In March of 1943, the United States was embroiled in a massive war with Imperial Japan. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Instead of using all his various superpowers to quickly bring an end to the war, Superman (government name Clark Kent) used his superpowers to stoke the fires of racial hatred. Take a gander at this: …
Racism
If America is so racist, why did Roseanne Barr get fired?
I continuously read on Facebook what a racist country America is. Racism in the United States is so bad, we don’t even have a black president anymore. Roseanne Barr is a racist? Considering all this, I was a little surprised when I learned ABC canceled the TV show Roseanne over a tweet the show’s namesake, Roseanne Barr, made about Valerie …
Allow me to mansplain the fallacy of ‘white male privilege’
For a while now I’ve heard about something called white male privilege. As a white male who has never felt especially privileged, I never quite understood what the term was trying to refer to. I think I first heard about it when one of my favorite science fiction authors at the time, John Scalzi, wrote about it …
What does social justice even mean?
The term social justice is one of those terms that seems to have as many meanings as people advocating for it. I feel as though if I asked ten people what social justice means, I’d get ten different answers. That’s not good. When I look up the term in the dictionary, I get a definition …
Trump’s first State of the Union
I only watched a couple of minutes of last night’s State of the Union speech by President Donald J. Trump. Everything I needed to know about our union’s current state I learned in the first minute. Our president is Donald J. Trump, failed casino proprietor and reality TV personality. One look at the podium told me …
How Trump apologists are spinning what he said
Just when I thought Donald Trump finally dug himself into a racist hole with his golden racist shovel that even he cannot get out of, his supporters have begun trying to give the man a hand by obfuscating and conflating what he said. For the record this is what Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the …