Yea, white progressives tend to be just as racist and horrible as the white conservatives they look down upon. My own liberal utopia, Madison, WI, has a well deserved reputation for treating PoC like shit. In fact, I recently read about a study that showed that white progressives were actually a few percentage point…

Rubbish, she showed her true colors as Home Secretary. Always was and always will be a right wing conservative and anti immigration windbag.

She’s still a horrible person.

As a Black woman, it always weirds me out when people say things like this, as I experience, see, read, and hear about people being openly racist to people who look like me every day, and know firsthand how strong anti-Black racism is in many Asian communities. This idea that other POC and some white people have that…

I don’t understand what you mean? You’re saying suppressing protests and jailing dissidents didn’t work? Well, yes, you’re right. The activists eventually started blowing shit up, and that proved to be quite motivational in that particular situation.

So, in other words, this guy wants to put his semen over black women. So, he has to represent his fetish in his “art”. Yeah. We pretty much see past you dude. Thanks for your contribution to the art community. We are all terribly fucking impressed. Golf clap. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

So how come cops always seems to shot and kill the black man without a weapon but the white guy who shot up an elementary school is taken into custody without incidence? Cops seems to inherently see black men as constant threats. I guess maybe they identify with angry white men so they feel more comfortable handling…

Forget videos of officers playing a game of basketball with “city youths” or pretending to pull black people over but handing them ice cream, this is how you build community trust and put skin in the game.

So many people have devoted 25+ years of their lives to obtaining a PhD, academic research, and writing to teach at a world renowned university. If Angelina Jolie was teaching my class I would want my money back.

I just got done listening to this, which is also in this thread (though it’s already getting long enough that you might not have even seen it first time through)

If you’re in MA I’d seriously consider NOT voting for her and voting 3rd party. Glaude’s theory is pursuasive to me:

It sounds like you are right on the money. To me the biggest problem with Hillary are her supporters, even if you state you are going to vote for and still criticise her you will end up with backlash on here. Now we are seeing liberals praising George W Bush, so i can not imagine that they will ever hold Hillary to…

I would hope that the discussion would be about how white republicans and democrats benefit from the modern enslavement and mistreatment of black people, and now latinx considering CCA also builds detention centers that detain migrant and undocumented families indefinitely. But It’s probably just going to devolve into…

The day we as a country start thinking critically about our relationship with Israel will be a difficult one.

You mean the New York cops that have more than once in recent years managed to shoot innocent bystanders while failing to hit the armed gunman?

I’m going to be honest. I like Holland Taylor and I like Sarah Paulson. But I am grossed out by their age difference. Same as I am grossed out by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas.

“funny how you don’t criticize women of color for straightening their hair.”

I think you’re misunderstanding cultural appropriation, actually—or perhaps a better way to put it is that you and I have a different understanding of what it is.

I am a professor. No professor has four months off. You know what we do with our summers? Desperately work 70 hour weeks to catch up on the research we couldn’t do during the school year, so we can publish results and keep our jobs. I work every day, including weekends and holidays. Take a family vacation? That’s me…

4 months off? They get 4 months to research and work on their publications. Plus they have graduate students to advise, duties towards the university, conferences to organize/attend and grant applications to write. The real money comes only as a full professor, after you’ve spent years working evenings and weekends to…