Fyi, $30 for a single makeup item is unfathomable when you’re relying on Medicaid and food stamps just to get by. Splurging means getting the $12 stuff instead of the $4 stuff, in my world.

I don’t think even 17-year-olds should ever be tried as adults. Not that it isn’t a big fucking deal when they commit a crime like this. It’s just that so often that standard is used to treat 14, 15 year old kids like hardened criminals (especially if they’re black).

This is really making me question my blanket “never try teens as adults” stance. Goddamn.

I try to call it out too, but I know I get dismissed automatically as a “libtard” who’s “brainwashed.” Those people tend to stay in their echo chambers.

.... Yeah, like I said.

Having been raised by white Republicans who had been liberals in the 60s, I think I can explain the thinking pretty well:

I think the “magical Negro” trope is older than King, isn’t it?

I was going to put in a plug for North Dakota here because WE HAVE NO ROACHES HERE (not kidding, my kids have never seen one) but uh, we have most of the other items on the list. Except #3. Definitely do not have that one either.

Friend of mine grew up in the Virgin Islands and was used to being the only white kid in class. She moved to Camden, Maine in January when she was in grade school. Talk about culture shock.

Oh, wow, this is awesome. I knew she was offering a ton of darker skin tones, and I expected that would be the main draw of this line - which is fine! - but I also expected that none of it would be relevant to my “Porcelain 105 looks like a fake tan on me” pasty skin. But no, looks like there is something for me, too:

Legit, but Holocaust denial is still a lot more of a fringe belief than slavery apologism in this country.

In Oklahoma, there were Confederate symbols all over the place when I was in school in the 1980s and 1990s. I’m guessing it’s less of an issue to administrators when there are fewer black students.

Brilliant. An underexplored topic for film, too.

Easy rule of thumb to me: if you wouldn’t put a swastika there, don’t put a Confederate flag there.

Oh, so it’s OK they were jammed together like sardines because once some of them died off they’d have more room?

Yeah .... dude might not see skin color, but the cops sure as hell will.

I love how the only thing they seem to care about is that their cops got called racist. Like, are they claiming it would be OK to treat people the way they treated him, as long as they’re not racially profiling? “Our cops are power-tripping thugs who shove guns in people’s faces after they’re on the ground and…

Looks like this got answered, but you wouldn’t have to be “left” or “right” specifically to have an extreme political goal. Think Basque separatists, IRA, etc.

The only problem I have with this argument is that it lets people think they (or their cop friend/family members) are off the hook if they know that, deep down in their hearts, they’re not bigots. But that’s not a defense. TBH I think it’s actually worse in some ways: you’re not just a moron who was raised to be a…

Right?? “69-year-old man swings golf club at cop” is a cute little story about a cranky grandpa that ends with a kindly police officer patting him on the back and giving him a ride home, if he’s a white guy.