A black man suggesting not being black may help you not be shot by the police? Get off your high horse. You must be a Christian white male.

Another rule: If you have violated rule #1, try to make sure you work for a white dude.

It is amazing how many commenters are able to fool themselves into thinking that all of these folks that were killed by police "had it coming". And those who points out that racism exists are the "real racists".

This is also my experience. I know many good men who might not read bell hooks, but who practice active consent, respect boundaries, and listen more than they speak when women are discussing their experiences. The guy that walks in yelling about his reading list and his personal practices is the guy that I do not…

Yes, the part about listening more than they talk is the most important. I have encountered countless male 'feminists' who think that because they're feminists, they can go ahead and act as if they know more about feminism and women's experience than women do.

I have never experienced assault at the hands of a male feminist, but I have experienced Macktivism for sure. I only trust men who listen more than they talk about feminism (in a conversation with women), who are feminist in actions but not necessarily name. I look for nuances in conversation, reactions to real world…

I really don't understand conspiracy theorists who believe that there are secret rulers of the world, but that they are so blasé about their secrecy that they intentionally put all kinds of clues to their existence wherever and wherever they can. I mean just assuming for a second that they're right about these secret…

That does precisely nothing against the SWATting threat. That's the most dangerous threat she received, in my view.

Owning a gun does not make you safer. It makes you more than four times as likely to be shot either fatally or nonfatally as compared to the general population.

I'm not anti-gun. I grew up in a place with guns. I understand their utility. But the reason I've never bought one — besides the difficulty of getting a CHL license in New York — is that it's another thing someone can wrestle away from me and use against me. I just don't think it's a solution to the larger issue.

"People who haven't really suffered yet think it's edgy and shows you have a thick skin and a good sense of humor to laugh at other people's suffering. ("I'm so tough; this video of a beheading doesn't faze me at all." "Tee hee, it's hilarious to harass the parents of a kid who committed suicide, because I don't know…

I think the thinking is "It's stupid to have feelings and if I make you show them by scaring you, threatening you, or harassing you, I WIN."

Jesus Christ. This is a great article (you are becoming one of my favorite writers on here) and I'm so sorry you're going through all this.

Time and again, my White colleagues like to say Racism in the United States (world) is something that just fell into place by happenstance.

This is absolutely wrong. It was manufactured, and intricately put in place by White Men to protect their power and supremacy. Here is a great quote from early in US history:

"Andrea Perron is appearing at para-conferences now, to tell HER side of the story and how much BS was added."

I read that the Lutzes bought the house, regretted it and got underwater on their mortgage. Knowing the history of the house, they made all the haunted shit up so they could profit off it and get out from under their debt.

There was a study I read about years ago where they took two houses (one people said was "haunted," one brand new), and two groups of people (one group believed in ghosts, the other did not) and conducted an experiment to test if ghosts were real. Using controls, they had non believers stay in both houses without…

No no, that death was a RESULT of the movie! SHE thought it was a true story, and thus went looking for the buried missing $1million. So, in this instance, the "based on true events' ended up causing a true event as weird and tragic as the story: