I think the idea is that if Caster Semenya was Catherine Simons, she’d have been receiving the star treatment early enough that this sort of discrimination wouldn’t fly.

I have never seen “protect women” used in a way that doesn’t defend bigotry of some kind. I resent being used as a weapon against POC, especially against WOC.

I mean, the people at the top of any sport have bodies that are going to perform better than the “average” person.  If you start calling every facet of their biology an advantage, who’s left?  

The awfulness of the current design will not be dissipated until the design gets replaced, and probably not even then. That’s just how massive and obvious a design failure it is.

Black people are allowed to be “meh” about a candidate and not support them all the way to not voting for them if they don’t want to. Black people don’t have to save white people from themselves:

No one can be sure if the voter turnout is due to the fact that Obama raised the enthusiasm of black voters during his campaign

Compromise is over-rated as a political tool. Never mind the problem that the compromise position between being 0% racist and 100% racist is being 50% racist, you can’t actually accomplish anything in this country by getting Democrats to compromise with blue dog Democrats and Republicans.

The last great compromises…

I’m pretty sure that if Ilhan Omar called a Jewish person “a kind, and generous human,” there would be some conservatives who would find a way to make that into an anti-Semitic slur. The conservative response to Omar and AOC is fascinating and also ridiculous.

Bruh, that whole “hold hands and meet in the middle with people who don’t see us as human beings” thing is exactly how we ended up with president dipshit.

Don’t forget to add “bring in Agile Coach and a Project Manager consultant” to that “org shuffle and giftcards!” comment :-)

I don’t think it’s acquiescing at all: white nationalism falls under both racist and white supremacist ideology. It’s a specific set of beliefs and core issues (another example: Neo Confederates, who are also racists and white supremacists, also has a specific set of core issues).

So he doesn’t go to an anti-gay church, he just goes to a “hate the sin, love the sinner” type church when it comes to the gays? They don’t hate gays, they accept them and forgive them?

How dare Senator Warren prove her family’s story true!

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I am going to put this out there the average white american has about 1% of native DNA, statistically the exact same amount Warren is claiming. However those American’s do not call themselves Natives in professional settings as Warren did (source and source) or at the very least did not correct when others made the…

He’s never going to pay, but everyone with a functioning brain cell already knew that, regardless of the outcome of the test.

I read it as “these are the rules which suck and should be changed to improve society overall”

“People always try to be perfect. That’s why they don’t start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you’re trying to be perfect, you know you can’t be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.” Tony Robbins.

First of all, HELL YES to stripper and sex worker rights.

Oh, I think I saw at least one black woman there.