I attempted Metropolitan somewhat recently and couldn’t believe I ever loved that movie as much as I did! Still holds fond memories for me though.

Given how long each section here is I think maybe some need to be their own articles. Just saying. Like maybe just compile the short takes and then the rest are their own articles.

Here’s my favorite Irish blessing:

Steve King has been in the House since 2003. That’s 14 years of this racist fuck representing Iowa. It seems that Iowans are pretty fucking tolerant of racists.

How much would you bet that he has no idea that Nigerians write?

Tanks, Obama.

From a biological standpoint, I think our guts are actually better equipped to handle bacteria than a pile of cookies. We’ve been eating food with questionable sanitation for millennia, but we only have a century or two of eating highly processed simple carbohydrates. That stuff is basically just sludge once you’ve…

Nope. Grew up Irish Catholic. There’s no way that is an Irish anything. We don’t forget the things that make us sad. We stew over that shit until our birthday and end up in a fistfight in the yard with Dad.

If yer daddy was a member of a Nazi-affiliated group and yer affiliated with an antisemitic political party and ya wear that Nazi group’s medal on television and sign yer name in tribute to a Nazi group and that Nazi group sez yer a member and when yer asked whether yer a member of a Nazi group ya just say “No…

That’s amazing.

I agree with Zabella that the show does not push religion. The characters are way too hypocritical to take their devotion seriously in any way. lol

I’m a white dude who grew up in the middle of the country and have since moved around a bit, so I am used to all sorts of stupid opinions... but at the end of the day, all I want is for people to be reasonable, sensible, practical, and generally kind to each other. Unfortunately Gaming, the Internet, and other 140…

IMHO Greenleaf doesn’t push Christianity, rather the church is the setting for the series. Not everything happens in the church but almost everyone in the family is involved with the church, and so it frequently makes appearances. I’m neither black nor Christian, yet I enjoy this show. It gives me a glimpse into a…

My dad used to joke “I’m gonna beat you ‘til you bleed, then beat you for bleedin’!” And then he’d laugh and laugh, like that wasn’t an absolutely horrifying thing to say, let alone laugh about. He’s a foster parent now.

I don’t talk to him, and haven’t in at least a couple of years. I tried to establish a relationship…

“too dumb to dog whistle” What a perfect description of the man. It should appear next to his photo in the yearbook...

I’m ok with Nazi-punching.

to me trolling is about drawing an emotional response from people whereas bigots like King really want to kick non-white people out. And how they should be engaged is very different

I don’t think you can attribute the godawful comment section from Raquel’s Monday article to trolls. I love reading the Root because as a white trans woman I’ve found myself agreeing so hard with all the black feminist/womanist critiques of White Feminism, but seeing how many “I’m not racist transphobic but...”…

The GIF is some ruinous shit, man.