#NotAllWhiteWomen. Basic Bitches, maybe.

I’m black, and I remember my Latina bestie resisting my attempts to convince her to watch it. It was a show about white lady problems, she said, but when she finally came around to it, the depiction of female friendships and the frank conversations about sexuality ultimately resonated enough to make her an…

Yeah, when I watched it I only found gaping holes in the stories, like “you’re celebrating a milestone birthday/getting married/battling cancer/having a baby but you have NO family to participate?!” My favourite take away from this show is when Carrie was facing eviction from her apartment and declared that she had…

Not excusing the lack of diversity at all, but this show happened right after friends and Seinfeld, that also showed NYC as lily white.

I loved Bourdain for a lot of reasons, but this might be the top of the list. The biggest deal about it, to me, was that he changed over the past 20 years, too. Kitchen Confidential was written by a guy who respected women who managed to survive in a restaurant kitchen, but wasn’t all that interested in asking why…

Oh man, so sorry to hear that. I don’t recommend reading this thread if you don’t want to do any more crying, but I think it’s worth it:

My brother and sister in-law committed suicide with 18 month of each other and I haven’t been able to keep my self together since I heard of Tony’s death this morning.

I appreciated how Bourdain evolved from the cheeky American asshole in Cook’s Tour to the more respectful “I want to be everyone’s friend” in No Reservations to the “food is just how I talk about the bigger stuff” guy in Parts Unknown. He cut down on the wisecracking (somewhat) and turned into someone who was…

My takeaway from his work is “Always be curious, and try new shit out.” RIP.

And this is why I am conflicted about this case. I’ve read elsewhere that he was considered a fair judge in regards to minority defendants. And we know that when people talk about being hard on crime, POC are the ones that pay the highest price. Having said that, he made a terrible mistake with this case and I’m…

Sorry, judges coming down hard on minorities to win elections is already the norm. You’re confusing the process with the people. Your argument is that because bad people can abuse the process, we shouldn’t have the process.

The voters of the community used the legally proscribed method for democratically removing a judge they didn’t like. Whether I like or dislike the various results of those actions, the process itself is no more an abuse of the system than is voting judges in.

That does not follow logically, like at all.

No, saying they are part of the system is saying exactly just that, that they are part of the system and that their use isn’t automatically an abuse of the system.

Very true. What’s the argument? That voting them in is ok but voting them out is not? Ridiculous.

And if judges are already elected officials, they were already subject to public feedback on their rulings.

Also, judicial independence is kind of a farce to begin with in a system of elected judges...and I say that as a lawyer.

The idea that the recall will undermine judicial independence completely disregards the fact that recalls are part of the judicial system. Anyone making that argument is trying to bullshit you.

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