Firstly, it is unreasonable to expect complete privacy while having a conversation in public. More importantly, you are missing the point of the author’s anecdote. At no point did she accuse the man of harassment or assault. The conversation made the author uncomfortable because she has been forced to filter…

And it’s “shred.” “Shred” of evidence.

Well see McIntosh looks like a 45-year-old who owns a car dealership. Brooks looks like a 16-year-old who’s father owns a car dealership.

You can always wait until the series is out then sign up for a free trial...

Calling for the painting to be destroyed leaves room for the “reasonable compromise position” of taking it down. It also is a dramatic “soundbite-y” way to draw attention to the issue.

I absolutely agree that every white American should see what happened to Emmett Till. I do not think this painting is an appropriate way to do that.

One of the problems with the painting is that it is stylized and therefore mutes the horror of the image.

This is not a case of a white person using their platform “for good/increasing minority visibility”. The image of Emmett Till that Schutz copied (from what I can tell from the article, Schutz’s work is just a stylized rendering of existing photos) is powerfully tied to the black experience with white supremacy in…

A work of art stands on its own merits and doesn’t require context.

And Ohio and Virginia don’t have much between them outside of Columbus OH which is a pretty good small city.

I can see the Pope handling kids because of uh, christenings? (Would the Pope do that?)

Experience is not a completely unbiased metric of someone’s ability to do a job. Certainly that’s the goal, but it overlooks the fact that experience requires past access to opportunities. Say a position requires N years of experience. Anyone attempting to apply for the position would have to have been able to get…

Keep in mind that ICE is an entity separate from domestic law enforcement and the justice system. Speaking very broadly, undocumented immigrants as a class have no reason to be concerned about domestic law enforcement. Or rather, they wouldn’t except that there are policies in place which make interactions with…

Is your concern that there exists a class of people who are largely marginalized or that those people are not adequately accounted for for tax purposes? Because the solution to those issues is not to punish the marginalized and unaccounted-for with arrest and deportation.

It’s very easy to say that you just want to enforce the laws of the country but immigration policies are not the only laws. Law enforcement resources are finite and so we have to make decisions about which laws are the most important. Take the woman arrested while trying to get a restraining order against her abuser.…

Agreed. I read your comment to imply that the idea of Australians with Irish ancestry was on par with the idea of, like, Japanese people with Irish ancestry. In fairness, I think the 10% self-identified Irish-ancestry is bullshit (in the US anyway; can’t really speak for Australia).

How white Americans relate to “Irish-ness” annoys me, particularly this time of year. It’s become shorthand for “Yeah, I’m white but not like white-white; I’m cool-white. There are definitely dark periods in my totally real ancestral history that I absolutely know anything about. Those dark periods allow me to take…

Eh the Australians have about as much claim to Irish ancestry as the US (~10% of the population self-identifies as having Irish ancestry in each country).

Being unsure about the relationship between sex, gender, and society is a problem of ignorance: they do not have the information required to have a valid opinion. Such people are not to be debated, they are to be educated.

Abortion was simply the example I chose. It’s not difficult to imagine a sermon about any particular political topic that clearly indicates how “good Christians” should vote while not quite coming out and explicitly saying to vote a particular way. The clergy’s influence on the voting population is important to…