She was the only employee in the entire store? I haven’t been in a Family Dollar in a while, but they’re not small mom-and-pop convenience stores. They’re fairly sizable. What the hell?

At first I thought so, but I think that they were specifically referring to cis men.

I agree, but they’re middle schoolers. They're still figuring out what a good amount of smell-goods is. Let she who has not dumped on a gallon of Love’s Baby Soft when she was 12 cast the first stone.

Who thinks their personal autonomy is more important than someone’s life? Is your autonomy solely defined by how you smell?

Actually, yes. Perfumes, by design, have stronger scent profiles than body wash or shampoo and conditioner. Also, it’s possible for people to have allergies to specific kind of scents. I had a co-worker who had a life-threatening allergy to citrus scents. It’s actually not that hard - I decided that her life was worth…

This is some Scandal levels of election manipulation here. Like this is worse than Scandal. That was just one location in one small town! When real life is worse than a soapy TV show you know we’re fucked.

I do think this was iffy from the start. I was defending dude on here,espite that, and I still feel bad for him. I think it’s likely he was probably making it all up.

Mel Gibson and Louis CK are white.

Jussie Smollett didn't make it harder. The racist power structure that believes we're all the same and function as a hive mind made it harder. Blame him for his individual stupidity for sure, but don't blame him for things that white people set up and enforce.

Fuck the eyes of the colonizers. They don't define us.

Becsuse Black History Month grew out of Black History Week, which was specifically chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. And "they" didn't give it to us; it was developed and pushed by Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

I’m from Atlanta, and I was thinking the same thing the whole time I was reading this.

I doubt it’s exposure. You may have never heard of him, but he is in a starring role in a major hit television series right now, and there are plenty of other things one can do for exposure.

We should be quick to rush to a victim’s defense. Most victims don’t fake their crimes. There’s a possibility that Jussie might have been, but that’s not going to change my response to hate crimes in the future, because these things do actually happen.

He hasn’t ruined his career. According to Jussie Smollett, he’s telling the truth. And the Chicago PD haven’t exactly been known as a bastion of truth and justice, so I am reserving judgment at the moment.

I grew up a JW; left when I was 18. Although it didn’t happen at my congregation, a congregation’s elders doing that would not surprise me in the least. As a young girl you’re basically groomed to think about marriage and who would be a suitable marriage mate from a young age - I remember my mom and aunts ‘teasing’ me…

Given they made a reference to Wayne’s World in their comment, I think they did get the joke and just thought it wasn’t funny.

And country can’t even really be mad because we made that shit, too.

I dunno, there are certain white people I might’ve taken over Jennifer Lopez.

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