefferson’s Daughters I found out about his ex son in law John…

In the south especially there are people walking around today who don’t know that they have black ancestors. In order for some black people to have anything like progress they had to give up their families, give up their past, give up their history to become white in order to have a life of dignity. I just finished…