Reading the book, I interpreted Offred’s definition of rape (and not-rape) more as a reflection of the culture she’s living in. Like... she doesn’t get to call what happens to her rape because it’s state-sponsored. It’s like her saying she used to have another name, but not telling the reader what it is (major…

Seems like they don’t understand that treating him like he’s innocent until proven guilty doesn’t include treating him like he’s the same beloved public figure he once was. My conscience won’t allow me to divorce the artist from the acts, nor support his career while the allegations hang over him. Even if he’s proven…

Her life’s not a lie. Her belief in a parent being a good person is ruined, yes. But she had good times with the man, apparently and is an adult now. Her memories are real and if that doesn’t line up with how her father treated others, that’s got to hurt. But it doesn’t mean her life is a lie.

Because there is ample evidence that Camille consciously chose to ignore what was happening, and at least some indicators that she actually enabled it.

He did that shit. For. Sure.

Agreed. What do you expect from his family? There’s a reason they don’t allow jury members to have personal connections to the defendant. You can’t judge a family member objectively in a case like this.

This makes me sad. Denial is a hell of a drug. It really is an amazing thing. I was a drug addict and lost my car and was evicted and finally came clean to my parents, no pun intended. When I told them I was an addict they would *not* believe me. We fought for days. They just couldn’t handle the news.

Yeah, at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter how much closure the victim gets.

Guess Clarke wants to be Judge Dredd since he feels it’s ok to sentence his inmates to death for their crimes before the judge can get to them. Immoral asshats like this should not have this much power over people.

The optics seem like such a stark flip if they really are mostly concerned with expanding rather than usurping their core consumers. I imagine Cadillac didn’t just go all in on marketing to black consumers one day. Whether it’s the intent or not, it can conjure an air of overcompensating in order to get white buy-in.

Are they adding new lines are actually changing their formula for existing products?

“We visit Dolezal’s studio. She is, in all honesty, a very talented painter. The majority of her paintings feature black people. Other than the paintings of her children, most of the black people depicted appear to be dressed as slaves or tribespeople.”

I think this paragraph from the article explains the problem with Rachel Dolezal considering herself “transracial” well:

I’ve had the same problem with the Dolezal story — why is everyone so angry and mocking of a woman who seemed to be reacting to (a) her white parent’s ill treatment of her black adopted siblings, and (b) an art teacher who told her that her art about the black experience was inappropriate because Dolezal herself was…

My mom always told me, “beware a convert.” They’re always incredibly fanatical because they believe they’ve rationally chosen the thing that you’ve always just had or believed. Except in this case, the thing she thinks she knows more about is OTHER PEOPLE’S ACTUAL LIVED IDENTITIES!!!! It’s so gallingly bonkers I don’t…

This right here. Like so many Cool Girls (TM) before her, Tomi just found out that none of those men ever actually respected her, valued her opinions, or saw her as anything besides this year’s Hot Conservative Ice Queen. She wasn’t a real pundit, just a convenient archetype.

Just like Megyn Kelly, she gets no sympathy from me. All of the bottle blondes need to realize they are just the fancy window dressing meant to rely the message to the base. They aren’t expected to have their own opinions or deviate from the party line. God forbid they want to be treated equally. Once they get out of…

Weird, I thought being rude and ignorant was a selling point for a conservative media personality.

It also disenfranchises the vote of brown people. Many innocent people take plea deals because they dont trust state justice to save them. Thus taking away one more voter.

“Proactive policing” sounds a helluva lot like “police will have the right to harass you to find something wrong so they can get their arrest numbers up and Sessions can claim to have ‘fixed’ crime and get that sweet police union money”.