More to the point, why does Jezebel’s white male staffer think that it’s ok to make fun of Rihanna (a Black woman) for not having enough information (whether that’s the details of the case or political savvy) to critique Dolezal?

Well. It should be clear from my second comment that I view telling your spouse about your hypothetical, future affair as mind-fuckery on the level of telling them about an affair they don’t need to know about.

What are you even talking about? You’re talking like (And I know you know better) people who’ve been married for years don’t know whether their partner would like to open up the relationship. Of course they know.

I don’t really see how telling your husband or wife of decades that you had an affair is “fair.” Unless there is a chance that you might have a disease or the affair results in an actual child, how will knowing about it help your spouse? Really? I would like to know about an affair during the first five years of…

That is always silly. But they are so adorable and I want to adopt them all.

“I just replied to someone complaining about how narcissistic and ‘unable to connect with the world around them’ these young women are (you know the ones in a large social group who are clearly having fun with one another).”

By “inability to connect to the world” he just means he’s a misogynistic prick.

No. You’re projecting. You can go to state parks, museums, school functions and see scores of people behaving exactly like these girls. The only reason anyone noticed is because the image gelled with people’s misogynistic assumptions about women. It’s called confirmation bias.

It’s actually not illegal to ask. It’s illegal to make a decision based on the information the question renders:

I don’t know. I’m not going to say that I wouldn’t have done what she did if I were in her shoes because I don’t know that. I think it’s pretty clear at this point that institutions have their own power to determine people’s behavior. People who work within violent institutions do violent things. Look at our police.…

What good could this case do? It could render some really good information about the bureaucracy of the most unique genocide in history. I’m sorry - but the holocaust is unique because of its apparatuses. No one is going to hang this old lady. No one is going to lock her up. This is a purely formal exercise.

“Had she been a Jew in 1942, she would have experienced the Holocaust like every other Jew.” This was not a thing. Converting to Judaism in 1942 in Germany and then dying in the holocaust I mean. Just in case anyone was feeling sorry for those people. Just about no one made that mistake.

Jezebel is trolling itself with this article.

I get the sense you’re one of those people who doesn’t know that in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, when there were a lot more Jews relative to the global population and Judaism was a lot more diverse, there were radical Jews who carried out terrorist attacks. Of course, the vast majority of…

Not half bad.

That’s incredible.

I’m a worse person.

I don’t know what Karyn is going on about. My family is Jewish - though not religious - and I’ve lived with Jews my whole life. I don’t know anyone who is that concerned about “opening wounds that should be left to heal,” that “wants to move toward healing” or that thinks “we must learn to let go of the anger.” It’s…

I was once referred by a doctor to a second doctor named Mengele. Because I am an asshole I said, “That’s unfortunate.” They said, “What?” I said, “Well. It’s just kind of an awkward coincidence. Their last name is Mengele and they became a doctor.” This person, a doctor themselves, had no idea what I was talking…