That’s the same copout every man gets when he kills women, or every white dude gets when he kills minorities. He was a student of white supremacy from South Carolina to Rhodesia, and had easy access to guns. That’s why and how he killed nine people. Plenty of mentally ill people aren’t racist extremists. And there are…

It’s probably good to avoid disappointment.

You do you. You’re clearly not an ally. You don’t want to address the issue. You want to defend yourself. That’s all.

I’ve been expecting to see that story here. I know it’s easier to write a story about racist rich white people (and pretend it’s exclusive to southern states) but the DMV closings is terrifying and will affect poor and minority voters in this election

The majority of white people, even the good ones, are utter cowards. They’d much rather have minorities fight this fight. Then, we get pigeonholed as “angry [insert ethnicity]”.

I’m equally perplexed by the fact that a young, beautiful, and competent black woman would want to join such a group.

I think “enslaved people” is better than “slaves” because they were people. I get that they were slaves once they reached America, but they were people first.

“Genuinely curious” “Just saying” “Honestly”

I can’t tell if you’re being genuine in your semantics inquiry. If you don’t believe that word choices matter in the framing of stories and history, you can’t be satisfied by our answers. To say that slaves were here to “work” is to deny the reality of slavery, because the connotations for 90% of the population is…

How is using slave twice more redundant than the word workers followed by work?

Another reason is that the writer was consciously trying to soften the language because they thought it would make people feel sad about American history. Which may seem farfetched except that’s what Texas school boards have made clear they want in their text books.

So you think that redundancy in using the word “slave” twice is more offensive than the fact that the word “worker” erases the depravity of the slave trade? You should really reflect on why you even asked this question in the first place.

Slaves, perhaps?

Yeah, not surprised that nobody helped her and wants to deny it ever happened. This whole “graduate students are not employees and therefore have no rights” practice in at least US universities is BULLSHIT by the way. The University pays most graduate students and we often serve in a teaching or research role. For a…

Why wouldn’t you want to? Seems rather insecure...

I think the “learn how to last longer” is a load (heh) of garbage.

But don’t you think when you see something like this that it’s probably borne out of the frustration of the “more effective” things you’re talking about not really actually having an effect on the problem?

None of those things you mention are effective.

Time and again violence, and riots are the only way to get media scrutiny for the plight of the ethnically and economically disadvantaged. History proves you wrong that quiet and calm protest works.

Well, obviously launching a physical assault on any business is not constructive, but I think the resentment long time residents might feel about a place that is clearly intended to serve the people pricing them out of their homes is understandable and not entirely unfair, independently owned or not. Those businesses…

I agree with almost everything you said, except for this part: “work is work.” This statement erases the reality of all but the most privileged sex workers. Sex work is not like any other type of “work”. It should be legal, of course, to protect the women involved. But it is different from every other type of…