Yes, it’s the studio, producers, and director. But ScarJo chose to take the part, so she is still complicit. And any other white actress who took the part would have also been complicit. While she is not the cause of the problem, signing onto it is making her part of the problem and benefiting from it. The financial…

You’re being pedantic. The right says both “lazy Mexicans” and ‘Immigrants take ‘our’ jobs” (including the very Mexicans they want a border wall for).   Are you really defending cognitive dissonance?

But it’s kind of true. And I live in the Midwest. There are unfortunately a lot of people here who are quick to co-opt 9/11 and worry about terrorists who generally strike targets with lots of people (i.e. cities). But these same people won’t even step foot in their closest cities, much less NYC, because of…

No. You don’t win an election simply because you are the only adult in the room. You have to earn your vote. Hillary failed to acknowledge that and took what’s left of the Democratic base for granted. Clintonian “New Democrat” politics screwed the middle and those working-class white folks that were a huge part of…

1. Comparing Trump to Hillary is a false equivalency. Clinton is a charlatan - like most politicians. Personally I am a liberal who has never supported Hillary Clinton and believe that the “New Democratic” movement ushered in by the Clintons was horrible for the Democratic party in the long term, and we are currently…

I know the feeling. I had one with a Trump supporter on FB - but it was almost the opposite problem. The guy used big words without knowing what they actually meant, and apparently didn’t expect that I would call him out on it. I got tagged on that guy’s post in the first place by someone else who seemed to think…

McDonalds has been sued for making people fat, but of course those don’t generally go anywhere.

I think the coverage of Politico’s article was sound, but your conclusion that it shouldn’t have mattered completely misses the point.

Except it’s actually true. Mainstream feminism never wanted WOC at the table. That is nothing new. And at the end of the day, race trumps gender for an uncomfortable number of white women, but they don’t want to own it.

I sense you might be British? In the US, “fanny” is buttocks, not female genitalia.

Connect the dots - let’s do that.

Lochte tore up a gas station and somehow *he* is the victim? GTFO. Getting a gun pulled on you for something like that isn’t just a third world thing. Try that at an inner-city convenience store here in the US. Lochte’s lucky he didn’t get shot.

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You can't speak for everyone's experience with atheists. I went to graduate school and the majority of my classmates, students, and professors were atheist or agnostic. So it's not like oh I knew one asshole atheist - yes some were quiet, but many were not, and very openly judgmental of those with religious faith. As…

But IRL plenty of people in America DO marry interracially. The fact that in all these seasons the Bachelor/ette has not found people who are open to interracial dating tells me that it's not a "just so happens" - that is by design.

America is not an all-white country, so it makes sense that people would want shows like the Bachelor to reflect that. If you want your media segregated, read Stormfront.

There are a lot of people who have a race preference including others in this thread but you say this biracial woman is anti-black? Or is it only women of color who aren't entitled to have a preference?

Newsflash - the NBA has a dress code too.

Reminds me of the strip mall near my pastor's house where there was a Jenny Craig next to a Little Caesars.

The players are not boycotting because they have too much at stake. From their perspective, they have trained much of their lives for a short window of opportunity. It takes a lot to put that on the line and risk being disciplined by the league or blackballed by other owners (who may think like Sterling but just…