I clicked on this headline ready to agree it was irresponsible, assuming we were talking about toddlers. At 7 and 8? That’s bullshit.

You are not a black person. You are a racist’s stereotype of a black person.

FYI, not sure about Mr. Mayo here, but Queen is a troll.

I worked with a (white) dude who stole cars habitually as a teenager. He stopped before he turned 18. Juvenile records sealed so he got a clean slate, earned a college degree, had a nice white-collar job, and the only reason I knew about his record is because his wife told me.

There’s some truth to this, but it’s primarily an artifact of geographic & socioeconomic factors. I would bet that the average American Muslim is more socially progressive than the average Christian in the Middle East. The primary difference here is what country they live in, not what religion they follow, and…

Just saw you in another thread using the phrase “virtue signalling.” Gosh, that’s ... unsurprising.

If I may stereotype my own people for a moment - she is Jewish and he is a Nazi. She will be able to find a crack legal team to handle this pro bono.

I assume you know this but just in case anyone doesn’t - doing (((this))) to someone’s name is a “cute” white supremacist way of labeling them as a Jew.

I think you might be right if the option were “Southern heritage groups” or maybe even “white nationalists,” but if you can convince them it’s really Nazis, the vast majority aren’t going to pick the side that Grandpa fought a war against.

A for trolling effort, but still trolling.

Oh, I think the right knows exactly what they’re doing - at higher levels, anyway. The Republican Party & the right-wing media have deliberately blurred those lines for many years. They love making white people feel like the real victims (see also: the “war” on Christmas).

Good point, and one I’ll try to keep in mind.

Ran into this checking her comment history. 100% sure this is a troll.

Had to check your comment history to verify, but yeah, you’re 100% trolling.

Here’s the thing though - it’s the right wing that has made “racist” such a charged word, by treating it as a horrifying accusation rather than a very, very common problem. On the left, the idea that almost everyone has some unconscious bias is not even slightly shocking. Remember how right-wingers freaked out because…

I think there’s some value in distinguishing the alt-right from neo-Nazis from the KKK and so on ... as long as we remember that these are all simply variations of white supremacist human garbage. It’s useful mostly because some of these groups hate each other and their internal divisions can be an exploitable…

Nope. Republicans have been parroting that line for decades. It’s never been true. It is true that the national Republican Party has very deliberately and cynically courted the votes of white supremacists ever since Nixon, so they’ve brought the association on themselves, but certainly there are some principled…

This line of argument is familiar - I’ve been hearing “calling people Nazis turns them into Nazis!” from the Gamergate/alt-right crowd for a while now.

Apparently I didn’t know much about Ohio! (I’ve never been there, so I have an excuse at least.)

Wonder if Sherrod Brown’s name ever helped clue him in to racism. I remember reading of a white guy named Washington who said he’d always been aware of racial prejudice because it was so noticeable how often he’d get rejected with paper applications (rent, jobs etc) but then get a very different response when he…