I’ve known for a while that being white means you have it pretty good in this country compared to minorities, but until today I had no clue just how fucking good it is to be white.

And now we’re getting to the larger underlying problem. The GOP, which loves to repeat the screed that Liberals like to create problems that didn’t exist before in order to expand the size and scope of Government, have spent the last couple Congressional cycles in the majority sitting on their hands and doing nothing,…

That was sickening. But wasn’t that presaged by Kerry being swift boated? Granted, Cleland’a situation was worse (iirc), but I think the swift boat thing showed that vets weren’t untouchable when you build a voter base that selectively accepts/decides “the truth.”

That’s fucking nuts. Fucking. Nuts.

One of my teachers, back when I was in school, used to say all the time when discussing the law, “We don’t have a justice system. We have a legal system. When the law and justice intersect, that’s a happy coincidence, not the baseline”.

So, just so we are clear here is a quick summary of Tammy Duckworth’s life:

No. Trump is where he is because the GOP has spent the last forty to fifty years in a state of denial over the demographic shift in the country. Rather that accept the forecast of a progressively “browner” America in a rational way and begin to embrace the basic civil rights of ethnic minority groups even at the risk…

The hell’s going on here?

“Terrorism declared legal for white people.”

**bookmarks for post-Thanksgiving dinner argument when racist relative says white privilege isn’t real**

This is unbelievable. Good job to my home state of Oregon for filling a jury pool with fucking idiots. Good job to the federal prosecutors for also being fucking idiots.

They were thinking about voting for Ben Carson, before he dropped out.

Aw. Poor little muppet. Everyone finally started figuring out he has no clothes and now he has to actually try to defend his “policies” but can’t!

And again, I can look forward to the cool kids in my Facebook feed rationalize this one. Note: They have not done well so far.

A lot of people in this country are super racist, but since “racist” is generally considered to be a negative character trait in our society at this point, and because they cannot tolerate the merest suggestion that they might be “wrong” in any way, they will squirm like a coyote in a spring trap to avoid such a…

White, Republican, suburban or rural women—they are functionally racist (make a point of living in white communities, send their children to white-only or majority schools, attend white-only or majority churches, think drugs penalties should stay the same or get harsher) but still have the Republican out of pretending…

It’s the same idea that stupid people aren’t aware of how stupid they are. I think none of these people care about self-introspection or improvement. It’s an uncomfortable truth to think that one is stupid/racist/sexist/misogynist...at least for some people.

They do not see themselves as racist. They are good people, they have black church friends. To them racism is the act or statements that are worse than anything they do. The majority of people who have internalized racist beliefs and bias do not see themselves as such. That takes having external feedback on their…

Oh no, there is a wide range of racists and he is going after the self identified nonracist racists. They believe everything that racists believe, in private company. They remain silent in polite company and the only POC they know are the those Nigerian men some young women from church married, whom they have shared…