I guess for parties I can see that, but for a lot of issues I don't get how it could be otherwise. Like it's hard to imagine a black person participating in civil rights marches being okay with Jim-Crow supporting friends. Or a gay person being friends with someone who thinks that should be grounds for criminal…

Is it worth asking why someone like Norquist is a fan of hers? I don't know I look at that as a good thing exactly.

Well color me surprised. If we can't convince certain otherwise reasonable Jezebel commenters of such a thing, then I'm not sure how Bill O'Reilly's light bulb will be going on any time soon.

Colorblind people remind me of this quote: "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing". These people don't really want to work to dismantle systemic racism. They just don't want to be accused of being racist, which is more important to a lot of white people than actually solving…

Color blind is a condition in which people refuse to see you when your color is anything but white, so it doesn't surprise me that it is not the racial harmony that gaslighters want us to think it is. The supposedly colorblind always manage to be the biggest fucking racists. And the New Black community are going to be…

What I'm saying is that as far as I'm concerned all of that *is* part of me. I'm a black person. I'm a Caribbean person. I'm a woman. All of those are part of who I am, of my identity. If someone is really seeing ME, seeing who I am, then those are the things they're seeing. If they don't see those things, then…

As far as I'm concerned, we're not supposed to be blind to race. When people see me, I want them to see my race, my culture, my history, my identity (all of which I love profoundly). What I don't want is for people to treat me unequally because of my race. That's quite a different thing.

Martha isn't being defensive. and your comment reads to me like you may have missed her point: its not about being "post"-racial, which would mean that race is no longer a thing. it is a thing; it is a great, celebrated thing for many people. it's about being accepting and respectful of all races and limiting…

How calculated, but he's still spewing his new black shit here. Build a school WHERE? Teach a child WHAT? These answers are extremely vague. I think once he became conscious of the fact that he has more white fans then he's ever had ever since he came out with Happy, he's made the decision to spew the colorblind…

No one does. That's why we have "suspension from school" versus "expulsion". Suspension is for when you done f-d up, but they're still sorting out the details. Like a criminal trial!

She said "no," and he admitted she said "no," but...he decided it was reasonable to interpret a direct, unequivocal "no" as pleasure? How is that not a straight-up confession? Let's guess how the rape apologists will do those mental acrobatics: "I mean, she didn't say 'Stop putting your penis inside me right now,…

*Sigh*

Wait there was a case a few years ago in Mass. where a high school athlete (female) was suspended from the team because she drove her drunk friend home. The athlete was sober but with a drunk classmate. Yet in Washington they allow rapists to play.

Unless they had discussed things beforehand, only a man who has never pleased a woman would think that her screaming "no" is a sign of pleasure.

As if he even gave half a crap why she was saying no.

Why do some people refuse to read the article that would explain this point nicely?

Basically it's disrespectful attitudes towards women, having a short temper, speaking over people, and not respecting personal boundaries.

But wait! I read that asking people to get active consent is going to ruin sex 5ever (that's one more than 4ever).

A completely serious question: what is the fascination about highschool football and football players in the USA that they are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want without the fear of any consequences?
Especially since most of them propably won't ever have anything to do with football in their future (at lastest…

According to court documents, Smith admitted one of the women was saying "no," but the detective said Smith told him he "thought she was saying no for pleasure and not to stop having sex."