I mean, flying Spirit will make anyone want to blow up the plane. But the harassment of the flight attendant was total uncalled for.

Eh, unfortunately plenty of POCs are bigoted towards other minority groups.

Yeah, almost certainly this. She’s probably not subtle about her own lack of respect for black women, resulting in them not respecting her back. Poor leadership.

I’m surprised that it’s not either being squatted in, or been destroyed by people cutting pieces off to sell to the scrapyard.

I think that ethno-nationalist types have never been able to let go of that idea that your identity and nationality come from your bloodline - that is, their idea that you have to be white to “really” be American.

Yep, birthright citizenship is a central part of America, and has been since we instituted it by passing the 14th amendment. But white ethno-nationalists are still angry about that, and the GOP has embraced them, so now the GOP is iffy on birthright citizenship. SMH.

In this context, “queer” is being used an umbrella term for LGBT+ folks, including the male same-sex couple discussed in the article and the female same-sex couple mentioned as an aside, but possibly including any number of other families with kids who do not include a male and female partner gestating their own…

I feel like I’ve been to a number of weddings where the groom’s mom walked him down the aisle. That way, I guess, both new spouses are being “given” by their family.

For sure. My male partner, who’s a strong guy who lifts, has a jiujitsu blue belt, & is very outspoken, has been the victim of sexual harassment & unwanted touching. Confidence & physical strength don’t mean you can’t be victimized.

I think what qualifies as “success” will vary somewhat depending on who you ask, like with any large political/social movement.

It may be a regional expression, like my mom’s Pennsylvania Dutch relatives that say “outen the lights”.

Sounds like they were talking about their particular local scene, so it might be true there. Not every place is uniform, and things can ebb and flow. I’m probably not much older than them, but my understanding is that far-right white nationalist type movements in the US generally kind of went to ground after OK City…

Tolerance is a mutual-acceptance pact that Nazis don’t subscribe to, so they shouldn’t be upset if they don’t receive its’ benefits.

The “good punks” I know that I’ve heard about this kind of stuff from have talked about starting with non-violent tactics (tearing down posters for white supremecist events, protesting, harassing known neo-Nazis, etc). But the sense I get is that they went as far as was necessary to drive the neo-Nazis out.

Tolerance requires a certain mutual agreement - that is, we all agree to accept each other, even if we find each other strange. A person who’s openly racist towards others isn’t abiding by their end of the tolerance agreement, and therefore shouldn’t expect others to tolerate them.

Are they worth it? They look good, but they’re like like $5+ at the Korean grocery store I saw them at, so I’ve been skeptical about getting them.

This gives me flashbacks to Hanna Arrendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, about how Nazism came to power. Replace “black” and “American” with “Jew” and “German”, and this same attitude.... that’s where the Nazis (the regular, middle-class office worker Nazis, I mean, the widespread support) came from. That same…

Yep. Prostitution, stealing, manual labor, odd jobs... in those days, poor kids often worked as servants or in factories and coal mines, too.

Yeah, if you grow up with this stuff being normal, it’s probably hard to see warning signs. I know a woman who was molested as a child, and ended up marrying a man who molested their oldest child, and that’s what she told me. (Fortunately, unlike “Mama June”, my aquaintence put her kids first, and took action as soon…

The comment quoted in this article - “The reason I don’t want to is because it’s like reliving another memory,” - made me immediately wonder the same thing.