Cultural appropriation is neutral anyway. Whether it’s good or bad or in between depends on the details. Using the term by itself is useless when discussing harmful behavior. It’s more efficient and clearer to just go into those said details and not use the term at all actually.

Agreed with all of this. Crushing unions is a dumbass thing to do and is something he should be thumped on the nose for until he quits. On the other hand, he has done great things to advance space travel and support Puerto Rico, and it’s not like all that is chopped liver. Like most people, he is some good and some…

I hope she gets a nice big settlement, as do the girls. She wasn’t tresspassing or resisting shit, she has every right to film unless she is expressly preventing the officer from “executing his duties” which was covered by the backing up.

But how can they be POlice and then moonlight as something else and use the POlice shield to arrest when they are on the “job” as something else all together.

I saw a thread on that this morning; he’s not local PD, apparently, but SWAT.

I think it’s important to air things like this to disabuse Americans of the assumption that anyone with an English accent is automatically smarter than they are.

Each and every one of those names sounds like it should be employed in some fashion at strip club. Dancer, bouncer, barback, dj...

I apologise if my answer was insufficient. In my opinion, there is no benefit from a white person using the word. The cost/benefit analysis is moot because saying the word automatically places the discussion in bad faith. There are sufficient avenues for white people to discuss said epithet without saying them to…

The word should never be said as the connotation when spoken by white people will always be hurtful despite intent. There are plenty of ways to have a dialogue about it without saying it. Even if you did not want to say “N-Word,” you could use the word slur or epithet. I promise you that black folks are familiar…

Oppression is not limited to physical violence. Oppressive political regimes may use violence, but the mere THREAT of violence is a non-physical, psychological component of oppression. He was trying to push buttons. SAY THAT... but don’t tell students that he is NOT OPPRESSING THEM, when they are telling him that he…

He does not have a point, and if he does, it’s on the top of his head.

Making someone uncomfortable is not oppression

What’s disingenuous is pretending that black students needed to be taught by their white professor how they totally didn’t understand that word. Come the fuck on.

By that logic you shouldn’t sign up for a class on human anatomy if you aren’t willing to be dissected.

Well said.

Well said...but too nuanced for some.

There’s a problem with what you’re saying however.

The thing about oppression is that it is a sum of the whole. I’ve never had someone burn a cross on my lawn, but I have been faced with the subtle prejudices and slights that are the hallmark of institutionalized racism every single day. Oppression is not just the broad strokes, it’s just as much the light dabs, if…

Ah, so YOU get to determine whether “outrage” is genuine or not? Fun!

A 15 year old girl is a person- not an object. To be given instructions is not the same thing as someone not treating you like a person.