I wouldn’t call it a minstrel show, but a savvy — even cynical — marketing ploy that expands her brand through a relatively low-risk display, of which its choreographed nature completely subdues any anarchic potential.

Actually, that would have been truly radical and shocking.

Lies. There was gonna be genocide over this! There still might be genocide over this! Hamno tells us that whites are super pissed about this!!!!!

Probably because the Anti-Beyonce people we keep being told about never existed in the first place.

/looks at article

If the cause has no meaningful effect, it is not a cause.

So a group of people showed up IN SUPPORT of beyonce, but no one showed up against her?

But but but they threatened to kill black people! (I'm assuming. I didn't get past the first few lines before realizing it was a shitpost)

Maybe the event was a hoax by the cops to get even more overtime protecting the staging area.

so you’re saying nowhere near as many people are “outraged” or even give a shit about this as some media entities (ahem ahem) would like you to believe? I’m just shocked I tell you. Shocked.

But but but Hamilton Nolan quoted like five random internet people that posted mean things about Beyonce... and there was the SNL skit... are you telling me the vast majority of people give zero shits about her performance? That can’t be...

SO.TRUE.

Don’t worry. If you keep posting, one day, a Gawker writer who disagrees with what you posted will demote you back to grey.

Seriously. Originalism is just dumb. And he was a bigot who wrote a cheeky turn of phrase. Can we all move on now?

The GOP plan to obstruct considering his replacement for 11 months makes me sick.

Always love the “it’s not in the Constitution” hypocrisy. If Scalia et al want something: “It’s not prohibited by the Constitution!” And if they don’t want it: “It’s not specifically protected by the Constitution!”

“You posit the situation where a person that you know for sure knows the location of a nuclear bomb that has been planted in Los Angeles and will kill millions of people. You think it’s an easy question?”

I mean, the Federalists did distrust the general populace enough to keep even landless white men from voting. Folks like Adams referred to democracy derisively as “mobocracy” and a “leveling spirit.” That’s why we have the electoral college, after all. But fuck trying to live our lives in the mold of elite men who…

There has been plenty of writing done on the adverse effects on Scalia’s opinions and legacy, and I don’t want to add anything more to what’s already been said. I just have another request.

But he used such wonderful language when comparing gay people to pedophiles, you have to love him, or something