You didn’t mention the thing where people try to prove themselves “better feminists than the bad feminists” by writing really long articles about how a few people are doing it wrong and this must generalise to the whole of feminism.

The vast majority of those calling for criminal negligence charges won’t be specific about who it is that should be charged. This is what happens when people think to much using abstractions like social constructs. These abstractions work great for modeling complex phenomenon such as institutional racism, but when it…

Fuck all these fucking people. This didn't happen in a vacuum, and I hope the Bland family sues that municipality into the Stone Age.

> (By the end of that message board thread, Lipschultz had been banned from NeoGAF.)

Rarely. Most revolvers do in fact require you to pull back on the hammer each time you want to fire. Some are semi-auto, but that isn’t the norm.

Bit of silly nitpicking, but you shouldn’t use “weapon” and “rifle” interchangeably in the story. The officers are undoubtedly already armed with semi-automatic weapons (handguns); I doubt they are carrying revolvers.

I’m not sure if I agree with you about private schools not receiving public funds. That establishes a dangerous precedence, as many private non-profits receive federal funds (public libraries, museums, and—for at least the time being—Planned Parenthood). Granted, those institutions don’t discriminate based on sexual…

There have actually been a bunch of legal decisions in favor of trans people based on sex non-discrimination.

The narrative is that colleges don’t take rape seriously, and that the victims aren’t adequately protected by school administration. If Rolling Stone and the producers of Hunting Ground can’t find any cases where that truly happens, maybe the narrative is wrong.

I thought the Hunting Ground was sensationalistic and more intent on pushing an agenda than reporting facts. I felt that way before reading Yoffe’s article too.

people also tend to ascribe their own failures to other people, and other people’s successes to circumstances.

Yes! I grew up poor and worked really hard to get my degree and although I have never been a social conservative (quite the opposite) I did feel like I was exceptional and that my hard work got me from rural Mexico to a solid middle class life in the U.S. Then I started mentoring a young Chicana and saw that she’s not…

...And this is the part where I propose the 100% federal estate tax.

I have stated this before, but I feel it bears repeating.

As I understood it, the baby was a result of a donor egg as well, so he is not biologically hers. Still a dick move though.

*TeamKid

I do care about injustice, I’m just informing you how this is being consumed and how its being used to shape the narrative to the detriment of civil rights.

Did anyone actually read the Yale professors response to the halloween costume letter?