My niece graduated last year from a (now closed) conservative Christian college. Her friends would post things on Facebook like “we’re so lucky to go to a school where everyone thinks like we do!” (Paraphrased.) Weirdly, that college wasn’t good enough for her brothers. One went to a highly-ranked Christian college,…

college students can take charge of their education and remain steadfast in their beliefs

The misuse of “bias” for “biased” confounds me. I just started seeing it in the last few years.

“The tensions between the two ethnic groups on the island is, of course, a legacy of colonialism. Hispaniola was separated by Europeans interested in domination: Christopher Columbus landed with his Spaniards in 1492 (yup, that was us, not you, Florida!) to wipe out the indigenous Taino population; the French claimed…

Actually, I believe it’s only been flying at the Capitol since 1962. Yes, they put it up 50 years ago. Hmmm, wonder why?

what a bunch of babies

I know, right. Its a brilliant piece of entrapment for them (even if it was totally unintentional).

Easily one of the dumbest things anyone has ever said, like I honestly can’t comprehend how fucking stupid this is. Are you trolling or are you legit serious?

Rick Perry called it “an accident”. Jeb Bush and Rudy Giuliani claimed that no one knew his motive (after everyone knew his motive). Fox News and Rick Santorum initially labeled it as an “attack on faith”. And of course, and bunch of outlets played the “mental illness” card.

To any people out there who doubt that America is almost as racist now as it was during the times of slavery, I highly recommend stepping out of your comfort zone and picking up this book. As a white guy, I’ve always hated the focus on race in this country, but I never knew how deeply-rooted racism was in our…

With white people bending over backwards to make excuses for a dude that literally said he killed black people because he was a racist, we have a looong way to go.

Pretty much the way Catholic institutions are told to invest. They can’t invest in tobacco companies, weapons manufaturers, anything that makes money off of the killing of people. It has been so for as long as I can remember.

Technically, we’ve never had anything like true/Marxist Communism, because it was meant to be a post-Capitalist, post-nationalist phase of economic development. We haven’t actually gotten to the point where the entire world could form one economy/one world government. Marx didn’t believe you could have Communism in…

It’s not a No True Scotsman fallacy if someone can determine that a chihuahua is not a great dane by looking at them and comparing features. Systems of government and economic practices can be analyzed, and since words like Communism, Capitalism, and Socialism mean things (when not used as some kind of ersatz…

It hasn’t happened in any country. But as a Communist, she’s motivated by ideology to do what she can to fight white supremacy. You asked what Communist belief has to do with fighting racism, people answered.

Well, at least you used the term ‘willy nilly’, and I approve of that.

What exactly is the axe you’re grinding here?

Communism is an ideology, and anti-racist thought and action are very much part of it in modern practice. It’s the duty of revolutionaries to destroy racist and sexist structures. It’s not a “buzzword,” it’s a system of belief.

Capitalism relies on racism and sexism to divide the proletariat for the benefit of the ruling class. Modern Communists, at least the ones I’m familiar with, are explicitly anti-racist and anti-sexist.