I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
Gene WeingartenOne thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
Gene WeingartenInternational politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
Gene WeingartenWe want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
Gene Weingarten