That made Locomotive Jones respect Van Jones a little bit. He’s actually honest when he hears a great speech— unlike you blithering hypocrites, who pretend it was awful.

Not everything needs to have a racial element.

Since when are white people not allowed to make jazz music? I guess I’ll go back in time and tell Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller to knock it off.

I was wondering if I was the only one that thought this was a really shit comment to make.

I don’t understand this logic. I loved Bad Brains back in the day. Zero fucks did I give for them being a black punk band.

I would never try to state that “white people” were responsible for Jazz, that would be ludicrous.…

He presented the statue to three white men who won an award for making jazz music.

My issue with them is that they make these speeches to make themselves feel good and look good but don’t put forth any real effort or any of their significant money and privilege towards making real change.

Actually i’d wager that the barista is more qualified, given that they’re probably making minimum wage in the service industry rather than getting paid millions to dress up and play make believe

These are the exact moments the cop felt threatened:

Let me preface this by saying that the officer, I believe, is in the wrong. It appears that he went overboard and he completely mishandled it.

Unfortunately people don’t like things to be that simple. For me feminism is about having the freedom to choose who you want to be rather than being forced into a particular box because of your gender, race, religion or sexual identity. It’s about equality.

I like your take - the same as what Plato wrote. Don’t analyze too much and go do it.

Why do we need to argue semantics?

yeah.

Well, it was on Twitter, so basically a sitcom :p

I always thought feminism was pretty simple. Men and women should be treated equally. In that sense, all who believe that is a feminist. No dilution, no soapbox, just equal treatment. Why do we need to argue semantics?

Tell me this was on a fictitious sitcom because no one can be that daft.

I’m personally sick of cutesy, swallow, self-centered feminism. And I’m really sick of reactionary feminism that is hysterical over dumb things (i.e. I just watched a bunch of women screaming at a Twitter ad about how binge drinking affects women’s health and they called it victim blaming. Um, they aren’t talking…

Eh, I mean essentially the situation was: As long as the Jewish community accepted subjugation, they were somewhat accepted (and occasionally protected) by the Muslim community (aside from periodic massacres or lootings). That is the “benevolent harmony” you are describing. Once the Jewish community strived for…

When the mosque in Victoria, TX burned down, folks at the local synagogue gave the homeless congregation keys.

Well, I know that in my neck of the woods, Jewish groups have been working hard to get legal help for refugees who are having problems because of the executive order, but that’s just off the top of my head.