True. Good point. But the way it’s expressed and used (or ignored) in the media is different

I don’t. But a non American is going to use a different vocabulary to talk about it the way we do. You used the word ‘white washing’ to describe me before. Somebody outside our culture is going to have a different way to describe that or just not notice it the way we might at all. I know it’s annoying needing to…

Yeah, well, goes both ways. I know you get sick of the need to explain shit (we’ve starred each other’s comments before), but sorry. Don’t agree with you here. Reserve the right, and claim the space to.

Dumb. She isn’t American. I’m sick of people screaming racist for someone who both had no hand in rewriting (or casting) the character, nor someone who experienced racism as we might

Dumb. Taking shit out of context STILL does not make Swinton racist in this case.

Can I just say that it strikes me as tone deaf that The United States expects everyone to understand our racial hang ups through the prism of our experience. I work in translation and barely a day (well sometimes a week) that I don’t have to explain my American experience with race and difference and never - NEVER -…

Agree... mostly.... but I don’t think people are as sexist racist as you think. Propagandized against? For certain. Did trump utilize the racist fringe in this country for votes in the same way that previous generations of Republicans utilized evangelicals? You bet.

It’s true that 20% of eligible voters chose Trump, but you don’t know how many had been sidelined but the incredible amount of propaganda painting Clinton as the antichrist. Between the Russian email hacks, the false news stories and the FBI, she had the cards stacked against her. Also, eligible voters excludes people…

Jesus was a SOCIALIST!!!!

Thanks for that. I live in NYC and work in translation. I’ve spent years of my life being an immigrant, needing to make my way around foreign laws in a language I didn’t grow up with. Most of my friends are immigrants, queer, or both. Heck, I’m not even Christian... so believe me when I say I live in a bubble. I’ve…

No. that’s one thing I refuse to do. Not out of anger or dominance but because there’s very little we get to know about how other people think and feel. If we all “shut the fuck up”, we’d never know. There’d be no shared experience, no understanding of one another- no growth. You want to use ‘white’ as a personality…

Our country is fucked.

Ditto

Kind of, not really. Come from a family of mixed races and religions in NYC. Again, you don’t need to get angry with me. I was just sharing an observation. I have no stake in proving you right or wrong, just sharing

Not hyperbolic at all. Just telling you how it sounds to me. I am just one perspective and an imperfect perspective as it is. You can take what I’ve said and believe me, or not. That’s fine. I am only one voice.

Ok, just telling you how it sounds. Replace ‘white’ with Asian or black, and you see how it sounds. ‘Awkward’ is a personality type. ‘White’ is not.

I don’t think he plays “awkward white dude” to make Bruno Mars feel more comfortable in s racial sense. I think Corden often plays the fool with his guests. I don’t believe for a second that boy doesn’t have rhythm, he’s just trying to draw his guests out. Saw him do the same thing with Brittany. Not everything is a…

Is it just me or does Meghan markle looo extrodinarily like Troian Bellasario?

Their opinion- its an important distinction with in our new highly polarized fact-free universe.

I’m not trying to convince those with moneyed interests - of course all you need to do is to get a UofArizona climate grad to write a paper that you publish in your “scientific” trade journal. I just don’t think regular folk are aware how out of the loop these “climate deniers” are. I think that if they knew that…