Unacknowledged privilege is unacknowledged.

Free rent would help me focus, too.

Your education had a cost; this shouldn’t the same value as what it is “worth.” If it is, you may have bought yourself an expensive entry fee into the job market, not an education.

That scheme for compensating people for their irreplaceable time seems a title in favor of the prepossessors of capital and against the interests of the people doing the labor.

Blood libel’s an old game.

Drop me a line if you have a moment? Email is good, press@penandanvil.com.

Has anyone noted the similarity between this film’s source book, and Ballard’s “The Crystal World”?

“... people who really want a black female to succeed.”

And so... you’ve stepped forth to represent the folks who don’t really want a black female to succeed? Thank goodness that underrepresented constituency is finally being given a voice. Your courage is a virtue, sir.

Reflexive hostility doesn’t help the world get better, chum.

How much do you get paid for astroturfing? Asking for a friend.

How much do you get paid for astroturfing? Asking for a friend.

The channels of power that hand down a death sentence are not the same channels of power that deliver social penalties for antisocial behavior. I believe the word for a society in which the social penalties bestowed on bad members of society by their disapproving neighbors have been systematized into a formal “due…

I almost have into the thoughtless reflex to reply to you at length, with an aim of making a persuasive case that you should rethink your position and approach, since both contribute to the kind of society no one wants to live in. Almost! Instead I’ll just state a truth:

“You don’t need to be a Nazi to dislike SJWs...”

Has anyone here read “The Crystal World” by J. G. Ballard?

I can’t answer that question, because I reject the analogy in whose terms you frame the situation. This a vast difference of credibility between rumors picked up in a bar, and “rumors” — or rather, whispers, and second-hand reports, and first-hand reports from sources who can’t yet come forward — reported on in a…

I would say there’s a great chance that the signal boosting Jezebel did for this story helped to focus the attention of other journalists in the same direction, and helped to persuade editors that this was a story worth giving the green light to.

Excellent, clear-eyed, illuminating piece. Whoever pitched it, and whoever approved it, and all those who contributed to it — great job.

I see how you say “your” cause.