As anyone who’s spent any time on the interwebs knows, engaging with a troll is an unwinnable game. The only way to get them to disappear is to stop feeding them. All these excuses about “Inviting him lets us know the enemy” and “If he’s so horrible, let’s debate him” will take you down the rabbit hole of showing that…

Well, I dunno. Maybe if more people studied liberal arts, there would be fewer people confusing utility with monetary value.

His father is in fact failing to engage with the “real world” when he is unable to both accept that his son did something wrong while also advocating for leniency. He can only do one at the expense of the other, and that is a problem.

This. In the Soviet Union, it was normal to shower only like once a week. My mom tells me she could barely sit through her university lectures because of people’s BO.

Well, this would explain why my co-worker asked me why I smell like weed when I tried the Santal 33 sample today :-/

This helps with the question of whether it was intentional (and I’m 99.9% sure it wasn’t) but whether it’s deliberate or not doesn’t really change the fact that an image with a white model leaning on a black one has a different meaning than one of a black model leaning on a white one.

I am sorry for what you had to go through. Trauma literally is when you are left alone to make sense of a horrific circumstance. Reading your post made me realize that people want to get away from scary emotions so badly, that they will often sooner try to blame the person who was attacked than face that a horrible…

Here’s a thought: could it be that vegans are not actually attacking anyone personally but that meat-eaters feel guilty and then project their guilt onto vegans? It’s very curious that vegans trigger so much indignation. P.S. I am not a vegan or a vegetarian, though I used to be for over a decade.

Your discomfort and anger at feeling unappreciated remind me that as a person who has white privilege, I will probably ultimately do less damage by focusing inward—on my own fear, anger, etc, rather than on what I can do to help POC. It seems that a lot of times we want to be helpful because we want to disown the…

I wouldn’t data scientist :-/

If Bernie manages to get the presidency because enough people in this country feel he represents them, that’s not nothing. While I get the reasons for the whole pragmatism thing, to say that public opinion plays no role in what’s ultimately possible in terms of social change seems ahistorical to me.