Well said.

Well, thanks!

Well, that makes one of us. I can think of few things more horrifying than how I would look in those clothes. If you would look fabulous in them and enjoy them, well, then dress like Effie Trinket all you like!

There is nothing wrong with having sex with your cousin or marrying your cousin or breeding with your cousin. People have done that forever. Go read some Regency or Victorian literature. Or later stuff, 20th century stuff — like Gone with the Wind. It seems all people did was marry their cousins! In terms of…

Did you think this attack had a racial/racist component? I did. I thought the attacker was clearly mentally ill, and that she had some racist motivations.

Oh, yeah. I remember that from when I was in college. I had the hottest, most in-shape older (older! He was probably in his 40s!) professor from Israel. That accent! Those piercing brown eyes! Those lean, firm muscles rippling under his shirt. That wavy dark hair, just lighly sprinkled with silver. It was a…

Well said. Bravely said.

I KNEW you were the kid of academics. It takes one to know one. Listen, we ALL have a lot to learn. Learning never ends.

Your mom is white and Jewish and your dad is black, right? Which parent is an academic, or are both? Anyway, I am sure neither one of them is thrilled that you are dating a gay who thinks he can say the n-word. Obviously, you don't have to do what your parents say, but it's probably hard for them

Sounds like you're hanging out with some good people. Keep it up. You should DEFINITELY be with people who are studying in Paris and visiting Germany! I haven't been to either place in years.

Nice — you are not white and you think that white people cannot have people be prejudiced against them. So you are a racist.

Oh, nice. You wrote, "for the record, I don't think that I'm going to get an EEOC complaint against me once I'm in the workforce. I'm not that type of person."

This is what confused me — you wrote, "I know that lol, but my friends went to Russia and visited Chernobyl."

Wonderful! That woman DEFINITELY needs to be away from her kids.

Um, are you saying Anne Hathaway is not good-looking? Well, that's your opinion and you are entitled to it. However, you seem to think that it's a crime or a sin not to be good-looking. I don't know why you ever mentioned it — it is supposed to MEAN something, that she is not a good-looking woman? And, of course,…

Well that's not sexist at all! And who allegedly is ugly here?

One thing you need to know NOW is that racism can and does exist against white people. It also exists within minority groups against other members of that minority group. You think you are liberal and open-minded — the only thing that prevents me from thinking you are a total idiot is that you are a teenager. Let…

Doesn't it? I kind of feel a teensy bit bad — but not really. One day Bakerlex might — MIGHT — remember this thread and cringe in embarrassment. She won't be able to believe she didn't think racism could exist against white people (this will come after she gets her first EEOC complain, most likely). I still CANNOT…

Well said, Vikrum. I am impressed. Reverse racism IS racism and I have NO IDEA why some people insist that it doesn't exist.

Chernobyl is in Ukraine — not Russia. Your friends went to Russia and then they went to another country — Ukraine. In Ukraine, they visited Chenobyl (brave of them!). But although Chernobyl USED to be in Russia because Ukraine used to be part of Russia and part of the Soviet Union, now Ukraine is its own country —…