Yeah. Not sure how not being into that means you’ve got “outdated thoughts on sex.” To each their own, I say. And I got the sense she was just trying to be funny when she said, “look what happened!” Not sure why she has to say she likes something if she doesn’t. I would say the same thing, not in a way that expressed…

I’m firmly against the draft. But if my guy friends had to register for Selective Service, I should have had to, as well. (At this point, since I’m over 45, I doubt I will ever have to register for the draft. And since I’m over 45 *and disabled*, I wouldn’t actually get drafted. So the point is moot. But 18-year-old…

Words have meaning and he is on record as being very anti semantic and anti-Jewish. No way around it, Farrakhan is a HUGE bigot. He may not be David Duke’s exact equal but he’s far, far from innocent.

Hey, but unemployment for African Americans was at 13 percent! That’s . . . important context, somehow?

Yeah because the Jews have REAAAALLY had it super easy.

I’m sorry, I have to take exception - Farrakhan refers to Jews as the “Synagogue of Satan” (Detroit, May 2013) Farrakhan is also anti-LGBT & believes Isrealis/Jews are responsible for 9/11 - he is most certainly of the same clothe as David Duke.

KKK hates Jews too, but there are probably less instances of violence against Jews in the US because you can’t exactly tell if someone is Jewish just by looking at them.

So saying something racist or alligning with racists and supporting them makes you a racist, but anti-semitism is only deplorable when you act upon it? Otherwise, it’s just ‘words’?

exactly - Ellison may not share Farrakhan’s sentiments but he also didn’t find those sentiments worthy of creating distance between himself and Farrakhan, that can be seen as somewhat problematic to a large swath of Jewish people.

Many white supremacists have never participated directly in violent acts against black people, but if they are mouthing the exact words that people used over the centuries to keep black people down, then it doesn’t really matter, does it?

I’ll try to explain this in very simple terms.

He’s saying he hopes she doesn’t live so long that her every day standard of morality becomes antiquated nonsense. It definitely is a dumb thing to say no matter what.

Genuine question: why do the British people complain about the cost of the Royals? They are the only reason any tourists come to the UK! Without the Royal Family you just have lots of rain and unclean kebab shops.

The very wealthy can afford for their children to do fun stuff instead of sit behind desks.

Sounds like some kind of New Age feel-goodery.

I disagree, actually. It does portray boarding school as a cool place to get into hijinks with your awesome friends too. I used to love British books about boarding school when I was a kid, and although a lot of the books included magic (okay, all of them), the part I liked the most was the relatively adult-free…

Right? The only other boarding school mentioned in the series was St. Brutus’ Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys which sure seems like it was J.K. Rowling poking a bit of fun at the stereotype of how terrible boarding schools are.

Or a child labor factory in disguise if you think about it...

Only if you aspire to become a shipwright or a gardener.

Counterpoint: Swinton (who may or may not be real, we may never know the truth) is the one who mentioned a fictional school in the discussion of reality so shit that ain’t real is fair game.