It’s exhausting that so many people on the left thought the riot was a win for the left. The right could not have asked for a better outcome.

Not to be “that guy”, but literally the last high profile person from the “right” that tried to speak at Berkeley was not able to because a large mob of people started a riot and burned shit down and assaulted people.

So we all agree that the concept of safe spaces is laughable.

I work at an integrated marketing agency and shit like this horrifies me. “Win at all costs” is a bad strategy because it is not sustainable, and those people you burned will be the ones you pass on the way back down. This is a very old-fashioned way of doing things with a very thin veneer of “the internet does it!”

“He doesn’t think it’s “less than” because of who lives there. That’s stupid. He thinks it’s “less than” because it’s over there and not here.”

Former Hawaiian resident here and I agree with you - it was not racist. Everybody claiming that it was racist is lolo - looking for something that isn’t there simply because the guy is a certified racist. Hawaii is seen as exotic and detached from the mainland - because it is. When you live in the Pacific, you aren’t…

Yeah I get your point... I really do.

Not getting the racist part. Not in a “I see how it could be offensive but I disagree with your opinion so I’m being willfully ignorant” kind of way but in a “I genuinely don’t understand the comment and hope someone will explain” kind of way. Whenever this happens I never know how to ask for clarification without…

I don’t want to speak for the OP, but I think what she is saying is that women shouldn’t only direct women’s stories. For example, look at Big Little Lies. Women leads, but it was directed and written by a man. Does it make it any less a women’s story? Does it make it any less feminist? No, it doesn’t. If we only…

I’m not worried about men, friend, I’m worried about ghettoizing women’s work. Relegating it to a special women-only wing of the vast entertainment empire.

To be honest, sometimes I get itchy over the women directors for women’s stories refrain. It can start to feel like we’re isolating stories about women, declaring them things that only women can understand, and thereby reinforcing the idea that men can’t enjoy or relate to them. And yet women can relate to men’s…

Oh, I dunno:
- trying to get home to see a family member on their deathbed, or witness the birth of a child
- a court date for child custody or some other serious legal issue
- a serious medical condition requiring specialist treatment in another city

I can think of a million reasons that someone can’t be bumped off a flight to a later flight, but the truth is, literally everyone can. Do you know how I know? If the flight was cancelled or delayed due to weather, these people would sit back and accept their bad luck.

I mean, it really depends on what kind of doctor we’re talking about, and if there is no backup. Like, is he a surgeon who needs to be present for a surgery in which he is an expert? Or a dermatologist who is plumping lips?

Lots of people have serious obligations—just because one’s profession is perceived as important…

What about someone rushing home to see a sick relative? Or a bride/groom going who is getting married the next morning? Is he a brain surgeon or is he a family doctor treating minor injuries and ailments? Are there other providers in his practice who can cover for him? Surely there’s some system in place to cover his…

Not excusing anyone’s behavior, but I can think of a lot of people whose obligations might be considered just as important. Importance is relative, which is why people are selected at random and the decision not left up to an individual who gets to decide whose obligations matter most.

I actually agree with most of the outrage at this story. However, the doctor/more important obligations is where I jump off the bandwagon. Most people have important obligations. Should an EMT have been exempted too? I know it’s not you. Everyone has been saying “He’s a DOCTOR, with patients!” I just don’t see…

I’m a woman. I believe a pay gap exists. I also was personally offended by the man-splaining label.

Because having an honest and open conversation doesn’t work when people are trying to silence people who disagree with them.

I said it to someone else in this thread, so now I’ll direct it back towards you: