A little intolerance might help

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Calling All White People, Part 63 TODAY’S EPISODE: How about we try a little less compassion? I saw a post online recently asking: Would you break up with a potentially very promising partner if you found out they were racist? Hell, yes. I mean, I’d probably start with telling them how screwed-up their heinous beliefs …

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An anti-racist midlife crisis

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Last year, when I met a man almost 11 years younger than me—whom I fell in love with—I took to joking that our relationship was my “midlife crisis.” After all, it fit the stereotype of a divorced middle-aged woman—just one of those “cougars.” I would later realize that he was definitely not my midlife crisis. …

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