Crispin also criticizes Lena Dunham, Rebecca Traister, Steinem, HRC, etc. Beyonce, like these other women, has used feminism to boost her brand while raking in millions off the exploitation of others. Her definition of feminism is more radical, as is inherent in black feminism, but I think Crispin’s (limited!)…

I agree. I also feel like she criticizes people for distancing themselves from second wave feminism while glossing over the fact that a big reason people do that is because a lot of second wave feminists said a lot of racist (and transphobic) things.

weird and suspicious

I’m not a Beyonce stan at all. I just find the attitude towards her weird and suspicious, from white women and sometimes from Black women. It doesn’t mean I think she is perfect or beyond criticism.

Capitalism has ALWAYS been an issue. Well you’re talking to a black girl and to be really real. I’m super over this attitude from other black women when other black women, who have nothing against them are ready to throw them into the fire, if we say anything against their precious beyonce. And to take to the next, I…

I’m not sure how much Jessa Crispin you’ve read, but if you think she jumps on Beyonce while celebrating idiot white women celebrities, that’s just not the case. It’s possible to believe that all of these people — Lena Dunham and Beyonce and Taylor Swift — are complicit in a system that fundamentally abuses women.…

We can talk about that, but let’s not pretend that suddenly capitalism is an issue when a Black woman is rich and famous as fuck. Let’s not criticize every famous Black woman who says she’s a feminist while praising famous white women for the bare minimum. And let’s not dismiss Beyonce for being sexual while praising…

She lost me with her comments on white feminism. It’s not just power, it’s the power and cluelessness that whiteness affords.

Exactly. If only evil monsters could do the things the Nazis did, then there’s nothing to worry about, because we’re not evil monsters. So we can all relax and let Trump do whatever he wants, secure in our knowledge that we’re nothing like the Nazis.

I’m not certain but I’m fairly sure I didn’t say the slave trade and Nazism were the same, just that it frames how I think about the general culpability of people under the Third Reich and the Antebellum South.

As a Chewbacca I tend to think of it the way I do the South and Slavery. A relatively small percentage of Southerners owned slaves and directly profited from the slave trade but almost all of them were racist as fuck and generally ok with the system as it existed, so fuck ‘em.

As a Jew I’m equally tired of the narrative that an entire country was “the bad guys”. All that does is make the Nazis seem like some cartoon villains who could never exist in real life.

This reminds me of Sherman Alexie’s comments about romances in westerns (against a backdrop of indigenous genocide): LOVE! ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS! And I began to notice in how many films set in the developing world do white people fall in love. Rwandan genocide? Indonesian military takeover? No place is too squalid; no…

Is it a coincidence that Moses backed out of entering Israel at the last minute? I think not.

Hello. I’m not American. Can someone tell me why America thought it was a good idea to make a functionally illiterate man with severe personality disorders the President of the United States of America?

As funny as this is, I can almost guarantee he actually thought there would be some sort of orientation video. “Welcome! Congratulations on being elected to be the leader of the free world...”

Like, only Madonna knows what goes on in her mind, but if this makes you uncomfortable, you are not alone. There is a feeling at times that white folks fetishize and essentially “collect” black children. I don’t think it’s an unfounded feeling. It can somehow feel even more gross when they are celebrities because you…

This movement is all about breaking teacher’s unions & turning our education professionals into uncredentialled, at-will service sector employees. “Welcome to Hardee’s Academy — can I teach you long division today?”

The amazing thing about the teachers union thing is this, by all metrics states with a strong union out perform states considered “right to work”.

Bitching about teacher’s union is a thing because it, I dunno, people are pissed we still get benefits or something.