“People say a lot of things about Melania, but every time more info comes out about her husband, I feel a little sorry for her.”

Voldemort?

I’ve always thought that was the one statue that should remain. Anything that depicts a Confederate leader as a Shrek villain is unwittingly on-point.

What’s funny about that is the Coates is critical of both Obama and himself in “We Were Eight Years in Power.” This might not be a thing if Dr. West had read the book.

Sorry, bit confused: how is Coates centrist of liberal? I never got that impression, but then he never directly tackles economics except in regards to disparity and reparations. Is Dr. West actually calling Coates out for pushing a liberal economic world view, or just for not advancing a solidly left one?

“I believed that white people would never accept the inherent evil of white supremacy without it being tied to the macro-political reality of free-market economics.”

“Wearing whiteness as a symbol of pride and self-esteem is as idiotic as boring a penis hole in a Wile E. Coyote outfit to have a threesome with Barney and the yellow Care Bear (the pink one think she’s “all that”). ”

The upside of the 45th Presidency is that white supremacists out themselves in really amusing, ironic ways.

I’ve never understood the use of “identity politics” as a pejorative. It strikes me as sensible as critiquing womens’ rights activists as “feminists.”

This is largely why I lean more heavily towards sci-fi than fantasy. It’s very clear that most fantasy considers PoC as token supporting characters at best and token racist stereotypes at worst.
Sci-fi isn’t necessarily better, but it at least offers hope of a future where racialized biases (mostly by the author!) are…

“I’d say that roughly 89 percent of the visible penises in public men’s locker rooms belong to white men over 50.”

FACT! Hear I thought it was just me that didn’t get it.

“neutering the power of the words and causing people to become apathetic.”

LOL, she’s has her causation wrong. It’s not accusations of white supremacy that create apathy. It’s the the apathy of non-lexical activists that’s exposed when they have to wrap their minds around how pervasive and total white supremacy must be…

I agree with you. It would be wonderful if this could work more often.

Trump’s craziness constantly leads the media towards casting his associates as “adults” or as practicing “admirable restraint.”

Fuck that.

You’d be surprised how a novel a concept this is in the gaming industry.
Games Workshop’s products and fiction have a troubling history with non-white anything and this is the writing room for their flagship fiction campaign (Horus Heresy):

A lot comes down to your faith in the service. Twitter is the same place that’s cool with a President threatening mass death. Stick around for it to improve or just find a better use for your time? Some channels are just not going to be everyone’s cup of tea.

Has anyone ever worked in a large organization where the Diversity person actually made a difference versus satisfied a checkbox for lily-white management?

In the books, the law was made for baseball, in practice it’s been applied towards the major team sports leagues but not individual sports (boxing).

There is only one end-game in Kaepernick blackballing that makes sense: challenging the NFL’s anti-trust exemption.

How long does ignoring black subjects because the industry treats white as a default can you go without being racist?