It’s sophisticated in the way that Airbnb and Uber (compared to Holiday Inn and Yellow Cab) are sophisticated. You set up an international organization and export your ideology with little money, infrastructure, or risk.

Or, you could argue that when ISIS exhorts and persuades lone wolves to carry out mass shootings, it’s the most sophisticated kind of organized terror- the kind that’s virtually impossible to defeat.

Wait- do you mean he didn’t shoot up this nightclub because he was gay???

Some people are likely going to argue that the shooter was gay and driven to kill due to his closeted homosexuality, rather than his religion or political ideology. Others will argue that the issue was the shooter’s maleness, the size of his penis, or his hatred of minorities.

No, it really isn’t. There’s definitely an “American” culture, which you could argue is mostly white. There’s Western culture, a loose European American culture, Appalachian culture, Tidewater culture, Texas culture, Cajun culture, Midwestern culture, upper Midwestern culture, California culture, etc, all of which…

Part of what makes Obama such a good person is his ability to look for, and often find, common ground between people who disagree. This character trait allowed him to convince both conservatives and liberals that he was sympathetic to their points of view when he headed the Harvard Law Review. It also led to his…

Well, European ethnic culture shouldn’t be attacked, but celebrated.

Right? As if there weren’t hipsters in the 50's (beats), 60's and 70's (hippies), 80's, 90's...

There’s really no such thing. Since the US is a country of immigrants, you’ll find German culture, Irish and Italian culture, etc, etc... But culture, folklore, language, food simply based on white skin??? Nope!

I’d agree that “White People” as a group don’t really have an overall culture.

Damn- some of that stuff looks beautiful!

I’m not saying by any stretch that those living in these neighborhoods should feel “guilty.” Rather, it’s important to recognize that this issue isn’t so easily fixed. Google and the other Silicon Valley tech firms are guilty, if anything, of unintended consequences. 25 years ago, no techie ever thought that East…

Okay, that sounds reasonable. Affordable housing has to be blended in to neighborhoods with a mix of income levels rather than built into the kinds of “projects” and “housing estates” we’ve traditionally seen in the US and Europe. 

The problem is that public housing hasn’t exactly been a screaming success.. Housing projects, which initially seemed to be a good idea, created horrendous, unforeseen problems in poor neighborhoods.

East Palo Alto had the highest murder rate in the country in 1992, with almost one of every 500 residents being killed each year. Through a combination of policing and gentrification, the place has become very safe.

For months after Bernie endorsed Hillary, Jill Stein not only refused to endorse Hillary, but tried to convince people that Hillary was more dangerous than Trump.

Yes. It was fucked up. The Republican Party was a much, much better party than the Dems prior to the 60's. Then, they got in bed with the religious right and lost their intellectual roots.

Most rational comment of the day! Unfortunately, too many people on the far left would rather be blindingly furious all the time.

Perhaps at a swinger club.

Yup. The most racist elements within any of those organizations would be far more potentially dangerous than a registered member of the KKK or the Nazi Party.