But it's so much fun to jump to conclusions!

It is illegal for kid to be denied education. In the worst cases teens work rather than going to school. The fines are meant to stop that. But they do nothing to address the poverty that drives teens to work (sometimes in black market economies)

In addition, the crappy nature of most schools for poor students makes…

You are proposing regulating reproductive freedom. It's just as sexist as wanting to ban abortion.

I went to her blog. I was OK.

You are not alone I don't see what people are talking about at all she looks very thin to me. And VERY fit. I bet she works out a LOT.

Yes

It makes some people really squirm when they hear talk of rape. That keeps a lot of people quiet.

I knew he was bad but this has me floored. You think this is a lark? They never caught the four men who raped me. But I had sooooo much fun pointing fingers. Right.

In fact I was terrified of looking at line-ups since I was roofied and I had few clear memories. I was so scared of pointing out the wrong brothers to a…

Has looking up someone's past in that way ever helped anyone? I say this as a woman who was raped — I can't see any way that this would help. It just seems to be a focal point for moral indignation.

What if it isn't true?

This is how I feel about DUIs and hit and runs....

No DUIs should stay forever.

I've found other black women to be among the most eager to learn.

"Sorry, but you're saying that it's okay to be especially attracted to a certain race unless you use the word "race", which would make it racist."

No. If someone says "Guy with really dark skin and white teeth are sooo cute." they are not saying "black guys are sooo cute" since only a few black men meet the description.

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Google might not be the best way to learn. It is hard to know where to turn... but this criticism should help. If they do it again then it is clearly bigotry based in hate rather than ignorance.

The average level of education is very low. Ignorance is not any kind of excuse. But, it can often be corrected whereas hate…

Why define it in terms of race if it is not really about race? Making a blanket statement about how attractive a whole race is (or "tends to be" if you want) is the essence of racism.

It's basically saying "In general I think this group is superior to these other groups " Even with "especially attracted to one race"…

I did not grasp it until I read an article like this one as a teen. So, it can be ignorance rather than contempt.

"(oh, he might have, that's part of that more genderfluid narrative)"

Thanks for including this. Some of us do experience gender and/or sexuality as a "choice"
that could go in one of many ways. It seems it's not common but it feels good to not be invisible because whoever I read "gender is never a choice!" or…

This is all well and good for individuals ... but obsessing over a race or rejecting a race is not the same thing as falling for a person or failing to fall for a person.

" but I have black friends who refuse to date black girls and I can assure you that they aren't racist"

Racism can be internalized. If you ask them why I wager the answer will be a string of stereotypes.