Yes, pat yourselves on the back for your twitter activism. Convince yourselves that you’ve done your job while Trump permanently installs himself as dictator.

Lol. Here’s a great example of being so left-wing you don’t even realize you’re acting right-wing.

You couldn’t take a break strawmanning Chait to even mention the word “Obama” anywhere?

Or: The athletes can be adults and get over it.

This was actually (and happily) not a political article. This being a Gawkmodo subsidiary, I was expecting to see something like “Because Donald ‘Hitler’ Trump hates brown people”

They may also support a decision to stop dictating the travel plans of other individuals just because it offends them personally.

Good. Don’t read it. Nobody cares what you think.

“as a standard-issue center-left pundit who is sort of clueless about race” 

Then you have a dumb definition of white supremacy.

Apparently Chait believes you shouldn’t call someone a white supremacist unless they are actually a white supremacist. WHAT AN ASSHOLE AMIRITE?

as Ali Gharib points out, Judah P. Benjamin, perhaps the most prominent Jewish politician in the country at that time, served in Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s cabinet.

Did they actually issue the licenses, or legalize the ability for women to get licenses? i.e. I imagine a qualifying test is still involved somewhere.

You know they weren’t booing the national anthem. At least feign honesty.

Hillary Clinton Will Never Understand What Happened... but this fucking blogger is here to explain what really happened!

“First, fuck this woman—she’s not “transitioning” to black, she’s playing dress up as a minstrel show character.”

F.P. Santangelo

> I truly doubt any White person who is crazy enough to artificially darken their skin

But this is her identity. Who are you to tell her who and what she is?

This comment at once expresses disapproval at discrimination against one race yet gleefully encourages completely shitting on another race.

Step 1: Gawker makes up unsubstantiated rumors