It’s a distraction, just like the deficit was a distraction during the Obama era - now all the deficit hawks are saying, “well, the deficit doesn’t really matter.” They are us-ing and them-ing, telling struggling whites that the real problem is black and brown people, and if only they went away everything would be…

I taught high school in a country where the legal age was 16 and it was normal for guys in their twenties to day 15-16 year olds. I did not participate. It never even occurred to me to participate because teenagers suck. I don’t get the whole lolita thing. By and large teenagers are obnoxious kids who come from a…

Yeah, he may have a different memory of/interpretation  of some of this stuff, but sexting with an underage girl is pretty cut and dry.

What would be amazing is if some agency had approached him and said, we see you have a history of inappropriate behavior towards women, we see that you have written an album full of lyrics that are really angry towards women, we are now putting you in mandatory therapy with a licensed therapist with experience in this…

didn’t know there was a correlation between yoga pants and incels.

There is an atrocious, very recent history of anti-Semitism and genocide and oppression against Jewish people. The fact that there are also rich and powerful conservative Jews doesn’t negate that history. As a result, if you are gonna criticize Israeli policies, you gotta be sensitive to those stereotypes and tropes…

Harris isn’t white, and people are working hard to squash criticism of her. Given the media landscape we are in, it is difficult to tell if the criticism of a candidate is coming from an honest place, if it is progressive purity testing, or if it is some sort of Russian operative trying to muddy the waters. The fact…

I agree. The biggest victims in society are white people advocating for senseless, racist policies. It is a goddamn crime that you can’t even question whether genocide was all bad without a bunch of snowflakes jumping all over your ass.

Counterpoint: the maga assholes are people who have been conned by an effective conman, and if we want a way out of this nightmare we need at least some of them to join the non-racist shitbird team. Also, they are 1/60,000,000 of the problem. If as citizens we fight each other and buy into this yankees v red sox…

Banning maga hats only makes trump supporters feel like underdog victims, which is what they want, and it us’s and them’s us some more, which isn’t helping anyone. I’d be more into an establishment either donating some of their proceeds to groups that the administration is hurting (and there are so many to choose…

So their team would know who it was, but it wouldn’t be in public documents. that makes more sense. When I googled it all I got were hot takes on kavanaugh. So by wanting it to be public are they basically hoping the accuser won’t hold up to public scrutiny?

Spacey aside, it seems like if you are accused of doing something heinous, and are defending yourself in court, at the very least the accuser should be known to you. Maybe I’m missing something? Does spacey’s team mean that they want the accuser to be made totally public, or that their team wants to know who it is?…

I agree with you. I also think that this attitude sometimes infects conversations around equity and social justice - I have been in numerous discussions that devolve into who, statistically, is worse off. The term “privilege,” while useful in framing how certain groups are on a whole treated better or have better…

I’m just excited because based on the hot takes on his comments, if we get him to acknowledge he was being racist, racism might end.

Also, the Rs got a lot of energy and enthusiasm from voters opposed to “obamacare,” and they don’t seem to mind that 45 has put oil and coal industry shills in charge of the environment. Regulation, even regulation that helps their communities be healthier, is toxic for conservative voters.

“There’s also perennial (and often bad faith) questions over cost and how realistic it would be to attain these goals in a 10-year time span.” It is simply not possible to transition the US to all renewable energy in the next 10 years. California passed a high-speed rail bill ten years ago and that shit still ain’t…

i realize this is hella late, but i just gotta point out that wesley morris is not white. Most of the commenters seem to assume he’s white. He isn’t.

it’s a gastropub. Nothing kills the mood for a bunch of hip 20-30 somethings who will actually drink more than one beer than being around a bunch of parents and their kids. I get it. I have a kid, and i hate going out to eat with a bunch of kids. Restaurants are unnatural places for kids - they have to sit, be quite,…

Thanks for taking the time to respond. My experience of it (as a white dude) is clearly different than your experience.

My experience of the “Black women will save us” narrative is that it is mostly driven by…black women and other women of color. (generally in the context of ‘we are tired of saving you with no credit’). (including this site: https://theslot.jezebel.com/republicans-dont-have-a-woman-problem-1830282833).