Karsenty is not a french official.
He is assistant to the mayor of a small paris suburb city that’s filled with old money white racists.
I never heard of him before today and I lived in that hellhole for a year.

Lol you don’t speak for us

So then just wear the fucking outfit. You don’t need to paint your face black to “pay tribute” to a character—people will get who you’re cosplaying as.

Context “is” important because there’s a reason why White people shouldn’t put on black face, just like there’s a reason why white people shouldnt’ say the n-word.…

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

There is an abundance of evidence for us to say this was staged, but I get your approach:  why let the facts get in the way of your opinion. 

Just...just wear the clothes. We know who it is, the costume’s good and fine on its own, there’s no need to Blackface it up. Jesus, why is this so hard?

Nothing, city attorneys are paid to handle these cases.

In-house City of Chicago attorney’s would prosecute the civil claim. They are salaried employees of the City, so no billable hour attorney fee would be involved here. They are paid the same whether they prosecute 1 case or 100 cases in a given year. The litigation expenses associated with prosecuting a case like this…

unless they win and the defendant also has to pay court costs for the prevailing party

Dany dies in childbirth.

You’re thinking of the wrong Williamsburg - while it’s all one neighborhood, there are 2 sides to Williamsburg. This is coming from the cultlike ultra-Orthodox community, not the hipsters.

Everyone needs to understand that Progressive is not liberal, and liberal is not progressive. These are disparate factions in the democratic party and cannot co-exist in the long term. Embracing AOC-style twitter activist socialism is literally choosing to push away 47 percent of your party to court the 8 percent…

Actually, if you look at the most recent analyses, the democratic base is majority moderate. It was moderates who won the swing districts and red districts that gave us the “blue wave”. The Justice Dem candidates and Bernie endorsements lost more often than they won. Pelosi is anticipating Trump and GOP strategy of…

Capitalism isn’t broken, the system is just being abused by people whose greed has overtaken their humanity. late stage capitalism is never good, and it should be reigned in/dialed back. but to say socialism is a solution is moronic at best. Democrats have resorted to their own radical policies in reactionary response…

Good Morning, you are wrong. It’s because we want to win, something you all have never done. We have. We did recently in the midterms. And we will again in 2020.

She’s talking about progressive members of the House. And she’s not wrong. Most Democrats nationally are not that progressive and it’s reflected in who we elect. 

He also was against the release of the Panama Papers and criticized their release as “Putin bashing”

Exactly. The fuck I can’t support freedom of the press without supporting Assange.

Did Saudi Arabia and Israel take stolen materials and pass them to intermediaries to the Trump Campaign? No? Ok, then.

I’d normally be inclined to agree. In 2016 he released the DNC emails. Then claimed to have the RNC emails but decided not to release them because he said there was nothing good in there.