I don't watch #RHOBH, not since Queen LV left, but I follow on Twitter to get the highlights. From what I understand, Kyle has been given a second chance, an opportunity to redeem herself since her last conversation with Lisa Vanderpump. It's a moral test she failed last time.
This is the second time she is put in the position of choosing between someone she has known for years and years and since long before the show and Lisa Rinna who she knows is a liar and a vindictive monstrosity who targeted one of her sisters already. This is a moral test.
There is no one conversant with Lisa Rinna who is unaware that she is a liar. She's been caught in lies before, always in pursuit of winnowing someone out. She's like a reverse sheep dog, snarling, biting, and driving the sheep, but out of the herd instead of into it
In fact, if you observe her behavior over the years, she behaves like an abuser, trying to isolate people from their long-term friends and family. She seems fixated on Kyle and isolating her from her longest friends and her family.
And Kyle goes along with it, failing her sisters and her friends, though I don't know if she does it because she's weak and easily bullied by Rinna or because she puts furtherance of the show and its drama ahead of her friends and family. In either case, she's a moral failure.
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Here's a simple fact. None of the people hyperventilating about Harry & Meghan gave a fig about the Queen. If they did, they would not have spent 2 weeks libeling and slandering her grandson and his wife. They would have talked about all the history she has seen, her WW2 work
But instead they have parsed even the microgestures on their faces for evidence for their preferred narrative. Harry & Meghan have said nothing other than Harry's whatever I wear is fine note. The entire narrative has been spun out of fevered imagination and hate.
The level of hate toward a grandson and daughter-in-law she claimed to love does not show any respect for the Queen. It shows profound disrespect. But then, none of this is about the Queen, it's about the racist parochialism of the British media.
If your profile says you were raised with zero prejudice or bigotry, I know you do not take the work of fighting racism seriously. You cannot grow up in a society structured around white supreacy and not be affected. You're saying you can swim in a pool and not get wet.
Instead of worrying about stray thoughts and reactions that ping in our brains, how about we work on not letting those thought affect our words and actions. How about we admit we are going to embarrass ourselves with something racist a few times in our lives.
Then we can work on being less defensive when we are called out. We can work on listening more.
We can work on simply saying sorry when we hurt someone instead of insisting they should not feel hurt. Ouch!
White women today have really made it tough today. If they're not hating Meghan Markle, they're claiming they're an ally while tromping all over Black women's opinions.
I thought it might be useful to take it out of the fraught world of race and into something more mundane.
BW1: Ouch, you stepped on my toe.
WW1: It could not have hurt much.
BW1: Well, it did hurt.
WW1: You're just over-sensitive or your shoes are too tight. I just barely brushed you.
WW2: The only reason she is on this bus is help you people.
BW1: She's not helping my foot
WW1: I didn't mean to hurt you.
BW1: I didn't say you did, but when you step on someone's foot, you say sorry.
WW2 She would not even be here if her heart weren't in the right place.
Remember Standing Rock & Dakota Access Pipeline? Enbridge Line 3 in Minnesota is as damaging and White Earth, Red Lake, and Leech Lake tribes have been protesting its construction. But there are not daily reports of celebrity sightings and a camp of white people in solidarity.
It's almost as though the progressive left's activism at Standing Rock was not about the environmental damage or treaty rights but about creating a wedge political issue to suppress votes.
I have to admit, though, that AOC has gone to protest Line 3. So props for consistency for her.
Someone tweeted something about one of those ostentatiously religious politicians who is essentially corrupt and this phrase from the sermons of my youth popped up, "Faith, not works."
and I had an aha! moment
I don't know if other Protestant churches are as focused on "Faith, not works" as the Baptists are, but if you're going to a Baptist church, you're sure to hear it fairly often. Basically, it means you can't good deed yourself into salvation.
Yes, I'm still an atheist.
Now the head deacon of our church was a mean asshole with a choleric temperament. He chiseled on people's wages, didn't give out Halloween candy because it's a demonic holiday, etc. But he was the head deacon! The leader of the church in lieu of the pastor.
We need to talk about Mississippi. A lot of people are blaming the wrong people for the Jackson water crisis. It's not because the city is poorly run. It's because there is no more Jim Crow state in the nation. So even though MS has a greater percentage of Black people than any
other state and the greatest number of Black elected local and county officials in the country, there has not been one single Black person elected to statewide office.
The Mississippi Constitution was designed to exclude Black people.
Mississippi can thank these guys for their poor government. They got together in 1890 to rewrite the state Constitution to make sure no Black people enjoyed their rights as citizens.