Stick to writing about tweets and racism.

Why do I feel like you’d love Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool if he were a PoC?

You forget...people aren’t going to this film to see Ryan Reynolds. They’re going because GODDAMN DEADPOOL MOVIE. And they’re hoping it makes up for how Deadpool was mishandled in the 2009 Wolverine flick.

How about because the movie looks like it might be fun?

This is horrible, as is the continued circumcision of boys. Both should be stopped so that everyone can grow up as nature intended. And I mean this sincerely. Stop chopping bits off of baby’s bits. It’s gross and unnecessary, no matter the gender.

But it’s his song that’s about him acknowledging how his privilege has brought him to these levels of success. Who else is he supposed to talk about?

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122

Thank you for this. It is not the job of those without privilege to educate us, but for those of us who sincerely want to make things right, we are helpless. It is our very existence which causes everything we do - as allies or enemies - to be wrong and I don’t know how to correct that.

Have you noticed that everyone who says “woke” is an asshole?

...they want him to be accepted and loved and considered woke by everyone around him so they feel like they can be too.

“There is a pervasive desire amongst certain liberal whites to be “the only one.””

Yeah I think part of the problem is...who else with such an audience is even talking about it? Yet because yeah Macklemore isn’t great and tries too hard so he gets ripped down for it. It just feels a little bit like you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t, and again this is NOTHING compared to the struggles…

An alternative viewpoint might be that these stories happen to make for really compelling cinema and that our culture at large frequently returns to the darkest, most perilous points in our history, because of the built in emotional weight and recognition that yes, this is what humanity is capable of and (in many of…

As a white male liberal, I usually evade topics like race or gender issues because it appears to be easily inflammatory.

Why do so many people rag on Macklemore? I’ve only listened to “Thrift Shop” and “Same Love,” both of which I thought were mediocre (OK, “Thrift Shop” was catchy for a few days). But he nevertheless comes off as someone who genuinely loves what he does, and wants to be socially productive. Constructive criticism is…

See, I read this comment, and it’s really Exhibit A why if you’re privileged you just shouldn’t ever say anything on these topics.

Look, lots of us know the problem is every music act can’t be a fully-junked transgender Healthy At Any Size lesbian of color with their own line of Youtube makeup tutorials and plus-size dresses for a buck, so we don’t say anything and just go about our business. The “pleading eyes” thing is your frenzied…

It feels hypocritical to denounce your white privilege while releasing a song and enjoying a career facilitated by that exact privilege.

This is a dumb questions, and irrelevant since well I can’t think of any white liberal being afraid of that individual. There are two types of white liberals the ones that will be stumbling over themselves to be the best white liberal ally they can spending so much time deconstructing their own privilege and pandering…