This is like telling the US-born child of immigrants that they’re not really American because of their lineage.

A large portion of Israel’s Jewish population is of Arab and North African descent. Natalie Portman is definitely not part of that portion of Israel. Her mother’s family came to Israel from the US. Her father’s side from Europe. There is nothing Asian about Natalie Portman.

“Israel is Asia” is a dumb take that I was genuinely not expecting to read today, so, congrats for that.

I’ve got dual Finnish-Canadian citizenship and can vouch that yeah, your daughter will be American by default unless she says otherwise, since Finnish/Latvian ethnicity isn’t visible in a generally ‘white’ majority.

As a non american living in an america I get asked all the time where am I from. It’s been decades but I have an accent still so I roll with it.

As an actual immigrant and naturalized American citizen, I wish to inform y’all that you’re a bunch of whiny, spoiled little babies.

Americans are weird about where they came from. My parents aren’t from this country, and I travel a lot. I’ve met many Americans who claim to be Irish, German, French, Swiss, etc., but never any “undesirable” countries. Then I’ll ask something about where because I visited X town or I’ll say something in that native…

Actually the trick is to be fat. True story.

I have been active in this space since 2007. I have seen many prominent commenters come and go. The problem is not with the current system. The problem is with people thinking they ought to be top dog or have prominence in some way. People come and go. Sometimes they are men, sometimes women. The people who last are…

The core problem is that you don’t care how you come across to other people. You want to say what you want to say and you don’t care how it is received (or rather, how it is received will not stop you saying what you want to say).

Read the Guardian online.

“I’m not doing them for vanity’s sake, I’m doing it because even if it’s just a few people who enjoy it they still want me to provide them.” And

This was well done and well thought out but unfortunately not going to affect anything. MD has successfully painted himself as a victim of lady bullies and will continue his long winded disingenuous “I don’t understand why you don’t like me” b.s until we all go. He is a 20 something dude who constantly posts his 20…

YES. I read The Root but that’s all I do. Many commenters there make it pretty clear that they’re not interested in hearing the white woman’s perspective - if they want that they can come here.

*vomit* There must be better lawyers near you. I hope so at least.

You’re right, if we have issues we should talk to you directly. I’m just so rarely lifted out if the greys.

Also a burner so no1curr, I very rarely engage on Jez largely because of the attitudes held by MD and those like him.

I’ve never had a personal problem with you. I suspect we are around the same age, and we definitely live in the same country. I have noticed, however, that you do make yourself at online home in places where others wouldn’t necessarily do.

One of the problems of the “approval”, “ungreyed” aspect of this site is that it allows a small handful of people to dominate the conversation.

Is this the same guy who posts a picture of his dog every day, as some sort of love-me symbol? ‘Cause I won’t lie, that’s annoying as fuck. There. I said what I said.