And you better bring your waxing A game or it will look like the “gift” is a nest of spiders

.... haven’t pulled this one out in a while, but; Dear Mr. Lasner and Dear Husband of Mr. Lasner,

“If there was a class called the “The Problem of Blackness,” or “The Problem of Hispanics,” or “The Problem of Jewishness” this website would be up in arms.”

there is a book called How the Irish Became White, which you’d think doesn’t make any sense! They’re European! They’re the whitest of the white, next to the Nordic!

The course title is clearly referencing WEB Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), wherein DuBois uses the refrain “how does it feel to be a problem?” to refer to the condition of being black in the US. Flipping the script makes people pay attention when they ordinarily wouldn’t think about an issue at all. Which…

Force them all to audit the course. Maybe they’ll learn something outside of their echo chamber.

I don’t really have a problem with the name, but it’s like the college course equivalent of clickbait. Most people who’ll take it will probably go in like “Oh, this’ll probably be about the institutionalized white power structure and it’s pervasive racial oppression throughout the western world”, but a republican…

“Whiteness” is a construct designed by a particular group of people in order to exclude particular other groups and deny them their rights. It has been used to mean or to exclude a variety of people of varying skin tones and ethnic backgrounds, depending on what was convenient at the time. “Blackness” is also a social…

And just like that, white Republican lawmakers add another two weeks of materials to the course’s syllabus.

“Go wash that makeup off your face or you’re grounded” is all I’m picking up from this.

Hi. Them’s fightin’ words.

Because poor women make lawmakers feel better about themselves. Lawmakers can look at poor women and blame all negative circumstances and outcomes on those women and not the system that failed. Lawmakers get to pat themselves on the back for doing nothing to help.

Not to mention it doesn’t actually treat chronic pain. The preponderance of medical evidence suggests strong painkillers like that are good only in short term situations. I remember seeing studies that said it actually makes pain worse for people with chronic pain.

“Critics fear that the expansion of chronic pain’s definition to make it eligible for treatment by a powerful opioid will lead to widespread addiction and mismanagement.”

Fuck this.

Oh, so are you white? Because actual Black people know exactly who those people are and talk about them. And are you young? The Olds are going to know who those people are more than Youngs.

Modernism does not equal enlightenment.

Oh shit! You got math burned.

They allow 7-year-olds to become policemen in Turkey?