He’s not wrong biologically speaking, which is why 2nd cousins can legally marry in all 50 states. At that level, problematic recessive traits getting excessively reinforced typically only become a problem over several generations in a small population (a very small town, or perhaps early-modern European royalty)…

We’re learning that only Trump can campaign that way. No one else can pull it off.

In fairness, so did Oz.

So how long until the cousin he himself “smashed” comes out of the woodwork?

Because of the precedent it sets: now that CloudFlare has shown it is willing to block sites that they don’t like, they’ll be under far more pressure to apply this action to cases that are less clear cut. I think they made the right call here (I mean, seriously folks, why did it take this long), but I sorta understand…

Yes this. Minstrel shows were the predominant form of touring entertainment from the mid 19th century up until the 1910s, when things shifted towards vaudeville which was definitely heavily influenced by minstrelsy and infused with its ideas (in combo with music hall and Yiddish theater). Imagine multiple generations…

I’m not defending this particular book (which I haven’t read, but that minstrel pose looks pretty bad) but the idea of an advanced species taking a pre-sapient animal and experimenting on it until it becomes fully sentient is a common sf trope. David Brin’s Uplift series is based around the concept.  We’re probably…

How many Americans do you think are even remotely familiar with minstrel show art? I would guess a tiny percentage. I think we are being wildly generous in assuming the vast majority of Americans have enough education in this area of history to identify these D&D characters as racist caricatures.

My question is more basic: Is the writer of that crap just a straight-up “slavery gave black people culture” racist? Because just the idea that a species could become “sapient” via enslavement seems immediately suspect. In fact, how could it be “enslavement” if they weren’t already beings who were conscious and aware?

I don’t know how this got through any person with any familiarity with minstrel shows or racism against black people in America.

This one is really rough. I don’t know how this got through any person with any familiarity with minstrel shows or racism against black people in America.

I imagine there will be a public statement at some point once they’ve gotten their heads around a plan of action to both remedy THIS instance and further steps to…

You seem to be missing the entire problem.

They love to say “The best remedy to bad free speech is more free speech”. They just fail to recognize that the First Amendment encompasses the Freedom of Association.

About time someone made an actually insane looking car. Anyone who poopoos the design is dead inside and needs to go have fun for once in their life. 

Holy shit. Ariel is building the car that all 7 year olds inside of us has always wanted.

I hope they towed it that way on purpose.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 

Hope the cops are in their forms, too, figuring out the next time/location.

That’s why I only race with Hector around because if he’s too slow to make it away with the prize cash, he will make a good decoy while I make my exit.

You know they are in their forums complaining about how they are the victims here. So much caps lock.