Buckley was so damned arrogant I’m not sure he knew when his ass had been handed to him.

Yes, I think that’s exactly what it is—his undeniable bite right into the heart of things is so true that it can’t be reduced to something unthreatening.

Her courage is amazing. To tell those details so specifically, as many of us know, is so hard. She’s setting a standard for solidarity too, having felt prompted to reveal all this truth based on the lies he told in response to the first woman’s accusation. And she sure is putting herself at risk, as she described…

i agree...not always. My son’s father is black. His hair is a medium brown, loose curls. Everyone who sees my son thinks he is white, though, in fact, he looks a lot like his dad.

Lee Merritt is a force to be reckoned with.

I looked hard for even one sentence that was worth writing in all that abstract B.S. he wrote. Did not find it.

Thank you for this lucid comment. I especially appreciate this: “Someone using you & your body as a tool, like you don’t even matter...” That is the essence of abuse. It is selfish use of a person, as if they are a “thing.” And after it’s over, that’s what you feel, so it’s not ever over.

I’ve never understood how Dunham was seen as the millenial feminist icon. If the selfish, self-indulgent, hideous character defects revealed her white girl characters is “feminism,” something is terribly distorted in our thinking. Is feminism doing whatever the hell you want with no connection to anyone else? I…

wOW. Beautiful to behold! She boxed him into a corner and he had no way out.

I agree with the “more creepy” descriptor. It was scary at some of the more surprising points, but mostly just creepy. The humor was fabulous, so that leavened the creepiness up a notch or two, to “morbid fascination.” Definitely a “horror” show. We who are white liberals have a creepy form of racism that was…

Interesting. I agree. but I didn’t see anything in Damon’s article that seemed intended to make us “feel sorry for them.” It all sounded to me like taking a hard look and taking responsibility.

Dignity and beauty. These posters are gorgeous.

lol! this is hilarious.

yeah, it’s an outright denial that there is any problem. She should have said, “we are disappointed to hear about these problems on our airline. We assure you that we have already begun an investigation and will take action as needed.”

But isn’t that in fact core to the story, the fact that racists yell exactly that? The point being made was realistic; this IS what racist adults say to their children to keep them within the white supremacist fold. When I heard it from my Dad as a child it was deeply confusing, disturbing, as if “love” could ever be…

I like all you said here. Thank you. One thing, though: you don’t have to wait for “actual proof.” Just believe the woman who tells you.

I thought the same thing. the guy looks like he’s in his forties. Tom Ley must be super young...

-yeah, seems to me to be a good role for the “ally.” To keep it from going down for people who will end up in jail semi-permanently for anything or nothing at all, while the cops if they show up won’t even notice the white guy, much less arrest him.

I think the false connection that white people make between police violence against black people and “black on black crime” is their false belief in cause and effect between the two. In other words, they think that the police are already focused on black people for good reason, that reason being: (their mistaken…

I think “no” to your question to SixSpeedSteve, “so right where I am then, I don’t need to do anything?” Because you DO seem to be intentionally missing the point(s) in your follow up comments about “some white people,” and not knowing this was “anti-white.” Do you get the right of oppressed populations to vent, to…