I am SO glad this is happening. It was a matter of time until these “laws” would be bastardized and used as a means to perpetuate misogyny. (Which is what they were really crafted for in the first place; Along with wedge-issue homophobia to be used as distraction from the sh*tshow economies and massive…

Yep. The world needs a collective lesson on gender identity and gender presentation.

Any time I read anything about bathroom policing I get that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach because I am preparing to read about an act of violence perpetuated against an LGBT person. It’s just a matter of time before it happens and it makes national news.

So glad we keep finding ways to be an openly bigoted country. Was worried that after nationally recognized same-sex marriage we were going soft there for a second

Yeah, it’s a very depressing reminder of how much sexual assault is a “modern” crime. We have literally centuries of case law about what is a regular assault or a regular battery, going back to the earliest recorded cases in the 13th century. But the idea that touching a woman’s body sexually was a distinct crime is…

Well, apparently you view your most important role as constructing fundamentally dishonest strawmen for you to summarily demolish.

Cosigned.

I disagree, both about her supporters and her actual campaign (as the First Lady of a poor white southern state once upon a time, I’m sure she’ll have no problem having a number of “I feel your pain” moments, and they’ll be honest; she does, in fact, feel their pain and her actual campaign has addressed quite a few…

Yeah. It’s frustrating. But I also find it frustrating to see privileged white people like me look at people like that and ridicule them for their stupidity without taking the time to really consider WHY someone might have a perspective like that, what circumstances led to them being undereducated, and how someone…

Steinbeck said it much better than me but I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw it. Growing up among a lot of poor white people there’s this “I worked hard for everything I had and I don’t want the government taking it away from me” mentality. I’ve never been able to explain that marginally higher taxes would make…

Agreed. But this is on the issue of Bernie supporters switching to Trump, and the thing is, whether you like it or not, people don’t vote based on what’s best for other people, even other people more disadvantaged than them. Most people vote for the candidate that they think will best defend them and their needs. It’s…

Are we playing oppression olympics here?

I’m not sure how that’s relevant. Are we playing oppression olympics here?

This is true. But I think the point stoprobbers is making is that there are other groups who are also systemically disadvantaged, and have been for much longer, and in much worse ways.

That’s because you haven’t the slightest empathy for people who are disadvantaged in many ways you are not because of their skin tone and genitalia. So, good for you on being both racist and sexist?

You should really read the article. Poor white people have good reason to feel like no one cares about them. The fact that they have racial privilege doesn’t mean that they’re not systemically disadvantaged in other ways.

It’s difficult to be the first person to break a barrier. He was sort of damned if he did and damned if he didn’t when it came to handling this country’s very obvious issues with race. He had to try be “black enough” for black people and “acceptably black” for the (sadly sizable) chunk of white people who were still…

Yup. When Trump loses, his bigoted supporters will continue to exist, even though they will no longer have an idiotic loudmouth to stand up at a podium and be their bullhorn. Like cockroaches crawling inside the walls.

This isn’t news, but Trump is a fucking idiot. Hillary would probably have twice as many votes if she were a man- I’m not a huge Hillary supporter, but it’s true. Most of her policies are moderate enough for moderate Republicans (well, until she decided she’d do the $15 thing), and she’s hawkish enough to please many…

And once again, this time with feeling: