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We’ve had this conversation on here before sorta: people don’t think they can be sexists/misogynists because they don’t rape/beat women; people don’t think they’re classist because they don’t spit on their maids; people ain’t racist because they’ve never attended a cross-burning. Ta-Nehisi Coates goes to town on the idea that racism is a lingering problem Read More

Even though we usually agree with Keith Olbermann when he drops these bombs, they tend toward the long-winded/preachy. (10 minutes? Gotdamn.)

Oh, it’s about to get irreverent up in here. Hillary Clinton, eager to boost her ‘red phone’ credentials, has been citing a 1996 trip to the Balkans as part of her foreign policy experience. Also on that trip? Sheryl Crow and Walter Oakes Sinbad. Sinbad, a Barack Obama supporter, said to Mary Ann Akers of Read More

  An interesting question posed by On The Media: how do you satirize Obama and Clinton without veering into territory that might be labeled a racist or misogynist? They talked to editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson about reactions to his caricatures and professor Elaine Miller about the way Geraldine Ferraro was depicted in editorial cartoons in Read More

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