I actually had a (white) lady say I was profiling her because I told her not to eat her salad in the library. I explained that we only allow snack foods,and salad does not fit that. I can’t profile a food.

Yeah, if they won’t call the play right on replay, then what’s the point of doing the replay?

Its rough when they’re your family and don’t believe you. Like one of my friends is from Shreveport, LA and is black. She said she was taught to be overly respectful to whites because she didn’t know what they’d do to her. Stuff like not looking directly in people’s eyes, not giving them any excuse to believe she was…

Whoot! A Legend of Zelda reference!

Thank you! I think Major up thread had a more succinct explanation - possibly more positive?

Yay! Love those people.

Could you also say that everyone was fucked, but black people were fucked more because they weren’t even allowed to participate in SSI or other social programs at the same time as their white counterparts?

Agreed- but I don’t think they are totally wrong in that their situations can be shit, but not acknowledging that there aren’t as many obstacles in their way as someone who is black or brown in a similar situation makes their whole argument moot. That’s the aggravating part to me.

That’s an excellent way to explain it. I would always try to say that white privilege doesn’t erase individual experiences with poverty, medical issues, etc before I try to explain what you just did so well. I think those examples are part of it - but if you say it’s the lack of systematic obstacles, you can give…

Some people will still think you're lecturing. Or won't get the joke...

OMG trying to explain what ‘white privilege’ means to my family is a fucking chore. White privilege doesn’t mean that white people don’t have to work hard for what we have, or that white people’s poverty doesn’t exist. Its that white people’s poverty is seen through a more sympathetic lens. That our hard work is…

Pats offense looked like shit against the bills - they only scored 9 pts. Only the special teams saved the day for them and Allen’s shitty tendency to not throw the ball away. 

The crawlers are pretty common sights in old hospitals. For some reason, they are spotted a lot in TB hospitals/ residences. I love watching those ghost story shows, and whenever they’re talking about a place that worked as a TB residency, there’s always one of these guys around. The way they’re described is creepy as…

I feel like its a little of this, a little of that...

The Bible, Johnny, the Bible 

Karlan did an amazing job talking about that - because it’s not just talking about the sex of the partner - it is talking about the way we, as a society, place certain behaviors on people of a certain gender (or in the 60's, sex). So if the expected behavior for a man is to marry a woman, but he instead marries a man,…

Karlan argued that by firing men for being in a sexual relationship with a man, but not firing women for the same is discrimination based on sex. It’s not changing the definition of sex as understood in the sixties, but it is challenging how that form of discrimination is experienced.

Well, in the general sense, yes, but not in the specifics. Also, not all Israelis are Jews. And Israel has not been abandoned by its western allies in the same way the Kurds have.

Yup, we can go that route. I have no problems with that. But this gleeful dissection is kind of gross to me.

“Age is a state of mind” does have some truth to it. There are people who may be quite old but still sharp as ever. Still able to take on what’s to come.