Yeah, at the risk of sounding pretentious, I keep coming back to a quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates about how racism works, because it drills down so successfully on how bigotry works not so much by active malice, as by subtly and continually shifting burdens of proof off of those in charge, and onto the beleagured:

This is so Trumpian.

Also spineless.

There is an enormous burden on marginalized populations to advocate and claw and fight for themselves so they can prove themselves worthy of being treated *the same* as white men. Even collective action, as opposed to each woman fighting individually for her own coin, is not as fruitful as power structures making…

He is not my ideal candidate either but ffs, Republicans don’t do this to each other, and that is why they win.

It was the Oprah Winfrey show. High Class Battered Women was the name of the episode I guess. 

This is called vetting a candidate and it is a necessary and healthy part of any democracy.

Trump is the worst in every way. Period. Biden sucks ass and if the choice is Biden over Trump...well fuck. I’ll vote Biden and hate it.

If you think tolerating bigotry against women and minorities is no big deal, then you’re part of the problem. You can never wonder why it’s 2019 yet on race relations, we’re still in the 1950s.

We’re definitely conditioned from the very beginning to shy away from anything remotely associated with girls. Don’t play with dolls, don’t wear pinks (or other bright colors), be physical and on and on. I make an effort to step out of that kind of upbringing as much as possible but it’s still something I have to…

I was the only kid in my family to have a job in high school. When I started making money, I bought certain foods I liked but my mom wouldn’t buy. And I always, always wrote my name on everything. Did that matter? No. My brother drank all my egg nog. My sister ate my $7 chunk of cheese, AND she’d offer it to other…

I relate hard to the last two paragraphs here. I really like him and hope that he can use this to get some momentum for a House or Senate run (at the very least, he’d be an improvement on Evan Bayh or Joe Donnelly.) But the more the spotlight has shone on him, the less appealing he looks as a candidate (particularly…

• BA, Philosophy/Politics/Economics, Oxford University

This is false. Under is plan around 600 vacant and abandoned houses were demolished and around 400 houses were repaired. No resident of these neighborhoods were pushed out of their houses. Homes are very affordable in South Bend. Too affordable even ($30,000 -$40,000 for some and mansions cost like $80,000). Banks…

If you liked the Samantha Bee segment, then you have to go back and watch the Vice story that it pulled from. I am a sucker for trying an MLM product and even signed up as a distributor for one of them just so I could get the discount, but the nonstop emails and facebook posts are insane. I follow along just because…

This is the perfect time for Jezebel to do a long piece about how MLMs prey on vulnerable women in the name of feminism and financial freedom when the reality is it sucks them dry and leaves them friendless and poorer than they started out.  It’s so gross how MLMs work and what they do to people. 

Don’t get too attached. Netflix likes to cancel shows after the third season. I’m still annoyed about Santa Clarita Diet

Well it wouldn’t help, because America seems perfectly happy to give him (and a whole whack of other reprehensible assholes) a platform

But they do reinforce these ideas. Which is why people look confused when I’m the one to change my son’s diaper and I have to complain there’s no space in a men’s room to change a diaper.

Is the United Kingdom finally going to ban Piers Morgan then? Because I'm down with that.