CALLING KENYA A BRAVO STREGA MADE ME ACTUALLY SPIT-TAKE WITH MY COFFEE THANKS MADELEINE

Just love your kids.

You have a excellent point it's much simpler to knock out the railways rather then bothering hunting down the launch platform

I can just see them pitching the idea....."It's just like a sub launched nuke, or a road mobile nuke - but with the added benefit of a fixed route that it can not deviate from."

Obviously I don't get it. Please tell me why anyone would tweet that instead of linking to an essay?

Ya. I'm old, but so is that GIF. Im right and you know it.

Why the hell would someone publish that as a series of 40 tweets when a link to a coherent essay of the same content would be so much better.

I think it's a fair comment. Enjoying what you earn is one thing. Using what you earn when there is so much that can be done to actually make the world a better place that cost you relatively little is another. Many wealthy people do donate a lot and do a lot, but what needs to be remembers is the comparative with…

There is a sense of excessiveness to it, though.

I'm all for enjoying what you earned. But something I get sickened by the excess of the rich. Just... ugh fuck em.

OK so I'm a good white person. You've pointed out all the things I should not do, but haven't helped me to understand what I SHOULD do. If I show too much interest in a particular "racial" event, I'm now being told that I'm a bad-good white person. If I don't show interest, then I'm a bad-bad white person.

Your assumption here is a problem. You assume that the commenter is looking for a prize. They aren't. They are saying they don't need to apologize for sympathy and empathy which is offered without reward to all walks of life. That the automatic assumption (on your part, it would seem) that they are saying these…

If you think kindness is the limit of what is needed to stop mass death of Black teenagers, you have some work to do.

Would you have said the same thing to the white Mississippi freedom riders? They were good white people, too, and they paid the ultimate price for their decision to stand up for justice. Or the straight folk who mourned the death of Matthew Shepard? Or the men who fight for equal pay for women? Or the able-bodied…

In life, it's generally a good rule of thumb to remember that it's actually RARELY about you.

Right. I don't want a prize, but also, don't basically tell me to shut up. That doesn't do anyone any good.

I thought it was a wonderful piece, but I sincerely doubt that most good white people—or at least the good white people who run in my circles—believe that they "deserve a fucking prize." I think they're expressing empathy.

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

This has given me all the feels. I am struggling not to cut all of the white people out of my life (kind of hard, given I'm married to a white man) and many of those people are "good white people." They are shocked at racism and racist behavior— so much so they I get links to racist posts on websites because they…

Didn't someone once say that he who is wisest is him who admits he knows nothing? I've found, equally paradoxically, that, as a white person, I may contribute less to the system of racism the more I recognize just how racist I truly am.