May I add?- It also originated in Queer communities, and retains an element of affirming people and qualities which are situated outside of dominant groups.

“The survivors will envy the dead.”- N. Khrushchev

No matter how low our expectations get, it’s never enough.

According to the comments on St. Louis papers, the local community is pretty clear that she deserved to be shot to death after two assaults with a deadly weapon.

Yes, the police shooting was in self-defense.

And here I thought Alfred would be the one most likely to have a psychosis about raising child soldiers while cross-dressing.

The 3.5 D&D Book of Vile Darkness had a villain with this exact same gimmick, only using human and elven urchins.

Why are we assuming the hearing loss is the purpose instead of a side effect of the device?

Late to this discussion, but I disagree with this: “Neglecting to think of race as a factor seems irresponsible when telling a story that’s borrowed from another culture.” 

Did someone’s opinion on a song hurt your feeling, little Snowflake?

It’s like a lost verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

I am writing you from the underworld, because Harley’s Rack Rumba gif has killed me.

In 1997, I was a gay boy in high school, in a state adjacent to Tennessee. Had I been subjected to an attack like this I might have hurt myself- I certainly wouldn’t have gotten a six figure pay-out.

Cosigned.

Your Albert-erasure is very hurtful.

This. Stereotype threat- self sabotage- are real. Prejudice against yourself is beyond the imagination of many people who have never known systemic societal bias.

It is against my policy to approve racist comments in gray. I will not be approving your other one, where you claimed my statement of fact (The idea of Race has been used to harm people) is against the First Amendment and makes me a traitor to the Constitution-and thus like North Korea. That implies that you don’t…

Race was originally defined by the State- which isn’t a scientific authority.

I think we agree in terms of a non-hierarchical view of humanity, and the ways in which people of good faith use those terms. I think of the tiny phenotypic differences that comprise Race in the context of (some) of our Ancestors leaving Africa, bringing the Neanderthals and Denisovans into the family, and the ways…

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