I remember when my childhood neighbours visited the US, and went to a baseball game. People gave them dirty looks because they didn’t stand for the anthem, even after they explained that they are British.

It’s also kind of funny to think that this means the Founding Fathers were unamerican by their standards. ;-)

LOL, this very week Fucker Carlson called the US’ highest-ranking general a “stupid pig” and approximately zero Republicans had anything critical to say about it. This is an active, uniformed, serving general, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If that doesn’t unmask their “patriotism” as cynical performative…

Ah yes, because one can’t be interested in sports without also sucking off the American flag. Good for her. They bring politics into these games by making every fucking game* a political stunt, then get their panties in a bunch when someone refuses to play along.

*For the non-Americans, yes every game. You can’t go to…

The GQP turned their own back on the American flag when they embraced the confederate one.

I admit my viewpoint is colored by experiences with bi-polar friends/family. It could be nerves, it could be trauma, it could be a hypomanic bi-polar episode - I’m not a medical professional. I see some familiar threads that suck if it is related to her bi-polar. Most people don’t know what an episode is really like,…

The fact remains that people with mental illness can still be determined to have capacity. Just watched a man incapable of living alone sign a bunch of papers today - unpressured - to agree to his treatment regimen and Advanced Directive. This case is absurd from my perspective (someone who works with people pre- and…

This is mostly correct, in particular with regards to the lack of public safety nets and support for the mentally ill and their families (unless there’s a case of imminent risk to self or others).

Her testimony reads like someone who is exhibiting a lot of concerning symptom. The pressured speech, flight of ideas-bouncing from little details in unrelated stories, grandiose thinking, paranoia. She’s not making points about how she is healthy now, but doesn’t want an evaluation to show she is in a healthier…

Yeah, there’s a lot of things about this case that are mind-boggling.

Born and raised Hawaii, this guy has been doing his blackface/what he thinks how they talk in the ghetto and gayface for years here.

Her experience is a very Irish one indeed. I've just finished reading the autobiography of Mary coughlan, an Irish jazz singer who was sexually abused by family members. She was told to shut up about it, and it was at the root of her alcoholism and drug dependency. The church has a lot to answer for.

Well yeah, having a bunch of background players and extras that represent that section of the community is akin to having them play “the help” which is demeaning. I saw the movie and honestly it has the same feel as a Latin American soap opera where all the main characters are white/lighter skinned and everyone else…

It’s sad to see The Root’s comment section going out like this. But I guess seeing less and less comments from long-time commenters means deep down we knew it would come to this eventually?

I dislike the tone of reverence given to O’Connor’s veneer of honesty. I suspect she would dislike it herself, even if she didn’t understand why. We’ve watched O’Connor’s mental illnesses and childhood trauma acted out on the international stage for decades because of her fame. But as recently as a week ago she…

Good from LMM, but why did it have to be pointed out to him so blatantly in order for him to recognize this? It’s not like people are asking for all Latin American identities to be portrayed in the movie, just asking that in a story about a Dominican immigrant family living in NYC in a mainly Dominican neighborhood act…

Your posts that a then-16 year-old told to kill herself is the one at fault are still here.  No need for paranoia.

Chrissy Teigen has rubbed me the wrong way for awhile, mostly because I think a lot of her schtick is largely performative. This whole situation is certainly not a case of “I always knew it!”, but more that I am hardly surprised by any of it. She is certainly entitled to make her apology to whoever she needs to, but I…

So Chrissy now admits it was only a public apology, after she lied by saying she privately apologized, which Stodden proved by showing they were still blocked by Chrissy. She's so full of shit. If she were actually sorry, she'd unblock Stodden. I wonder if she's reached out to Quvenzhene Wallis, who was only 8 or 9…

The sponsorship dry up, so now it’s time for another apology.  Maybe she could devote her time and money to charity instead of social media?  Maybe do good things versus trying to reclaim your social media “It Girl” status?