It is insanity that people don't want to acknowledge this. And also that kids cost money. It's not brain surgery!

Don't forget life/home economics skills!

The tide is turning!

But if we spent the tax money on these things, how could we afford to subsidize Wal Mart's low wages?

Bingo. Most of the money paid to the daycare center goes to insurance costs, i.e. "professional services."

Exactly. As a white person from a white midwestern town, I'm embarrassed to say that it wasn't until graduate school in my 20s when I finally understood, on a deeper level, that racism is systemic and institutional, not just some asshole spouting epithets. :/

I see what you mean, in a sense, and I'm recalling those old white Marxist dudes showing up in Ferguson and barely addressing racial injustice, totally pivoting the message to anti-capitalism. Sure. That wasn't cool.

It makes me so mad how this narrative of fear is mobilized in such a hypocritical manner. You want to be a bad ass citizen soldier, LARPing Call of Duty in your military equipment? Fine, but don't go crying about how afraid you are the minute some unarmed black person initiates the slightest resistance. Cops can't…

I do think that more white people are waking up to the fact that racism is systemic and not just interpersonal, and that colorblindness is bullshit, so I'm somewhat hopeful that we'll see large-scale pushes for institutional reform in our lifetimes.

Yeah, I agree with this. Body cameras are a band-aid solution that most non-insane people can agree on (they protect cops too, etc.). They won't solve the underlying problem of systemic racism in the criminal "justice" system, but they could eliminate ambiguity in cases like Brown/Wilson, and perhaps serve as a…

I don't think that this comment is entirely fair. She's speaking to a broader trend that implicates and underscores the author's points, not trying to turn the focus upon herself.

Anecdotally, this is definitely true at my institution. Female faculty are expected to also be counselors and social workers, and do extra free affective labor to comfort and console students who are having emotional/psychological/personal problems, etc. etc. Minority faculty get bogged down with various types of…

It will require some finessing if you want to preserve the friendship. If your son has his shots you don't have to worry, but you will have to explain to her that this is necessary for your peace of mind.

I feel like 3) has gone the way of the Dodo, unfortunately. Too much special snowflake syndrome. We're in this situation now at my 3yo's: preschool: this kid torments my kind until he snaps and hits or kicks, and then kicks up the theatrics full force with wailing and sobbing. He also has some blood disorder so he…

Yes.

My thoughts exactly. I was left wondering if she was selectively forgetting/ignoring various and sundry red flags and lesser infractions that gradually built up to this blowout. Which is not to say that any of it is her fault.

You clearly have a lot of animosity towards socialism/anti-capitalist sentiment, but that doesn't negate the fact that yes, contemporary capitalism and racism are intertwined.

No worries. I blame the trolls.

That's fair, and makes much more sense to me. I probably should have framed my initial post as a question. Apologies!

This is a really good point. Of course these clothes were picked out by a stylist or assistant or something who thought that they symbolized "Thanksgiving middle America family blah blah." Whether they made a misjudgment is another story that in no way justifies the criticism levied upon the girls.