
Episode 122: Enjoy Your Death Trap, Ladies!
Plus: When they send you to a camp full of swastikas, it’s usually a bad sign…
Katie gets deceived by the Daily Kos, a leftist coffee shop suffers an expected fate, and Jesse explains how Buddhists ruined summer camp for everyone.
Links:
Rebekah’s sneakily-worded post on the Daily Kos:
Mina’s World shuts down:
Libs of TikTok weighs in on the Mina’s Cafe situation:
Doc Marie’s website (WARNING: pointless)
https://docmaries.com/
Hidden Villa:
https://www.hiddenvilla.org/about-us/
Hidden Villa’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hiddenvilla
Hidden Villa’s swastika statement:
https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/letter-to-the-community-6-8-22-1654978228.pdf
How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591
Here, have some Jewish swastikas:
https://www.tod.org.il/en/blog-holocaust-day
The swastikas that started it all (note left-facing orientation):
The Palo Alto Online article explaining the situation:
Los Altos Town Crier article:
“What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation”:
Facebook comment highlights:
The Tweet that broke the news to Twitter:


Noah Smith weighs in:


Wes Yang chimes in:


Ryan Grim’s take:



The title:
Image: Women dance together at WildRose, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. WildRose, which opened in 1984, is the only remaining lesbian bar in Seattle. (Genna Martin, seattlepi.com) (Photo by GENNA MARTIN/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)"
Episode 122: Enjoy Your Death Trap, Ladies!
The lesson for anyone who wants to start a community-oriented small business appears to be to avoid any mention of equity or social justice so as not to attract the lunatics. Just pretend to be an abusive boss looking for wageslave employees and then quietly pay them 2x the going rate.
I'm going to be THAT person on the thread, but yes, it is indeed inappropriate (if not illegal) to say something like, "we're hiring Black queers at our coffee shop" UNLESS you can make the case that it is relevant to their job. There are decades of case law that get very specific about what would qualify. https://bit.ly/3PaZQCU
And all the privilege/oppression jargon aside, you cannot discriminate on a protected class regardless who it benefits. This was literally the ENTIRE PLOT OF ON THE BASIS OF SEX.