Note, here’s one of the intellectually dishonest tricks people like Shapiro and his defenders use. I call him a liar and accuse of him of that because he does so constantly. To avoid that, you arbitrarily limit things to this statement, as if his repeated paeans to fake racist history and bigoted statements can just…

I always forget he’s a Harvard grad. I went to a small private liberal arts school, so I’m middle of the stuffiness order I suppose, but I’m startled by people like Shapiro when I compare them to some of my worst professors, ones who weren’t very good at teaching, and realize they probably had more intellectual rigor…

This whole “normalize the guy who’s incredibly racist against Muslims and Arabs” thing is really fucked up. You don’t let David Duke on your podcast. Shapiro’s similarities far outweigh his differences with someone like Duke, right down to their toxic milieu.

Nothing Ben Shapiro says has any value unless willfully misinforming the public to support far-right ideology is your goal. That is the only way in which he is valuable. Otherwise, he’s startlingly incompetent. He cites random fringe studies faster than you have a chance to rebut and then has an entire website to brag…

Gonna dismiss trolls with brand new burners posting nonsense, just FYI. 

That was a real goal. Gonna assume you’re a troll, because that’s a really fucking stupid comment. 

Wasn’t it that they started a new funding drive and let people redirect it, and then did the “non-profit” route? 

Some of those celebrations that people are taking issue with were from first-time World Cup players. Lavelle and Pugh I had my eye on because I occasionally watch my local-ish team (the Washington Spirit). Can I blame Pugh for celebrating her first ever World Cup goal in her first start at the highest level, at age…

Thailand is something like 34th in Fifa rankings. They’re bad, because women’s soccer is very much developing in much of the world, but they’re hardly an amateur side.

Good riddance. Every single one of these white-nationalist cretins and their bullshit claims about an imaginary “Western Civilization” merit contempt. 

Do you think them holding back is any gentler to the egos of the Thai players, who it’s worth noting, didn’t ever fully give up and played a pretty clean game despite all of stress and emotion?

She did. A couple of them were even decent saves. She could’ve done better, but she got her hands on a couple of shots that were just too strong to stop and her defense failed her other times. Only so much even a great keeper can do with a ton of traffic or hard shots from a good angle. 

This is why Republicans are packing the courts with loyal ideologues and assorted far-right bloggers. This is a reprieve but I expect the state can invent some facially-neutral way to try and strip abortion rights. With the Trump administration so enamored of “facially-neutral but actually incredibly discriminatory…

I swear I’ve noticed an uptick lately to be honest. Either they’ve got a lot more sock-burners to help themselves out or a couple of them have fooled someone with the power to ungrey. Or both. 

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean it in an accusatory way, just in an “FYI”. Trolls out are fair game. 

Personally, I don’t really care what you label yourself, it’s the bigotry and the “just asking questions” bullshit I find objectionable.

I don’t think there’s any way to make that assessment. Trans people have a lot of good reasons not to respond to surveys, and as a marginalized group are difficult to survey even under the best conditions.

You realize the initial comment everyone is responding to was an obvious set-up that anyone can see? I’ve also dismissed quite a bit of stuff from you in the past. Your username pops to mind and not for good reasons.

Not everyone gets that surgery. For many different reasons. That’s become kind of a popular fallacy, that everyone undergoes reassignment surgery.

Sorry, you can’t stop me from correctly warning others that you are a conservative troll who pretty regularly engages in bigotry on this website.