So shocking that racism would be accompanied by misogyny and ableism isn't it?

My grandmother is pretty devout and conservative but luckily she's Catholic and not evangelical. Catholics like to get their drink on!

You'll have use baby's pressing on your bladder excuse to make frequent trips to the bathroom to hide. Stow a book or a kindle in your purse.

Sometimes my racist right wing Christian fundy uncle can't go to holiday get togethers because he has to work. I'm really hoping he won't be at thanksgiving. Just last month he was talking about how the left has unfairly maligned George Zimmerman. Sigh.

No but that doesn't change the fact that pushing a store clerk is not an offense worthy of death. It's not relevant. If he had murdered the clerk, you might have a point.

The issue isn't hearts and minds. The issue is that there's a disconnect between what the people want and what the government does. Legislators know that the path of least resistance is too what their wealthy individual and big corporate donors want them to do. Because even though we have the numbers, we don't use…

No. Funnily enough, the store didn't call the police. They called my parents. That's white privilege for you.

Teenagers shoplift. I shoplifted as a teen but I'm white so the one time I was caught, it was assumed I was a good kid who made a mistake. But when a black teen does it, he deserves the death penalty apparently.

It's a common tactic for right wingers to sock as women or POC on social media because they think "SJWs" won't call someone out for saying stupid shit unless they're a white cishet man. It's no surprise that they project and assume others are doing the same.

There's been a trend on the left of being too gentle to commit any kind of civil disobedience. Although I can see the value of peaceful protesting, civil disobedience is an important tool as well. Our reluctance to embrace it has only helped the right's narrative that any property damage that occurs in protests…

I'm actually torn on what I think about the property destruction. On the one hand, it makes the peaceful protestors look bad and it's not the local small business owners that are the problem.

I shoplifted and smoked pot when I was a teenager and I was still considered a good kid. Nobody has ever used the word thug to describe me. Obviously I'm white.

Perfect excuse for moving to Canada!

Remember, you can dismiss that asshole.

From the way the governor was speaking in the days leading up to this, it seem like it was a foregone conclusion that Wilson wouldn't be indicted.

His statement that Wilson "followed training and the law" is really creepy. It's like he's admitting that they train police to shoot unarmed black people.

With Charles Manson and Darren Wilson off the market, what hope does a single gal have to meet Mr. Right?!! FOREVER ALONE.

It did seem to spring up out of nowhere didn't it?

That doesn't surprise me at all.

I am so in. I never thought I'd leave atheism behind and join a religion, but it's worth it.