Please tell us you’re still with us. Please say you’re still here.

I still don’t know how that version ended because I could not continue watching after that scene. Legit cried off and on for a month after that!

Right. There’s no real currency in knowing the plot, because it’s not like he’s referencing the novel, which he likely hasn’t read.

Nah, but he did strangle her to death before Frankenstein could consummate the marriage. It’s definitely a sexually suggestive killing though. There’s a sense of cosmic retribution because he married his cousin despite a deathbed promise at the beginning of the novel not to. So, plotwise, there’s the monstrosity of…

Or “why didn’t he report! Seems like a money grab to me...” 😞

Are you a rhet-comp instructor? You are doing such an amazing job with comprehension and fighting the good fight against cherry-picking and calling it evidence. 👌🏾

This is nauseating.

It seems like your criticism is of specific—though unnamed—authors, so I guess I’m still not convinced of the broader accusation of a “race-baiting” “agenda” that you attribute to the Root. But it’s not your duty to make folks see the world as you see it, so stand by whatever you like :)

A small quibble: the Root publishes MANY stories about black folks doing awful and awesome things within and outside of the community. The “agenda” is to focus on myriad issues that affect black people in America and sometimes abroad. It seems you have some confirmation bias or you mainly click the stories that you…

I actually make a great living teaching! I have a few advanced degrees, so I am well-compensated, have job flexibility, and could do anything else. I don’t know where that puts me on your sympathy meter, but I teach because I love it. And I teach difficult things despite having difficult attachments to some of the…

Well, many of us do things in our jobs that are uncomfortable. For instance, sometimes I have to teach books that involve sexual assault. It can be emotionally taxing, but I believe in the work and think it adds something to the lives of my students.

She’s a sexual assault survivor. I’m not sure any amount of money would make it easier to reinhabit that mindframe.

I see the link between the two issues, but it only solidifies for me that “let them fucking die” is a rhetorical proposition that is means to call attention to the irrationality of racism, which is experienced by doctors and first responders of color. It’s a saturnalia in which the great reveal is that the white…

Trump is def going to tweet that he wasn’t planning to invite them anyway.

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My only point is that he did not raise or (publicly) claim his daughter, and he was not in a relationship with her mother. The woman in the video is not paying to keep her mixed children a secret. She is married to her brown husband. She is not a good parallel for Thurmond and his situation. Indeed, I wouldn’t be…

Strom Thurman had secret “relations” (i.e. felt entitled to have sex) with his family’s black housekeeper. They weren’t dating or married, and he never claimed that child though he did send her money from time to time. This is a far different beast!

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While reading this, I slowly turned into a LOLWUT meme.