Yeah, Occam’s Razor says that it’s more likely that a lot of white allies stopped doing hard work or failed to follow through on big commitments because it was hard, not because they were lying through their teeth. The corporations probably were lying, but the average ally is just lazy and rationalizing it away.

This was a great effort, but you gotta do your troll homework before taking it out in public. Pearl-clutching is about being morally shocked or scandalized(1), not offended. It’s a shame to see such enterprising trolling creativity wasted on a failure of basic literacy, but there’s always next time!

This might be the worst reading comprehension I’ve ever seen. Congratulations!

I just said I don’t understand it and argued your points as to why youo think they do.

For every person that actually loses their platform, there are 10,000 people complaining that they’re “not allowed to say anything” while suffering zero consequences for the dumb things they say. It’s gotta be an incredible cognitive dissonance to talk so much about being persecuted, yet suffer none.

Sure, you have every right to question and debate things, and other people have every right to point out that it’s dumb to try to “question and debate” why people like things that you don’t, and you don’t have to throw a crybaby pity party when they do.

Here’s an idea: it’s okay to not understand why people feel and like things that you don’t. You don’t have to “counter-point” their “arguments” when they say they like or feel something that you don’t. You also don’t have to make post after post ridiculing the things they like as nonsensical because you don’t…

So I’m really lost as to where you think the connection would be

It seems odd to me to think that there’s no reason to feel a connection to people who go to the same school as you, but some reason to feel a connection to people who play the same video game as you (talk about a transaction), but, hey, agree to disagree.

Sort of. College teams recruit widely, but if you look at a college team roster that isn’t a perennial title contender, at least a third of the players are from the area. Also, millions of people have direct personal connections to colleges as alums or relatives of alums or employees which gives them a meaningful rooti…

Having serious loyalty to a major league professional team doesn’t really make sense, but college sports or lower profile pro or pro-am sports are more likely to have genuine ties to the community and local players. I enjoy watching pro sports because they’re the best players on the planet, but I can’t imagine caring…

Hold me down from replying as you make claims about me, based upon my race, and I’ll show you someone who would seem to be punching up, not down.

The problem is that those white folks have learned and internalized the superficial rule that “talking about race is racist,” largely because the way that they usually talk about race is, in fact, racist. Then they self-righteously turn around and claim that all the non-white people talking about race must be racist,…

It depends on what your definition of “racist” is. If your definition is (as it sounds like it is) “any mention of race,” then sure, but that’s a pretty crappy definition of race, especially since it’s used to excuse racist actions that aren’t explicitly admitted to be racist. That’s the “it’s okay to mostly hire and…

I wasn’t engaging with your point because I disagreed with your perspective? I guess you’re the expert since you’ve pointedly refused to engaged with the point of the article and really the entire idea of these month-long fitness challenges.

If you’re talking to people who struggle to be motivated enough to do any exercise, it’s not crazy advice to try revisiting an exercise you formerly hated with new resources and ideas. It’s true that running is probably overrated as exercise in the culture, but it’s also cheap and flexible and widely supported, as…

OTOH, it’s always worth revisiting your priors and being open to experiences you previously disliked. This is especially true for exercise, where our circumstances and bodies change a lot over the years. I hated running as a kid and young adult, but as my preferred mode of exercise (sports with friends) became…

It is extraordinary how many people claim they don’t like passive voice and show that they have no capacity to correctly recognize it. Strunk and White even rail against passive voice in their famous book, yet they use it frequently, including in the very first sentence in one edition.

Some people will 100% judge you for wearing white after Labor Day or for breaking a million other made up rules. It’s also worth pointing out that redundant question prepositions like “where are you going to” or “where are you at” are more stigmatized than the unremarkable situations where ending a sentence with a…

I fully anticipate a Days-of-Future-Past style time travel MCU pic bridging Phase 1-2 characters with Phase 4+. Hopefully they follow the model of Endgame and actually put in the time to earn a big moment like that instead of making a rushed cash grab.