Your country had a serious racism problem before Trump, but now that he is president, it has now become legitimized and tolerated.

As a Canadian, I won’t be going to the U.S. until Trump is out of office. I resent the fact that innocent people are being denied entry based solely on their skin colour. My co-workers friend was denied entry because she was brown skinned - her religion, Sikh, is not even remotely close to muslim. I have a feeling…

Whenever the exchange rate has been good, Canadians are a significant customer base at our malls in Michigan (particularly in Detroit). This is going to hit us hard...and it should.

You forgot a step - they also need to have previously made sure to get an immigrant visa for no particular reason, even though it’s not at all applicable. Maybe a fishing license, too, because why not?

This is silly. All they’ll have to do is turn over their phones and passwords, explain their political views, show all of their social media posts and follows, answer questions about their religion, win two out of three games of speed chess, describe Joni Mitchell’s hometown, and sit in a windowless room for 11 hours…

Funny funny. Except in my experience the “boy scouts” in Canada - or the group formerly known as the boy scouts - are actually way more progressive than the Girl Guides. They’re now just called “Scouts Canada” because they’ve been completely co-ed for almost 20 years now, and this is one of their bylaws:

I was a Brownie in Toronto in the late 1990s and I just came here to say, THE UNIFORMS AREN’T BROWN WITH ORANGE ACCENTS ANYMORE!? Nothing is sacred anymore!

Good for the Girl Guides for taking a stand though. I’m not crossing the border for the same reasons. I’ll spend my money at local businesses instead and visit…

Girl Guides/Scouts, always a few steps ahead of the boy equivalency.

It goes without saying I’m not blaming the kids. What I’m saying is who taught this lesson which resulted in children thinking that the slaves up for auction MUST HAVE BEEN HAPPY.

I’m guessing the slave is smiling because it was drawn by a frikkin’ eight year old? Lots and lots of bad judgement to go around, here, but I don’t think any of it lands on the little kids who drew the actual posters.

I read half the article and had to take a breath. What the holy everlasting fuck. Who the hell thought this was a good idea and WHY IS THE SLAVE SMILING?! I hope I read about an apology next or maybe someone suspended from their job?

There’s so much ignorance about the very good resources avaliable that show teachers how to teach these things well, ignorance about the importance of history and the difficulty in teaching empathy.

My 4th grade teacher did something similar to this for Martin Luther King Day. Divided us based on eye color and then gave the blue eyed kids special treats and spoke terribly to the rest of us, made us sit in the back of the room, etc. Even kept us late so that my mother left me at school thinking I had gotten…

Ways to learn about slavery while maintaining the humanity of enslaved people:

This is nothing. A friend of mine told me her elementary school teacher divided up the class into Jews and Nazis and let the latter treat the former like shit so “everyone could learn about the Holocaust.” (Age appropriate materials weren’t doing the trick? I don’t know.)

You just want to say, “Really?”

The way history is taught to kids is such bullshit. I’m overseeing a student and they happen to be teaching them about the American revolution. It’s all patriots this and loyalists that, some people didn’t want to pay taxes to some other place overseas, etc. How about the fact that they would have had to give up the…

That’s such a lazy joke, if we can even call it that. I’m in camp If You’re Gonna Be Offensive, At Least Make A Joke That Isn’t Also More Than 100 Years Old. My camp also needs a better name.

I think he could’ve gotten away with is if he didn’t make that second tweet :/

How soon before he and JonTron are running Breitbart’s Gaming section?