I dunno. I know some white folks who grew up gravitating to POC because they were ostracized by white people early on, for any number of reasons. You start putting yourself in situations where most people look different from you, it’s likely you’re going to have attraction to those people too. It’s hard to define a…

Totally. This isn’t about the dogs. This is about the cops and their ability to harass a certain subset of the population and meet their arrest quotas with as little effort as possible.

“How come all of the black superheros and Zoe Saldana’s black-ish superhero died?”

You can make this argument about any number of out-of-date TV shows. The Office remains a groundbreaking comedy from a time when political correctness was not a baseline requirement, even for comedy aimed mostly at young liberals. And it’s still funny. Are we really at a point where we’re going to rope in white male…

Like I said above, in general, I agree with you. Sometimes I get obsessed with details.

I disagree with you RE Armenians and that terminology, even though I agree with and understand the terminology extends beyond actual colonization. I think that given their own history, that’s a problematic choice of language, and I stand by that. Further, it doesn’t really get to the crux of the conversation that…

Cuban Americans are a very good example of white Hispanics who are, by-and-large, of primarily European ancestry, though this is not the case for all of them, and they are much more mixed in their heritage on average than they like to admit. They are also, as you point out, often vocal in their conservatism and…

Agreed, as I said, the Jenner side fits the bill.

Yes, the police must police people. Thanks for that incredibly perspicacious observation. I don’t disagree. I do think that any rational person who witnesses the over-policing of unarmed American citizens by the under-qualified, over-equipped and uber-aggressive can agree that there’s a problem with police culture in…

This is dicey ground. Firstly, being a member of the “Caucasian race” in traditional terms would include all Iranians, Arabs, North Indians, and many Central Asians. In terms of genetic history and the ability of archaeologists to identify remains, there’s maybe a case for this, although Indians and many Arabs are at…

You see the behavior of these cops and you just know that they’d be the first ones to jump in line behind a fascist dictatorship. And I am not talking about the wannabe in the WH now, I mean the real thing. These guys were just chomping at the bit to apply a little extra unnecessary force while cosplaying actual…

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The redemptive power of time (5 years being an eternity in internet world) and white privilege

Here’s the thing, we have the letter of protest saying:

Mushrooms, especially wild mushrooms, should be washed. Definitely not soaked, but rinsed. It’s nice to pretend there isn’t anything on there you don’t want to eat, but it’s not the case that the dirt on your mushrooms is necessarily “peat moss” that’s “pasteurized”.

“that core value being the rule of law.”

Not to worry. People - especially bloggers - like to flatter their own conceit. Forget about owning up to an inability to thread together the underlying patterns in some overwrought plebian pop art like Westworld. It’s simply too gauche for our hipster masters to not have seen it all coming, like, as soon as they saw…

Look, I don’t need to make her anything. If you look at my original comment, instead of our long-ago-off-the-rails thread together, I think you’d get some reminder context. All I did was claim that lumping her in as white was perhaps not fair. I stand by that. Other articles (Here And here) have described her as a…

Neither you nor the article gets to define someone else’s ethnicity or race, and you’ve got no actual information or facts to back up your opinion. And you’re so welcome, I am glad you feel so pleased with yourself.

We’re done here, you have your perspective and I have mine.