This is a really good point, though, that I hadn’t thought of:

He has to remind the black guy that even though he’s on a trivial call about DOG HUMPING, there is still a possibility he can face legal repercussions.

I really hate appearance-shaming posts. In the overwhelming majority of the time, appearance-shaming insults are directed at women. It’s just cheap, lazy misogynism.

I guess I assumed most people have already felt just-picked cotton, and that the casing is the least important part of slavery there is.

The “carbs are bad” thing is so confusing to me! Per Science, people should eat around 50% carbs.

Why did she want them to “feel” the cotton? That is way fetishy.

his high school year book revealed him to be a die-hard shoe polish facial mask fan

because nature, competition, etc?

a soul-warming comedy

It isn’t that someone should be silenced. It’s that someone should stay silent and listen when their experience and knowledge is less than sufficient to form a well-founded opinion.

Unsurprisingly, a couple of their students have already committed rape. They don’t teach these kids right from wrong.

White people doing blackface is a white people’s problem. If we’re going to solve it, white people have to talk to white people about how easy it is not to do blackface.

She’s not wrong about that performance piece, tho.

Please get this information out there:

“They were certainly selling things monetarily that it’s against the law for even an adult to sell,” Gibbens said.

“I don’t think there’s anything that can compare with a massive public shaming like that”

We have no idea how many boys are sexually abused, and we won’t know until being a male victim of sexual abuse is destigmatized enough that boys and men can reach out for help and actually receive it. I hope that day is coming soon because it’s long overdue.

So you cart your prayer rug with you through your long, tortuous trek to the US, then you just leave it at the border? 

I love science. But there’s lived experience, too.

Whatever. I was getting headaches after eating at Chinese restaurants long before the term CRS was ever coined. When I first heard it, I thought, “So THAT’S what’s been happening.” I don’t need a fucking lab to tell me it’s real.