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Dear White People Trailer Drops; White People Are Outraged

Hope you're ready for a good old-fashioned fit of unnecessary rage, because it's coming! See, Netflix is making this new show called Dear White People. They just released the trailer yesterday. The show is about a group of minorities attending a mostly white college and the racism and discrimination they face. And that's fine, right? Sounds like an OK topic for a TV show. Except, according to several white people who took great offense to the trailer, it's not fine at all. Believe it or not, there are many, many people who are angry about the title alone, which again, is Dear White People. It's not called Dear White People Who Are All 100% Terrible, it's not Dear White People, You Are the Worst. It's just called Dear White People. And that's enough to set plenty of people off. “Netflix had the gaul to launch a show called Dear White People,” one person tweeted. “I say F-CK NETFLIX.” “Dear White People,” another person wrote (see what they did there?), “If you waste 1 second watching this absurd, racist show, you're dumber than the #Netflix clowns producing it.” Many people are threatening to cancel their Netflix accounts because of this “racist” show, but the thing is — surprise! — it's actually not racist. If you watch the trailer, it's clearly about combating racism, which is obviously a subject that needs to be taught right now. Check out the reason for all the anger in the video below:

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Bill O’Reilly Calls Out Donald Trump for Obama Birth Certificate Claims

It’s come to this: Bill O’Reilly is the voice of reason. On that host’s Fox News talk show last night, the journalist called out Donald Trump for pushing the absurd notion that Barack Obama was born outside the United States. Referring to multiple announcements in Honolulu papers that documented Obama’s birth, O’Reilly quipped to his guest: “What is he, the Baby Jesus? There was a sophisticated conspiracy to smuggle this baby back into the country?” O’Reilly went on to doubt that Trump could possibly believe such nonsense, challenging the supposed Presidential candidate for just trying to be “provocative” and remain in the news. Watch the exchange here: Bill O’Reilly Challenges Donald Trump

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With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

“The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. ” Image credit: Wikipedia (copyright expired) – an excerpt. I am not suggesting that Dickens was prescient about climate change, in the fashion of the absurd claims made for Nostradamus. Nor do I think you should literally wear a hoodie (the modern equivalent of Grim Reaper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

“The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. ” Image credit: Wikipedia (copyright expired) – an excerpt. I am not suggesting that Dickens was prescient about climate change, in the fashion of the absurd claims made for Nostradamus. Nor do I think you should literally wear a hoodie (the modern equivalent of Grim Reaper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rachel Maddow: ‘I’m Not Here to Cheerlead for Anybody’. She’s a Drum Major Instead.

News organization or theater of the absurd? You decide. During an interview with her MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz on his radio show Nov. 30, broadcast from MSNBC studios in New York, Rachel Maddow said this about liberals in media — read more

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Diddy Supports The Arts

For the life of me, I cannot decide which smile is more enigmatic. (Real talk: does Diddy get his own private Louvre tour? Where is the absurd tourist crush?) The Best Links: via Forrest Hanson, Aggregator View

Squeaky Pig Pull Toy

Why the hell don't they make squeaky/cute?/utterly baffling porcine German “pull toys” like this any more? The human race is clearly in a pretty serious decline. Regardless, this smug toy-pig owner finding out that his absurd contraption is worth actual dollars is Antiques Roadshow at its finest. Masterful. ( Via .) The Best Links: Quite possibly the greatest segment in the history of Antiques Roadshow Man and His Pig, A Love Story by the Antiques Roadshow Extreme Craft: Pulled Pork Watch