I’m a Batuman fangirl and must get hold of this novel for this summer’s beach reading. :) I’ve already read an excerpt, and Selin makes me want to simultaneously shake her & hug her, which is how I know I’m reading a really-real heroine.

But where was he radicalized?!

“The conditions in which migrants are currently living in some European countries may well be difficult, and deserve still greater international attention, but concentration camps they certainly are not,” AJC CEO David Harris declared.

Why did you do this to me?

They have probably been using advertising like this in Asia and the Middle East for decades. All the companies do and have always done because it is very effective. Their mistake (from a business perspective) was to allow it to become viral in the West.

I live in Atlanta and John Lewis is a legend around here. Not just in the 5th district but easily in the 6th too. It sounds lame but even old white people love him and the 6th district is a pretty well-educated group of voters.

John Lewis is a freaking hero and national treasure! He did amazing things in the 1960s to help African Americans register to vote. I hope that his influence will help increase voter registration and turn out among African American votes in Georgia, as well as anyone else who respects him.

I have an Indian friend named Anita. I also know some Korean-Americans named Christine, Kimberly, and Larry. What would make their names more “appropriate?”

There are almost two dozen countries in what is considered the Arab world and the treatment and clothing styles of women in each is very different. They aren’t all wearing burkas and niqabs. Young women in Lebanon, for example, dress just like Americans — tank tops and jeans (ie. bare arms).

“You like your culture when it suits you lmaooo.”

To ISIL, anyone not following/submitting to their particular belief is a heretic. It’s not just a genocide against Christians, it’s a genocide of anyone who ISIL/Daesh doesn’t like. The U.S. government has conluded that the vast majority of people killed by ISIL are Muslim:

How do you figure? Muslims are overwhelmingly the victims of attacks by ISIS. Prioritizing by religion is disgusting when terrorism doesn’t discriminate.

oh, but we didnt demoralize him, sean - he came to us, quite honestly, without any morals at all.

Holllllly Moly how much peroxide is in that picture

Yeah, as frustrating as these people are, they’re really sad, too. The real monsters are the people knowingly posting fake news online, knowing stupid people will believe it. Maddison definitely needs some consequences for his storm-the-pizza-place-with-an-assault-rifle tactics, but he’s also obviously incredibly…

It is terrible. It is allllll terrible. Wtf is this watered down bullshit family fare fucking John Waters shit. Give me Divine or give me death. IT IS ALL Terrible.I forgive John for allowing this travesty but I do no forgive the audience. Go watch the original now people. Except no substitutes.

I have coasted through life thus far on my race, gender, relative wit and am in a far cushier spot than I should be given my almost complete lack of effort.

@cait98: I agree that it isn't rape, but "consent" is a tricky concept when it comes to childbirth. Oftentimes, things are presented to you not as options, but as imperatives. You CAN say no, but believe me, it is very very hard to do so in the moment, when you're scared, in pain, and feeling cornered.