She scammed a non-profit for at least some of the vet bills, so there’s that.

Then you should ask Jezebel to correct their article: “But the teachers suing the company say that the promotion only stated dresses were available “while supplies last” and had no idea there were so few to be given away.” That reflects the language in the lawsuit. If the lawsuit is making Draper James look better…

The original post did have that disclaimer, as stated in this article and the suit itself. They are arguing that there were an unreasonably low number of supplies. There’s no legal threshold for that, so they’ll lose. 

“Bullying a company” is one way to phrase it. “Advocating for your cause” is another. “Recruiting people to join a legitimate and justified boycott” is also accurate.

It’s meritless. The only way this would be valid is if there was a promise that everyone who applied would get a dress. “While supplies last” covers that, which this suit acknowledges. It’s a garbage suit, and these lawyers are scamming their clients more than DJ/RW did.

Mace Windu is not a racist caricature and while elements of Mulan and Pocahontas’ storytelling have come under fire, neither are those characters are caricatures either. And you missed my point about Rooney and Othello, clearly, which was about extrapolating the line connecting one to the next and avoiding needlessly…

You can believe, if you want, that I am lying about my memories of the time while being accurate in your recollection of your ignorance - and that Trudeau is “backpedaling,” catachrestic as that is - but it was wrong when he did it, just as blackface was wrong in the 1930s. Moreover is was widely known to be wrong, if…

How hollow are our lives when we are looking to makeup salespeople for guidance?

“Ever hear of Stonewall?”

Put less contentiously, consider the possibility that rather than me lying about my recollection of my adult understanding of the world, in order to make my pseudonymous self look good to pseudonymous strangers, you are not recognizing the limitations of your then-adolescent understanding of the world. And again, you…

I wasn’t even a little bit “woke” then. I was literate. You were apparently 13 and an ignoramus.

I was older than both of you at the time. It was very much known to be wrong. Spike Lee’s Bamboozled came out the year before: the issue was in the public consciousness. Trudeau was a drama teacher, and should have been aware of the conversations around how to portray Othello, for instance (which I remember having in…

No, he did not send in militarized police into BC. The RCMP were enforcing a Provincial court’s order, which Trudeau has no jurisdiction over. Additionally, the talks that were agreed to that did resolve the immediate crisis were predicated nation to nation status and the legitimacy of indigenous title. From the joint…

Damnit! Yes, of course.

Wow! It’s almost like analogies are not the thing itself, and can’t perfectly capture every nuance of the thing they’re intended to represent! And it’s almost like pettigogging semantic arguments are the exact thing a concern troll would do to derail a conversation! I dunno, just making observations.

The statement Black lives matter should be completely controversial. It demeans no one, and implies nothing about the worth of other people. The urge to deliver a retort to it, or water it down in any way, is racist. Full stop. No assumptions required.

Most journalists have the following process:

He doesn’t owe you anything.

Did not own, but were still profiting from it, and for whom Krasinski earned money, if indirectly.

If ever the phrase OK Boomer was needed, it is needed now.