If that’s your honest takeaway, you’re oversensitive to criticism, and tone deaf to criticisms of societal power structures.

“Structural power matters.” Yes it does. Thank you for this. I’m learning, too, that I was assuming everyone understood how violent this woman was being, and the traumatic affect her words would have. Your reply to gigglesticks was beautiful, painful and accurate. I guess different life experiences give us…

No.

No.

Here, allow me to demonstrate what a hostile comment looks like:

Read the title of the article again. Everyone is surprised (key word) EXCEPT Black doctors. Yes, we all know discrimination n racism is wrong no matter whom it’s directed at, but this article was written from the perspective of Black Doctors. I myself am a Black RN (Registered Nurse) working on my doctorate of nursing…

Here’s our fundamental difference of perspective: IMO this article is not a news story about brown people and thus requires no mention of brown people. The original video showed a white woman victimizing a medical facility filled with brown people. Yesterday The Root ran an article covering that. Cool. This article,…

But, why is this special? These sites use older/recent articles as launch points for tangential and secondary articles all the time. That’s exactly what happened here: They ran an article yesterday on the video itself. Today, another author ran an article piggybacking off the original, adding the perspective of Black…

The article and the headline told you the exact premise of the essay. Also embedded within the article is the story as originally reported. I fear you misunderstood both articles. I knew what the theme would be and read the article first and then read the original report. I conflated the two in my mind which gave me…

The victims of an unwarranted, unprovoked attack should treat the assailant and her child with more care and respect than she has afforded them. I see. I also see that this woman’s words were not enough for you and you have added ‘savages’ to the mix and doubled down on your desire to protect whiteness above all…

You can still sit with us. Words are words regardless of the target audience, but it’s also usually a safe space to have a discussion outside of the usual marginalization. So while everyone is always invited, it’s rough when an article gets cross posted and the BUT ACTUALLY crew shows up to say we’re being too Black…

I am a white male in Canada (in the same city as the ranting idiot, sorry to say). I do not have a family doctor, and go to a nearby walk-in clinic when I need to.

I wasn’t offering advice, and I can’t put my own preferences on all of the U.S. I’m likely more handsy than most of my countrymen;)

This. All the this. Please sit in that ‘but’ for a beat. Best advice ever. Applies to many situations.

No, you don’t have to nitpick here. You are choosing to make your own qualifications of the article hitting or missing a mark that you have defined because you feel entitled to do so. This article was written by an African American author and posted to The Root, an online magazine which centers African American…

Perhaps s/he will take the people who work at the clinic as role models.

Does anyone else feel sad for the child that has to grow up with this woman as a role model?

“blatant behaviour like that is on the rare side up here”

Can you imagine *feeling* like this? That whiteness itself could be the panacea that will solve your kid’s chest pain? So she must believe her whiteness is built to improve all situations as well. White supremacy is sooooo illogical. You can’t argue with crazy, so she will continue to dare people to slap her in public…

>>>”“Oh, my God, what type of horrible country do I live in?” the woman ranted. “Being a white person in this country, I should just shoot myself.”