It’s also often false. I’m a white liberal, and guess what; I live in a neighborhood with huge amounts of recent immigrants, where I am distinctly a minority. I also know multiple other white liberals where this is true.

Yeah, I don’t think the Saunders piece fits into this article’s thesis the way Stassa’s trying to force it to.

Slightly off topic, but. I would just like to share that when I went to a Trump rally (immediately after attending a BLM protest in Baltimore), I was told I should put my GoPro away (I routinely strap it to my chest during protests) because I wasn’t going to want the footage of what they were going to do to me.

The “both sides do it” narrative is a false one. The stoking of anger and malevolence is a one-sided affair.

This is one of my least favorite conservative arguments — that liberals are disingenuous in their racial progressiveness, with the implication being that conservatives shouldn’t have to feel guilty for their prejudices because liberals are really prejudiced too. “It’s okay that we’re racist because we’re honest about…

Got to disagree here. I thought the primary function of Saunder’s piece was to humanize, to put a few faces and stories to the blobs we assign as “Other”. It was an important reminder that no matter where you fall—right, left, cop, protester, Trump, anti-Trump—there are always people on the other side with their own…

I was reading the New Republic one the other day, and I kept thinking to myself, “haven’t I read this before?” So I checked the post date, and nope, it was brand new. And the reason it felt so familiar is because if I have to read one more fucking Two Americas piece... no, this is one America, warts and all, and Trump…

Social media and #activism created these self-aggrandizing, holier-than-thou shits with delusions of Herzog.

—the realization that there are two Americas, as well as the delusion that they’re are inherently separate from one another, complete with ideologies that never overlap

that part (Two Americas) of the Saunders piece really struck me as...rushed? Undercooked? He’s better than that. Also that part where he grabs a black woman’s arm and explains her own values to her....a little cringe.

Really excellent piece.

She is no true scotswoman.

Now I realy just want to know what she did to get kicked out of one side of Lake Tanganyika

....#MakeZambiaGreatAgain

He’s wondering if she’s going to try and traffick him.

My thoughts exactly! They can go off into the sunset together saying racist, incorrect, facts about the country (lol) of Africa then clasp hands, gaze into each other’s eyes and whisper, “It’s not my fault that you found my offense comments offensive. Obviously you’re the offensive one as you’ve been offended.”

I know it doesn’t really apply but idc.

‘Heart of Daftness’ is a very good joke. I laughed when I first saw it, and laughed again just now — the difference was a matter of seconds, but still. It holds up. It’s that vaulted British humor, folks, which help the British go through some truly trying times.

I dunno but this reminds me of Rachel dolezal or however you spell her name. I feel like the story is going to continue getting more and more interesting. Curious to see who is more delusional, when the other ones life story came out it was a shit show. I imagine this woman's life also being an epic shit show. They're…

Of course she is.