Here’s my question though — the narrative is that Asian culture and music have permeated American culture and consciousness to a massive degree, but the fact that there are very few American artists of Asian descent in the mainstream is somehow proof that Americans are racist towards Asian-Americans? By this logic,…

Hold up. Dude...the British Empire? For real? America has plenty to answer for, but the reality is your nation’s history just isn’t any better with respect to racist, expansionist military action.

Your entire argument has been centered on not breaking the law, any law, no matter the content; you even said Rosa Parks should have been punished for her act of protest. Now I can only assume you realize the problem you’ve created for yourself when it comes to reckoning with objectively evil laws, such as those that…

Ahh yes. The cracks are showing. You don’t care about people but you do presumably care about laws on the basis that they produce stability which...protects people?

Do you really subscribe to the idea that any group of people has any fundamental characteristic “hardwired into their DNA”? On the basis of a system of categorization (race) that’s as close to meaningless in genetic terms as a characteristic can be?

The INS doesn’t exist anymore - not sure if that was your point, but if so then you understand that by eliminating one and creating a new one, we don’t have “another” we still have one. 

Too many strong feelings for me to add much to this conversation. The books and movies were both very good, made for different audiences in different times with different attention spans and expectations; what Tolkien did, in terms of creating languages, a deep history, and what I thought were compelling characters,…

Julius Thomas is being released because he has played poorly. Michael Thomas is going to get picked up by another team, but teams usually don’t resign veteran players who are purely special teamers, because the salary cap is a thing and veterans have high minimum salaries. Thomas simply doesn’t play enough to be…

Rih-Nanny is all I needed to make it to the weekend.

Same can be said for whites. Especially in the south.

You do realize Jemele Hill very publicly and very firmly made it clear that this did not happen, correct?

You do realize Jemele Hill very publicly and very firmly made it clear that this did not happen, correct?

Foster-Wallace hardly counts as a conservative. The idea that he might now qualify as a “conservative thinker” for expressing interest in some “conservative ideals” like the primacy of individual agency is ludicrous to me. Ayn Rand is a different story, as is Buckley, but the fact that Infinite Jest is being upheld as…

The worst part about that ending is that it’s not how the book ended. Unnecessarily nihilistic.

I mentioned that at the beginning.

I feel bad about having written it. I don’t mean to attack you, I just felt compelled to point it out.

Sub-Saharan Africa is simply the term for Africa south of the Sahara. It’s dominated by three specific language families - distinct from anywhere else in the world - and has a specific set of genetic lineages that are distinct from North Africa and again, from anywhere else in the world. Academics and population…

Good for her from the perspective of fighting colorism, especially given that Wakanda is meant to be an untouched, thoroughly sub-Saharan country. She would have been visibly out of place.

Malema isn’t the one who is going to make the policy. His whole platform is based on the destruction of any form of reconciliation. He has been outspoken in his desire to perform exactly the type of land grabs that happened in Zimbabwe, and has done so on more than one, very public occasion. The whole idea that…

Not sure I understand use of the word “droll” here — is it a typo? Based on context, seems like it’s intended to mean run-of-the-mill or mundane, but that wouldn’t work. Is it supposed to be “dull”?