Black Lives Matter is a statement of FACT. The idea that an entire segment of a society’s statement that their lives matter contrary to how they are treated is somehow some political message that needs to be squashed is not a legitimate argument. The opposite, is not a statement that anyone should be making so this is…

You’re right, this was an unfair swing at Vampire Diaries and the beauty of the cast, I apologize.

You’re talking about white people here. They know what goes down when they get together to “celebrate” whiteness, so anyone else getting together to celebrate their non-whiteness clearly means the same.

Eric “Vampire Diaries” Trump

He exudes smug.

I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to endorse BLM, provided its explicit raison d’etre.

So acknowledging that Black lives matter is a political statement but disregarding Black lives isn’t? Is that the argument you’re going with?

Also, does Maher toss around “bitch” the same way, since many raps also contain that word? I doubt it since the category of “bitch” may also contain white people and, well, that’s “different...”

This shit seems bizarre to me. Look up the three original creators of BLM movement and its stated six basic demands. I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to endorse BLM, provided its explicit raison d’etre.

I guess that pretty much sums it up.

Our ability to do whatever we want is more important to us than respecting others.

It’s like a beagle. Tell a beagle it can’t have a cube of cheese. The dog will follow you around stealing cheese at every opportunity. It’ll find a way to get into the refrigerator. It’ll dig through the trash for the tail end of a sandwich. It’ll see you with cheese and follow you around relentlessly. It knows you…

Bet they wouldn’t have a problem with it, if it was a “thin blue line”pin.

What is with white people’s obsession with wanting to say that word?

God, damn. The theme of 2017 is apparently “how the fuck is it that we still need to discuss this?”

We have these “yoga” mats at my gym and they’re god awful. They compress very easily to the point of zero cushioning, take a long time to recover and slide around on the floor (both hardwood & rubber). I have to fold mine 4x to get into a headstand comfortably.

We have these “yoga” mats at my gym and they’re god awful. They compress very easily to the point of zero…

It’s the “no good way around it” part that’s objectionable to me—the notion that the use of a gender-neutral pronoun is a last resort that should be avoided wherever possible.

The point is that if someone explicitly says they want to be referred to in a gender-neutral way, that should be embraced, not avoided if possible in the text as the Times wants to do—not that you can never use gendered pronouns.

If Max is not a she (or a he), it’s not clearer. You and everyone playing dumb about this are asking people to be acknowledged by pronouns that don’t apply to them, for the sake of clarity that is not needed because we have been using “they” this way for centuries.