It’s an interesting glimpse into Chinese culture. I didn’t realize this could be such a sensitive subject there. It reminds me of the reaction to that controversial commercial for a Chinese laundry detergent (although the outrage seems to have been more from people outside of China.)

These days, people will bitch about anything they don’t like. It’s one ad, showing one family. They didn’t show the entire fucking race.

Doesn’t seem THAT bad. geez.

IT’s funny AF looking at it from a 31st century viewpoint.

I’m not sure I understand those who think the apology isn’t enough and are boycotting IKEA. What WOULD be enough? This isn’t an individual who has consistently displayed bigoted behavior and is apologizing facetiously (the reason why I still haven’t forgiven Mel Gibson); it’s a company that put out an ad and pulled it…

I remember the simpler times when it was just a joke.

I don’t think he was our great hope for moral guidance. He’s our great hope for some emotional stability. I’ll go with a sane person I disagree with over an emotionally disturbed narcissist any day of the week.

What are you, Trump? Vaguely gesturing towards a lot of talk that some people are having. If you have the receipts, let’s see em.

Exploboom, if it so greatly concerns you to hear about basic powers moving between governmental branches, your concern should have been when Congress allowed the President the power to initiate military action against another nation. The Constitution is very clear that the power to initiate war lies with the Congress,…

I actually had the thought this week whether there was something wrong with me that I’ve never sent a dick pic to anyone.
Like I’m in some rare minority from what I can tell.

Anyway, I’m glad we got one more chance to hate George Bush before he died. Fuck that Republican shithead.

Found more info at pcjc.blogs.pace.edu and the scariest part is that he apparently had excellent lawyers, and extensive process, and he still went down for 3 ½ to 7 years in state prison.

It’d be great if more people agreed with you that that was the case. But they don’t.

NO... Im positive that beyond shit talking, no one in the middle class will trade down to being poor just to loose a bit of melanin. Being white makes things easier, that’s not debatable, but being white does not mean an instant ticket back to middle class.
Its took on average 30 years (thats 15 to 20 working years)…

Ok, Im going to ask you a serious question here. This is not a troll, and I am genuienly starting a dialog with you.

You claim that he experiences white privilege every day of his life.
Regardless of if this is a factual statement or gaslighting, what does his recognition of it accomplish.

I ask this because short of…

If you are middle class, by definition it is outside the realm of your experience. You realize there are black people alive today that have never been poor, right?

Imagine how much worse that’d be if you and your son were Asian, though.

I’m sure there are middle class minorities that would love to be a poor white person.

Tangential, but - I went to a Depeche Mode show in Portland Oregon last night. I was in the center of a white vortex so powerful that it could have been featured in “The Day After Tomorrow”. I pointed it out to Mrs. There Castle and she was stunned as she looked around and added “Yes and consider that with the cost of…

Thats a nice straw man you have there... got your lighter ready?

Your view is just as naive as any redneck that assumes all crime in his area is perpetrated by the blacks in the community on the other side of the tracks. Its scapegoating and nothing more.

Our society is not all that different from the monarchies of…

Because Salon approaches topics in a similar way to Fox News, only with liberal bias instead of conservative bias. They are poorly written, poorly researched, poorly premised, and riddled with appeals to emotion. I’m not going to accuse them of the blatant lies and misinformation that is spread by Fox News, but to use…