Well, there’s always going to be those few kids who are drawn to extremism. In high school I knew a girl who went off to join a Christian doomsday cult that later got raided by the Feds for planning to assassinate the president. She dropped out before graduation and married a man 10 years our senior. It was nuts. But…

Gee, its like politics are morally complicated and we can support some actions while criticizing others!

Well, the Bosnians have suffered a lot of violence and displacement in the past few decades, and a lot of families never landed on their feet. It’s not hard to see how a terror cult like ISIS can exploit angry teenagers who feel like they don’t fit in where they are.

“Islam” is a very large category. You can’t say all of Islam oppresses women any more than you can say all of Christianity oppresses women. Yes, there are religious doctrines in lots of world religions that place women in positions of less power, and often those doctrines are exploited to oppress women. But there are…

To be fair, I’ve seen a couple of Indian people writing about how western-style yoga practice violates the spiritual point of yoga and how they’d like it to stop, but they seem to be a minority. In any case, I think most people would agree that doing concrete good for disabled students is more of a priority than…

I think the problem is that a lot of yoga teachers try to take from Hinduism and other amalgamated eastern religion-type stuff, which can be offensive. There are also a few traditional yoga practitioners from India who object to it being used as a western exercise fad because it goes against some of the beliefs of the…

I think so. The line for me is making sure you’re really commenting on something the person has put effort into, and not really their body or attractiveness. “Is that a new shirt, Janice? Looks great!” almost never plays as creepy, but “You look great in that new shirt, Janice!” sure can.

This isn’t hitting on women, this is sexual harrassment! There’s a big difference. For one, bosses need to act respectfully around their employees and not try to date them, because employees have very little power over their bosses.

In what world is the responsibility on a 16-year-old have to tell a 28-year-old to leave her alone?

I have an aunt like that (but with nuts—and she’s not allergic either). I just don’t get it. Unless a restaurant has a totally separate kitchen for allergen-free food, you are going to have cross-contamination. These people must expend a ridiculous amount of energy arguing about food.

I have celiac disease too, and literally no one is going to get sick from whatever small crumbs a toaster might emit (and if a person really is that sensitive, they probably have tons of other health problems to worry about and shouldn’t be eating out anyways). A separate toaster might be a nice thing to have at home,…

I used to have a roommate who was absolutely paranoid about leaving the crockpot on while we were away (why even bother with a crockpot then? Who knows). So it might have been her. My apologies, she was a weirdo.

I once had a speech class where another student proposed solving the problem of overpopulation by “legalizing gay people” so that “they could turn everyone else gay and people would stop having kids”

He isn’t. His brother was a student, and the professor came to work with DJ.

Well, part of the issue is that facilitated communication itself is kind of an iffy idea.

Well, stopping hormones doesn’t actually stop sexual desire all the time. Interestingly, I was just reading an article about how to prevent pedophiles from abusing children. A big part of the problem is that there’s no attempts made to stop pedophiles until after they’re already in the legal system. There’s a couple…

“Overserving” is when you allow people to consume a dangerous amount of alcohol. 7 pre-mixed cheap margaritas are not going to kill you, but they will make you too drunk to safely drive.

I think the issue is she has to record in the presence of Dr. Luke and can’t just go to her basement and turn out shit.

My point isn’t that all museums are thoughtless plunderers, but in this sort of situation (a private museum, artifacts being removed illicitly from a warzone) the artifacts will probably never return. We should also question whether its ethical at all to purchase cultural heritage from places without stable…

Well, they’re actually probably underwriting Saudi/foreign looters willing to go into Iraq to smash-n-grab artifacts.