Yes, and because I’m much smarter than you, I actually know how many people speak it.

. . . so you heard that and you believed it, huh?

I understand it fine, but it doesn’t change the fact that neither one of those sentiments is compatible with being “all for freedom of religion”.

Irrelevant. It doesn’t change the fact that the people who are ranting are not in fact “all about freedom of religion”.

Fail.

Sounds like the employees told them to leave, at which point the cops were obligated. That’s how trespassing works.

Not that racism ever makes any sense, but these two guys are about as far from scary as it gets.

I think it’s overly optimistic to think those things won’t be connected. Social chaos tends to increase the tendency to be brutally traditionalist. Trump’s plans for the economy and climate will just create that chaos. People are gonna suffer a lot.

I’m heartened that the reaction was strong enough to lead to a serious step back from the media there.

Sounds like they need to GIT DEM TITTAYS OUT during the swimsuit round then.

Yeah this is the value of actually knowing something about what you’re critiquing. For sure hijab is inextricably bound up in awful patriarchal garbage, but then so are high heels, and I’m guessing all the woman on that stage were in heels.

Sure, but it’s nice to see someone taking advantage of the pageant to actually spread a positive message. I like the idea of subverting something like this.

I’m all for freedom of religion. Believe what you want. But I’m not going to celebrate a representative of a belief system that tells women that their bodies are intrinsically immodest.

Yeah but better to have people subverting them like this than not, right?

So, do liberals other than me not understand how snarking on shit like this makes us look? Or do they just not care?

Do you think people would notice if I went from thirty-something to twenty-nine?

It’s good that your cousin sticks to a code.

The media don’t have the power to make every citizen wise.

Well, what I mean is goddamn.

Good point.