Now they have to pander even more effectively to his base. And no matter how fucking ignorant and dangerous her rhetoric was, their viewers will never see her as anything than a Black Lady.

Good. Fuck Stacy Dash.

Nope. Sometimes it’s necessary. Sometimes it’s required. I grew up in the punk scene. Even in the lefty haven that is Seattle we dealt with nazis at shows on a fairly regular basis. I think every punk scene did and probably still does have to put these bacteria in their place from time to time. The older punks here…

To use an extreme example: If your daughter is about to get raped, would you beat the shit out of her attacker to protect her? Yes? Then punching is not always wrong.

Yeah a lot of Nazis were won over by hugs in 1930s Germany.

MLK still got assassinated.

He believes in ‘peaceful ethnic cleansing’.

Just ask Boaty McBoatface.

No, no, a thousand times no. Anyone who thinks it’s possible to change the beliefs of a long-term committed neo-Nazi white supremacist like Richard Spencer is completely delusional. He isn’t a child. And you can’t reason with Nazis. Plus, for those who worry that this was a bad idea, plays into his hands, etc., I…

MLK’s use of non-violence was a specific tactic to highlight how there would be a response of violence to black people asserting their basic humanity by doing things as simple as using a water fountain. Trotting non-violence out as an end rather than a specific mean so you can make a point is irresponsible and…

MLK was shot, no?

Richard Spencer is a 38 year-old college educated man who believes in ethnic cleansing. A punch isn’t gonna change his mind, but arguing wont either.

Right now he’s hiding in his basement, afraid to come out, I’m good with that. Even better if he hid in an attic for a while.

Perhaps you’ve never been called a nigger and told you were gonna get hung from a tree. When you were 10, and in Southern California, in the early 90s. So yes, punching a white Hate terrorist in the face is the right thing to do.

He was already saying the left is as violent as we accuse the alt-right of being. The only thing that changed is that he’s scared now.

I’ve loved her since Heavenly Creatures. So typical of Hollywood that when she began pursuing an acting career after that it took her a while to get her breaks, as she was (a) slightly chubby and (b) everyone assumed that Peter Jackson did that thing where you need to cast a very young actor to play an intense…

I adored her as the only grounded, sensible character (George Clooney’s sister) in Up in the Air. How neurotic he was was only fully understandable once you got her very nuanced performance as quintessentially sane and practical.

Melanie Lynskey will always be an A+ actor to me and deserving of every award no matter what she acts in because she was a revelation in Heavenly Creatures.