Oh, my mistake. I thought you were arguing that support of Native Americans was somehow invalid because you believed said support was insufficiently organic or comprehensive.

Oh, wait: that’s EXACTLY what you were arguing, and it’s fallacious reasoning.

Not to mention “it’s what we’re use to.”

“It’s an inescapable fact of life that the more successfully a population can be forgotten and marginalized, the less human they are!” —CommunistSaga’s point, distilled.

Yeah, let’s not work to break down the social structures in which rapists operate - and which excuse rape by alcohol as simply “getting laid” in order to normalize it - and just tell women to avoid those structures.

/snark

That’s a common misconception. Brainwashing techniques work best and fastest on alert, intelligent, questioning minds.

Critical thinking and intelligence does not insulate you from being swept up in a cult. It makes you more susceptible.

“The easiest people to recruit are ones with alert, questioning minds who want to debate issues with other people. You take a strong-willed, strong-minded person and put them into a cult environment…

I must just be a stupid old, because when I can’t afford something I want, I either save up or go without. I don’t steal it and offer as my excuse for doing so the toddler-like cry of “but I waaaaaant it!”

By participating in that, you’re exploiting the fact that most artists are passionate enough to make art even if…

Kim Davis is a Democrat.

He needs to carry more than the automatic Republican voters to win.

Romney had all those people, and he lost. McCain had an even better coalition, and lost.

translation: I was more comfortable before I realized that simply refraining from participating in active evil-doing is not the definition of virtue.

And this, talkin’ about our current President, if you can call him a President, we call him a Presidon’t here in Iowa, don’t we? This Presidon’t has to make sure to be speaking all the time with, you know, other people write those words, and with the words he’s saying, he has to be saying those to be using a…

“I never believed it when people or news reports or anything else mentioned that systemic racism is continuing to poison Western civilization, but now that someone called my friend a nigger, I’m here to tell you all that RACISM DOES EXIST. You are all allowed to believe in it now. Sincerely, Sam Smith.”

That’s why…

HAHAHAHAHAHA no.

Her conclusion is right w/r/t BET, but her reasoning is utterly ridiculous.

I met Antwaan Randle El when we were both in our early 20s (he wouldn’t remember me; we had a brief conversation after an introduction by a mutual friend).

He was a charming, intelligent, sharp dude who exuded athleticism (he was drafted by the Cubs, but he was also on a Bobby Knight-coached Indiana basketball squad -…

Do you love it even in light of the exceedingly poor writing and thinking shown in the above emails?

These people make laws, for fuck’s sake. When you pay them nothing, you’ll get idiots like this guy in the legislature.

He didn’t have consent, and he knew he didn’t. He just thought he could “wear you down” until you’d stop actively saying “no.”

That’s rape in my book. If that makes people uncomfortable because it’s familiar, the proper response is not to simply exclude this from the definition of rape so that you won’t feel that way…

When I was a kid, my father told me that Ira Gershwin had two penises. “Bipenile” was his exact descriptor.

I believed this, without question, until I was in my twenties.

“It’s just streetball these days!”

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that . . .