Eh, I grew up in a town like that to poor parents, and I think that can be a bit of a cop out. Walmarts succeeded in rural areas (and made them poorer) because they strategically and intentionally ran out smaller businesses. They also don’t pay their workers a living wage, creating more poor people. They aren’t an…

As a wypipo and a Southerner who has spent quite a bit of time in Boston, I respectfully disagree. Yankees may be more up front and (M)assholish about their racism, but I don’t think they can touch the institutionalized racism endemic in many Southern cities.

Only Paul Ryan could have managed such a coup, wringing a spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory.

I would have won the healthcare vote if you deduct the 3 million undocumented congressman who would have voted illegally.

Everyone has equal rights by law regardless of their race.

First off, red neck, hick, white trash all look to subsets of white people, separated in some way from “mainstream soceity”—it is a reflection of their relative lack of power that indicates these names can be applied to them. Which circles back—this is a discussion of power.

Thank you for a beautiful representation of his false equivalency. Have this:

Barbary slave traders weren’t Black Africans. They were the North African Arabs of the Ottoman Empire. The Barbary Slave trade, despicable as it was, was not based on race; it was more like “traditional” slavery, in that anyone could be made a slave, regardless of race. Black African slaves were also traded in the…

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…

The 100th trimester is the worst.

“We don’t need Planned Parenthood... ‘cuz we’re gonna die as misogynistic virgins.” 

no one in their right mind would ever fuck them?

To learn what their place is in society. To make them feel uncomfortable about themselves, to not actually see history or understand it, but to let them know that “they are a better fit the role as a slave.” She’s not discussing Bacon Rebellion in which indentured servants and slaves rebelled against their rich…

I see both. And while I fully understand what you’re saying, I happen to belong to a school of thought that thinks calling women sluts for dressing scantily/posing nude is not and will never be okay, regardless of what people said about Mrs. Obama for years. I simply won’t fucking condone that. It is the exact…

I don’t think he buys what he’s selling. “They’re running out of dresses” is such a simple-minded, naive fabrication that it’s almost charming, but no I honestly believe this is KILLING Donald. He pulled the mother of all cons to win King Of The World, and no one will come to his party, because no one loves him. This…

That’s why kids under five take naps. Five to ten, put on a movie and leave the room. After ten, your children don’t even want to be around you and don’t need much explanation if you want to hang out in your own room.

I do remember one rough Xmas with my mom’s family.

Exactly. In fact, cooking is easier when you clean as you go. Therefore, you won’t have a bunch of nonsense in your way. And I always have in mind that I don’t want my partner in the kitchen for hours cleaning up after me. That’s no fun.

They do this at my child’s DAYCARE. We learned (at a safety meeting just last night) that my child has been taught “quiet mouse”, in case they ever need to hide in a closet. While she was screaming in the restaurant today, I said “Can you be quiet mouse?” And she put her forefinger over her mouth and shut up real…

So a man who actually shot children was arrested and taken into custody without being killed by police? I’m going to ahead and presume that the shooter was white until I hear something definitive.