I still know people with tell me the gender pay gap doesn’t exist. I get tired of arguing.

Amen.

These are the hindrances to letting our white men truly achieve.

Oh yeah, that’s right—so not asking for raises and being unqualified by way of Blackness.

Also, there was something about how unqualified black women are taking the high earning jobs.

Now, now, according to commenters on the Serena Williams article, the gender pay gap doesn’t exist, and if it does, it’s because women don’t ask for raises.

“When I started buying crystals, it was so out there. Not it’s trendy and everyone buys crystals”

Here is a summary of reasons people have mentioned in this thread (though thank God, pretty much everyone here does not actually hold these believes themselves). Only 1 of them is reality — Can you guess which one?
- Wait times

Bernie Sanders tried his best to explain this to people on the 2016 campaign trail.

Because the idea of socialism has been tainted for most older Americans. There was a huge effort by corporations and polticians to paint social programs as part of the red menace in the 1950's and 60's, and the idea of “bootstrap” capitalism was reinforced in the 1980's under Regan. Younger folks like a lot of the…

Because the average American is mind-blowingly stupid (by design, mind you: the GOP’s consistent push to underfund education and put people like Betsy DeVos in charge is not an accident).

Also Canadian. When I heard one of the GOP congressman go on about why prenatal care was included in ACA plans, because he doesn’t need it, I just thought “who are these selfish creeps who hate their moms that much?” And for the record, he needed prenatal care at least once.

There is no good reason.
We are collectively stupid and impressionable.

decades of propaganda and an increasing lack of education.

Most elected officials won’t go on the record supporting it, but most (or at least a large proportion) of civilians on the left support it. The average American probably has been fed so many lies about how it works, though, that they are against it because they think it will double there tax bill and mean they’d have…

It’s because conservatives have been so effective in convincing Americans than public health care is for Communists.

A question from a Canadian. From most things I hear, even American’s who identify as Democrats, or left leaning in their politics are against public health care. Why? Is it taxes? Because I mean shit, if you’re paying like a grand a month in insurance premiums I can assure you your taxes wouldn’t be that high. It just…

The mask thing is a little:

Autopsy ween.

Exactly I know it’s not technically a *sexy* boner but I really think autopsy ween should count