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I can’t with him. Too many Trojan heroes are vegetables for our amusement, so it’s hard to not look at him with abject guilt and pity. He’s clearly mentally incompetent.

I believe he was actually warned during the debate for displaying the badge, so that might be real.

It’s really only a certain few that are suggesting that.

Your move, Rep Nadler.

I still can't get over the fact @Ginguy isn't following this election. He must really think Trump is fucked.

How does one legalize prostitution?

If only they hadn't rushed the census count. Lol.

Uh oh. That's not a good sign for the right.

That's in the constitution too?! Holy shit.

A thousand scripts behind? Someone's not working hard enough.....

I can think of a few reasons.

At first I was shocked she even popped up after all this time, then I realized it was an election year and that i wouldn't have been surprised if I had not forgotten she even existed.

That is true. It always bears repeating: why are people so afraid of feeling guilty about what actually happened to black people (and brown and asian) if racism has been eradicated?

Already heard my stupid cousin talking about it. That’s about all anyone needs to know about it.

Part of the problem is that even when we teach our kids that acceptance is important, we don't teach them about how those who are different from us relate to us. For instance, white kids don't really get taught how they have inherent advantages even though they might be taught about practices like redlining and racially motivated gerrymandering. A lot of it has to do with the fact that one needs to approach curriculum with the proper framework in place. It's easy for the Jones' and Rogans' of the world to attack education because there is an improper delineation between individual racist occurrences throughout history and the entitlement that fostered them.

Well, the "cope with it" part was unsaid here. Much of the bigotry people learn is from innocuous sources and tend to be something we simply suppress as either being stereotypical or of explicit racism in origin. The older I get the more I can appreciate the fact that it's not really enough to identify these subtle forms of racism; understanding the origins of this bigotry also exposes how it alters thinking in other ways. A fairly obvious example is the "miserly jew" racist stereotype which just about everyone knows is harmful and should be "suppressed." Some people are aware that it actually derives from Medieval Europe where victims of the diaspora were relegated to jobs in mercantile and money lending because they were outsiders wherever they happened to land. The problem is that this myth is often conflated with modern examples of prominent Jewish financiers, many of whom actually were outsiders in this country from an entirely different forced emigration from Europe. To be clear, this isn't about "overthinking" whether or not the core belief is offensive or abhorrent - that doesn't change regardless of the source. To use a parallel example - it's not a simple matter of dispelling the belief just because it's the product of ancient or unenlightened thought just as it isn't a simple matter of saying racism shouldn't exist because we liberated slaves 164 years ago. Some of the more famous Jewish financiers of the early 20th Century didn't emigrate into the United States with a strong banking background, they came from extreme poverty in Eastern Europe where they were geopolitically isolated. Understanding that, and understanding how they were a product of an evolved form of anti-semitism has an impact on perception: while Nazis nurtured a traditional form of bigotry to justify the Holocaust and, thus, passed it on to us, the vast majority of their victims weren't rich / well to do and were not hated simply because they were successful. Sorce brings up a good point on this: It isn't latent in that sense that it is hidden or stationary. It's latent in the sense that bigoted attitudes doesn't all come from the same source. So, it's not necessarily enough to say that "it's wrong, so I simply won't think that," you also have to acknowledge why specifically it's wrong and how it might not entirely be the product of racism. The successful Jewish people we see around us in the United States today aren't the direct product of medieval xenophobia, they're the product in part of the same post-industrial revolution upheaval that forces many other European groups into abject poverty. Their identity played a part in them being marginalized and can't be overstated, but ignoring the other factors has the unintended consequence of dehumanizing them or shaping them into beings with capabilities the rest don't have. ... Still, you're not wrong in saying it's all fucked up because it is. We're constantly bombarded by bigotry and continually confronting the awful truth that people we care about passed on harmful attitudes, sometimes unknowingly. I don't want to compare being a modern white man to being an alcoholic, but in a way it is. There will never be a time in my life where I can't think about what I'm saying because there will never be a time when I can't be aware of how what I say might evoke some form of bias that has taken millennia to develop and manifest. Bleak as that might sound, I don't see that as a negative, it's part of being human and it's how we become greater than the sum of our instincts. "Suppressing" racist attitudes doesn't help you become better; "coping" or acknowledging that you learned bigotry at some point and that you're actively trying to understand where it came from and why you learned it is how you not only stop the attitude but replace it with a more healthy one.

Not sure what you expected out of her, of all people.

Here's the official release video:

I hope it sends chills down the spine of Tucker Carlson, Fox News, Rudy Guiliani, that weird-ass bitch who was advising Trump about the election (and so on). Free speech isn't free of consequences, and if it hurts their families, even better.

I think that was their goal all along.

It's not a symptom. It's latent bigotry the just about every non-Jewish person has in some form. Kanye is expressing openly problematic behavior that others have learned to suppress (more so) or cope with (much less so). His inability to acknowledge that bigotry has nothing to do with his mental disease.

Kanye was always irresponsible for not taking care of a condition he's known about for years. Now, he's responsible for the damage his mental disease causes everyone else. Not that I think mental health issues should be burdened by those that suffer from it, they have an obligation to themselves and those around them to do everything they can to get the help they need and not forsake others for their own personal gain.

The key difference between Walker and West is that the former's mental disease is far less known and involves components of dementia that aren't predictable, making him dangerous for reasons that differ markedly from the latter and, at the same time, more difficult to eject when his antics pose a direct danger to others. To that extent, Walker is most definitely an unwanted asset that Republicans nonetheless need.