So if you are oppressed but oppressing others, it’s ok? Murdering someone is fine if you are a member of an oppressed group, but jerking off in front of someone as a white dude isn’t?

I find a disconnect in discussions and about how criminal justice reform is talked about in some social justice circles. People will have a ton of empathy for certain groups of people they are sympathetic to but not apply that empathy to others. People will talk about restorative justice for kids involved in gang…

Given how little training police get in some matters, there are way better ways for them to spend two hours. Train them on how to de-escalate situations. Train them on non-lethal ways to respond to people resisting arrest. Train them on unconscious bias. Train them on systemic racism. Train them on how to deal with…

Also there is the possibility that the people angry enough to get the person fired don’t represent how the majority of said person’s potential audience actually feels. They can become martyrs in a weird way.

Why are you lumping Aziz in with Lauer and CK? Lauer was a serial sexual harasser and predator. CK jerked off in front of women. Aziz took a little too long to realize that his date didn’t want to fuck him, and apologized to her when she told him she didn’t feel good about what happened.

Maybe it’s a little like a male feminist - you don’t see yourself as part of the group targeted for criticism, and agree with what the other group is trying to accomplish. there does seem to be some weird internalized racism/deflection going on as well though - like if I kowtow to the white people, I’ll escape the…

Many of the women of color running in the California primaries were hardcore Trumpists. I don’t get the whole super conservative immigrants/child of immigrants thing. Fiscally, maybe, but how can you support super racist immigration laws targeting people like your family? 

This is why I find the “power plus privilege” argument in critical race theory that asserts that POC can’t be POS racists so troubling, and the whole “Trust women! Vote for women!” mantra troubling. Being a member of an oppressed minority doesn’t make you a great person. It makes you someone deserving of compassion…

I grew up near him and we are the same age, so for me the insights into the gutterpunks I used to see at the Pacific Garden Mall kept me going. I don’t mean to bag on him - I haven’t read or listened to anything else he’s done, so maybe he landed on a form of Buddhism that makes sense. I know some people that have had…

I think it is hilarious that you are loudly proclaiming how Buddhist you are while talking shit about anyone who doesn’t practice religion like you.

So that’s, like, your opinion man. Saying Tibetan Buddhism isn’t Buddhist is like saying Bulgarian Orthodox isn’t Christian. It’s Buddhism. It may not be your cup of Buddhism, but it is Buddhism.

Have you read Andrea Winn’s “Project Sunshine?” She’s been documenting/providing resources for victims of abuse in the shambhala buddhist community.

Thank you for writing this, well-researched and well-thought out article. I have been hearing these allegations for a while and have been frustrated by the opacity of them.

I don’t care. Trump’s administration is actively racist, doing actively racist things, pushing an actively racist ideology. Whether or not he uses the N word really doesn’t matter to me. It’s like guessing whether a notorious woman-beating pimp ever called a woman a c***t. We are putting way to much emphasis on that…

I was shocked, shocked I tell you that the fox I hired to watch the henhouse ended up eating half of them.

I didn’t mean to imply that Ingrahm wasn’t a horrible racist playing on people’s worst instincts, or that reacting to changing demographics with xenophobia and racism was a natural or inevitible reaction. I do think that the changes that have happened in some communities in this country have been pretty dramatic, and…

I get that changing demographics take adjustment, and it isn’t all wine and roses. But who the fuck am I, whose ancestors were poor foreigners who didn’t speak english and weren’t protestants and came here because of how poor/backwards/at war their home countries were 120 years ago, to tell a syrian or somalian or…

I dunno. Having the demographics of your community change drastically in the space of a few decades is jarring for anyone. It’s jarring to have a neighborhood that was predominantly one ethnicity/culture all of a sudden be predominantly of another ethnicity/culture, especially if said ethnicity/culture speaks a…

I mean, it’s feeding into the false narrative that the only real racism is racism against whites, so that’s something.

Is that the measure? If I make a comment on twitter about how we should cancel black people, or that black people should live underground like trolls, does that cause material harm to black people, really? And is “causing material harm” our standard? Like so long as we aren’t inciting racist violence against people…