There is a book called Witnessing Whiteness. It is a good place to start.

everyone in this thread is in a time out

But she’s on the list. She’s a smug, rich, insulated idiot who imagines herself to be a great political philosopher of the left. Nothing in her privileged and graceful life has ever exposed her to real risk or hardship. I’m sure she can endure a few tweets from Debra Messing.

I’m a Fed scientist at the USDA. We’ve had steady growth since a reorganization of 2008 (while others had layoffs) and finally started hiring again in the past year and a half. I don’t know what this does but the heads say the outlook is not good.

As a medical student interviewing for OBGYN residencies right now, it’s encouraging that ACGME requires OBGYN residencies to offer opt OUT not opt in abortion training. Not that all do mind you, but I’m in the DEEP south and our residents are trained. Great organizations to support that are working to make sure there…

In addition to harassing this doctor, Marsha and her gang of Skooby Doo wannabes have harassed and intimidated researchers performing legal, potentially life-saving research using fetal tissue. Eugene Gu is one of them. They sent a goon squad into his home without a warrant to “look for evidence”, and the negative…

This was a part of Hillary’s speech that didn’t make it into the above article. I want to tell you something: MLK was wrong. The moral arc of our universe does not bend toward justice. Our societies, our institutions, our people, do not bend toward justice as if that’s the final state of things.

I’m with Chomsky on this.

Yeah. This is one reason I fucking hate Kubrick and have literally trashed casual friendships over people defending this in the name of art. (I’ve trashed more longstanding friendships over Polanski but that’s a different matter.)

That’s true. Here’s an interesting New York Times article about it http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/us/time-for-supreme-court-to-overrule-korematsu-verdict.html

Just wow, the US can never call itself the leader of free world . I am getting mad at a lot of politicians who are downplaying how fucked up this is, you guys have elected a fascist.

Just a reminder...

WHEN SOME SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM THE FIRST TIME - Maya Angelou (SHOUTING BY ME)

I wonder if we could run the whole executive branch on benevolent neglect. We could save the world if we could transform the situation to Big Brother: The White House. (“Today’s challenge: President Trump and his hand-selected White House staff, increasingly peckish after running out of packets of sugar and non-dairy…

Do you see how this response is exactly what Gelman was talking about? Instead of looking inward to examine your own biases, you presume someone is “talking down” to you when he’s discussing his own experience and asking for a greater variety of voices to work with and watch.

Start with Bill Maher who thinks that the reason that we lost the election is because liberals are too politically correct. Note that white straight men are never subjected to hate speech, so how the hell should he know about the shit that the rest of us go through?

Yes. Also, consider the section of the exit poll (NYT link below) where they broke down the vote by “Family Financial Situation” For those whose family financial situation is “Better Today” Clinton won 72-24. For those who said it was “about the same” it was tied 46-46. For those who said it was “Worse Today”…

I know I posted earlier, but did some more research on the quote of