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It’s when your movement stops being a rational one, based off of pragmatism and self-criticism, and starts becoming a religion, fanaticism based on dogma rather than discourse.

I am currently reading the newest piece and all I can say is that it is amazing how effective the proper deployment of logic can be! To wit:

Do these children know how long it takes real, tangible civil rights violations to be resolved? Do these children know that what they are doing will add fuel to the fire of right-wing Title IX haters? Do these children understand that right this very second there are women, rape victims cast out from their schools,

After reading this post I read Kipnis’ essay, and came here prepared to be unpopular in my opinion of support. Thankfully, after reading through the comments I breathe a sigh of relief that the world isn’t as dire as I had feared. The problem with the lawsuit and protest goes beyond feminism, it speaks to the level of

College activists are the biggest problem in most ‘liberal’ movements. They tend to be self righteous, knee jerk folks who, while certainly meaning well, act with such fanaticism that they play right into the hands of those who oppose the goals of the left. And worst of all they turn on their own in a heart beat

This reminds me of my first experience with my fellow college student feminists. The university’s feminist center was staging a production of the Vagina Monologues (as-ya-do) and a smaller subset of feminists protested the production over a perceived bias against women of color and LGBTQA in casting the show. The

It is a stunning example of feminism devouring itself.

There’s literally no way that’s true but God bless you anyway

If you can supply evidence of such bribes in the comments here, then I suspect you'd get out of the greys. Or just link to the story you've written about those bribes on your own blog. Either way, we're all ears!!

Just in case no one does, I'll share the adorable feeding time picture my dad sent me today

HM wears a LOT of solid, bright colors because she knows that people come from all over just to see her & very often won't be able to pick her out of the throng, otherwise.

This gun-toting idiot I went to high school with posted this dumbass rant a while ago about Michelle Obama lacking class for wearing a sleeveless dress. Gonna go send this to her racist ass.

Gonna start with what Ava DuVernay tweeted last night:
"An episode like this isn't easy. Isn't easy to write. Isn't easy to direct. Isn't easy to get on air. I appreciate the effort."

The trap of respectability politics. My guess is she did so to make the episode more digestible for white audiences who, lets be completely honest, would have sympathized with the cop if the black character did have a knife on him.

Dan: You're a loyal sidekick, but I don't know why you wanna make me run through what you already know, but ok, this "research" you speak of is not your friend: The Yellowhorse website says, "Yellowhorse is a certified 100-percent-Native American owned and operated business," right? OK, now here's a link about the

I love the argument that a mascot isn't a big deal and people shouldn't be "butthurt" about it then bitch they it might change because local Natives ask politely they change the nickname.

Native American Redskins Fans

I am an alumni of Lancaster High School. I graduated in 2005 and played football and track. I was a Redskin...and I could not give a FUCK if the school changes its mascot. The only argument the ignorant and small-minded locals have is that the name is steeped in tradition. Fuck that shit. As we learn in sociology (and

"First American International LLC"