I . . . don't really understand why. Your position is confusing to me, and you're refusing to explain it. If it's more satisfying for you to throw your hands up into the air and walk away, I clearly don't have the power to stop you.

No. Sorry. When it comes to racists, I am right and you are wrong. In the above example the "friend" calls black people animals. That's some racist BS right there. No gray. We can talk about your racism and if your only response is "I'm not a racist, that's just how I feel." then I am done with you.

Yes because we all know that black people have been the dominate ethnicity and have established a system that upholds racism to non-blacks.

Don't you know all POC are poor and don't have time to read gossip. You know cause we're committing crimes, getting killed or beaten by the police and being a general menace to society.

"I don't think they have an ounce of social responsibility to acknowledge that the world has non-white people in it. That is what freedom is all about."

Telling someone "You need to talk live everyone else here. This isn't Essence," is difficult to interpret in any other way than "Stop talking like a black person". Not that the phrase is not related to storytelling - it's related directly to the way Ms. Robertson speaks. So what does that mean? No "urban" language?…

They have a responsibility not to say racist bullshit and acknowledge that the world is not full of only white people and that white people are the only ones reading their magazine. Is that what you're trying to justify?

Your username is perfect for this comment.

"Robertson said when she pitched a story about an African-American model who'd been killed, Gleick told her the victim looked like a "slut" and the magazine wasn't interested."

Fuck ya!!!! I've been watching this tournament and Mo'Ne is just beyond words. She is a phenomenal athlete with a very competitive attitude. I have loved watching her play. And I also love my daughters reaction to watching her, MOM!!! Girls play baseball!?!?! Yes baby girls can do whatever they want.

Yeah, I'm going to be THAT commenter and suggest that someone on Gawker do a story about the Jackie Robinson West team. Black participation in Little League has been going down in the past decades and this is the first black team from Chicago to make the World Series in 30 years. Professional athletes pitched in to…

Now that she got kicked out of the sorority she'll have a lot more free time. Does the Ferguson Police Department have a work study program?

What happens when a white parent has to inform their child who is half black and half white how to move in American society as a minority?

I know I need to finally call my mom when she logs onto Facebook just to post "CALL YOUR MOTHER" on my timeline. She is not internet savvy and posting it takes her 15 minutes, so you know she means business.

I found the key to be Words With Friends. You play a word, she knows you're alive and all is right with the world.

Pretty bad analogy. How is it not exclusionary to exclude trans women; either from a concert, or as some try to, from feminism as a whole? It could not possibly be more literally, fundamentally exclusionary than that. There isn't even an accusation there, just a blindingly obvious factual statement.

I think there's an opportunity for dialogue between these different schools of feminism that may help everyone understand each other a bit better, but instead both sides are digging in their heels and outright refusing to listen to each other.

Oh, I see...now we're simple-minded because we don't understand how magnanimous and enlightened you are huh?

I would partially agree with that sentiment although I think that intrinsic interest and intrinsic aptitude are at least equally important.

It's not that I don't agree with these arguments. It's that they don't address the extant and real effects of racism—eliminating the word doesn't automatically eliminate the value that the word represented. Though those concepts are great in theory, if you don't consider how institutions have been warped based on…