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skepticscott

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18. Thank you, Charles

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 12:47 PM

Jun 2015

Yes, people spend way, WAY too much time bloviating over this sort of story, just because they're supposed to, just because it's the Internet buzz du jour, just because it's gone "viral". But I look at all the time wasted commenting on this thing, and commenting on comments, etc., and I think about all of the worthy causes that really need people's time, but can't get it, and I don't wonder why this country is so fucked.

And now I've done it too...there's the irony.

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CHARLES PIERCE: Things I Choose Not to Care About: Rachel Dolezal Edition [View all] kpete Jun 2015 OP

"Another exhausting exercise in sociological pilates." BeyondGeography Jun 2015 #1

Charlie can add me to the list of people who Greybnk48 Jun 2015 #2

+1 daleanime Jun 2015 #17

Exactly. Duppers Jun 2015 #21

Exactly! hunter Jun 2015 #3

Totally. More of the media examining its own fecal pellets. nt bemildred Jun 2015 #4

^^ LOL !! Perfect description ! ^^ nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2015 #15

one more here Romeo.lima333 Jun 2015 #5

"Freaky in a carnival midway sort of way" cwydro Jun 2015 #6

That's pretty much my take on things. Seems like the populace is always being shown > BlueJazz Jun 2015 #7

Charles Pierce nails it again. summerschild Jun 2015 #8

Sooooo Glad he wrote this - these are my sentiments exactly. dirtydickcheney Jun 2015 #9

K & R. n/t FSogol Jun 2015 #10

Couldn't agree more! ecstatic Jun 2015 #11

And yet, there he is writing about it. aikoaiko Jun 2015 #12

He's not writing about it he is writing about us. zeemike Jun 2015 #19

Sociological pilates. romanic Jun 2015 #13

It's keeping the racist trolls on DU busy RandiFan1290 Jun 2015 #14

I hate when this sort of gossip takes on the sanctimonious mask of social import RufusTFirefly Jun 2015 #16

Thank you, Charles skepticscott Jun 2015 #18

Ditto. drm604 Jun 2015 #20

Thanks for posting this, Kpete. Duppers Jun 2015 #22

Wow, that is one of the most appallingly stupid and childish things I've ever read. NuclearDem Jun 2015 #23

as I posted a couple weeks ago, the sjw waste enormous amounts of time and energy Doctor_J Jun 2015 #24