“Hey, he was black and walking around in public. What else do other reason do we need before stopping, belittling, and injuring him?” — anonymous source

They just gotta decide what “facts” to make up first.

Add having inescapably large breasts on top of that since age 13 and just watch the damn pain set in.

I’m 59 and can confirm that getting older doesn’t mean the bullshit stops. It takes a different tone, one that starts out convinced that it’s target needs to hear that she’s still pretty hot for an old lady, and ends with threats of violence and ageist insults when the target doesn’t simper and coo in response. This…

You know what’s a solid compliment? Something like “your hair is awesome!” or “those shoes are really cool!”, said from a respectful distance, and then going on about your day. This horseshit is none of that.

Unless that woman is your girlfriend, your wife, or a friend you need hype up before hitting the town, KEEP YOUR FUCKING COMPLIMENTS TO YOURSELF.

Her eyes just say it all in that pic. Total annoyance and rapanoia.

This sounds similar to my wife’s experiences while we lived and traveled in the US south. If I was with her and our son, we would get better service. In restaurants, stores, everywhere. If I wasn’t, they would get ignored or get poor service. And lots of stares. There were also a few occasions when we had to leave…

I had a number of similar experiences with my mum, rest her soul, a white woman. One time we were at a pub in England, in the town she and I were both born in, I was having a pint and we were just sitting by ourselves, minding our own business. I went to the bathroom, came back and she wanted to leave immediately.

The South is racist in ways that the North is differently racist. I grew up in OH, and have worked and lived in PA, WI, NC, GA, DC, MD, and NY. It is interesting to me, and just my opinion and observation, that your racism in the South is now pretty much behind closed doors. Up North, it’s pretty much in your face…

It’s a fandom nickname. Darla and Dru didn’t have a threesome with Dracula either, it was with a comedic one-off character called “The immortal,” whose schtick is that he’s the coolest guy in the universe. And also immortal.

Winter Soldier is still my favorite MCU movie- the fight scenes are just SO GOOD. They are so well choreographed. I love how the entire movie builds up the Winter Soldier as this just badass mofo, and when he and Cap finally throw down.... It DOES. NOT. DISAPPOINT. That first Cap vs. Winter Soldier fight is SO good.

I saw the movie and enjoyed it, even as I realized it was giving Chris Kyle a much nicer view than he deserved. I’d read a profile of him some months earlier, after he’d been killed, and he did not sound like a great guy. The reviews of the movie were positive, and while I’m as bleeding-heart liberal as they come I’m…

Imagine learning about this and thinking that there is no institutional racism in America. Every single one of these incidents should be in every single US history textbook and taught in every class.

I think “protecting Croucher’s feelings” isn’t the correct rationale to assign to Left Bank and the C-suite.

I mean the biggest thing with “royal experts” is that all of them have clearly never met any of the people they claim to be experts on, given how they waffle on about “oh what I think paedo/racist/lazy means this” when it’s the most banal things made out to be deliberate actions of serious importance. If we saw…

For me "Royals expert" is synonymous with "racist". I mean, obviously, but they're truly out in the press being disgusting and racist and acting aghast when they get called on it.

Ms. Latif, this was excellently done.

Jesus, just when I was about ready to write off this site for good, a thoughtful, insightful long-form piece like this drops at the end of the day.

It’s already got a label. Human nature. We just happen to be living in one of those time periods where the our ugliest impulses (and we all have ‘em and they’re always lurking below the surface) are being magnified and exploited by the worst people among us.