Probably because so much of what passes for being progressive online is taking ideologically sexy but wildly unrealistic positions and then shitting all over people who don’t match those positions 100%

It sounds like Hamilton Nolan is writing under the pen name Joan Summers. 

Unemployed? Uh nice try troll. What galls you & the fat fucking piece of shit you likely voted for is that he is worth more than his bloated ass. Oh and even if she did put on some pounds she still looks better than the surgically enhanced whore masquerading as a “First Lady.” You go and Be Best now okay?

I’m not crying you are. The excellence of this family drove America to what we have. Let that sink in.

I have nothing but hatred towards Thurman and his ilk. Black women have enough to worry about without Black men attacking and raping and killing them too.

Weird, because I am a man and use exclamation points, rarely use “yes” or “ok”, and have been known to spend upwards of 5 minutes crafting a one-line response e-mail for proper tone.

Cops aren’t stupid, they just don’t care. It doesn’t matter that it’s a flimsy excuse, no one is going to do anything. If any of those family members had attempted to intervene, the cops would have killed them and no one would have been held accountable.

It’s a fucking hotel parking lot. There are going to be people coming and going and milling about in that space all the fucking time, at all hours of the day or night. There’s nothing “suspicious” about being in a hotel parking lot. Nothing, except, being black in said parking lot.

Why is the onus to prevent shit never on the people who are (presumably) trained to de-escalate? 

“Could easily have been prevented” by them not being racist assholes.

If it’s just a violation, couldn’t the officer have said “Eating is prohibited in this area, would you mind putting that away?” Easy, right? Nope! They’re always packed and ready to go on their power trip.

Alternatively, a simple answer to all of the above:
I’ve been sitting in that uncomfortable seat for hours and my legs/knees stretching.

I’ll bite.. as a heavy travaller, while I can’t (and won’t speak for EVERYONE on the plane, I can give some reasonable answers to this):

Because my fat ass has been wedged in that tiny ass seat for hours and if I don’t stand up soon I am gonna be stuck permanently in that position.

I do the exact opposite; I stand up as soon as the plane takes off

So she has no problem (rightly) calling Israel out on their genocidal BS against the Palestinians, but acknowledging a genocide that happened over 100 years ago is a bridge too far? I expected far better from her. I know no one is perfect, especially politicians, but *insert Tyra Banks “we were rooting for you!” gif*.

So hold the USA accountable, that’s no reason to give Turkey a pass.

Not one person has argued that America has moral high ground on the issue (they obviously do not). Likewise no one is arguing that those other examples of crimes against humanity shouldn’t be acknowledged in the same way. The fact of the matter is that Omar abstained from the opportunity to acknowledge a historical…

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I miss President Obama so much.