Yes, I think we can acknowledge that indentured servitude was brutal and terrible without equating it with race-based chattel slavery. Three big differences:

Uh, the people who were here first. Don't forget them.

Omg. She wanted to jump the fucking broom? Just.. no.

As a historian and an Irishman, I thoroughly approve of this. I mean, yes, there are some famously awful things that the Irish people have gone through over the years (the aforementioned research from the article, Oliver Cromwell, the Irish Famine, etc.), but the important thing to remember is that the Irish were…

I think it's a way for many Irish in the Americas to dispose of their collaborative efforts with the racist system. The same could be said for Italians as well.

lol wut. The Irish had it bad off, to be sure, but they did not experience anything even remotely like systemic slavery. Arguments for such an idea are borne of pure white supremacist martyrdom complexes.

You quote Liam Hogan in the piece, and he’s done a fantastic job debunking every specific claim made by these idiots, in a five-part series on Medium. I highly recommend you check it out!

This month can end. What the hell? That’s enough loss for one month, surely.

The reason why “Black Lives Matter” is a meaningful mantra is the fact that so many people clearly believe the opposite. No one is saying “Black Lives Matter More Than ...,” they’re saying “Black Lives Matter The Same As Every One Else.”

And by “apology culture” she means minorities refusing to kept our mouths shut when white people want to have a good laugh at our expense. Fey and all these other comedians lamenting this nebulous “pc” culture can get fucked.

What.....unlike all the rich people in the other parts of the world??? Whilst I abhor human rights violations they seem to only matter to people when the perpetrator isn’t a member of NATO.

She also shared this photo with the dictators daughter, who acquired her wealth while the rest of the country lives on $2 a day. I usually really like Nicki, but this is a major bummer.

It confuses me when people say, “God didn’t stop it because they took God out of schools.”

I don’t know, what color skin do you have?

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from this huffpost (ugh I know) article about 3 UN workers coming to america to assess gender inequality:

I am probably one of the most aggressive pro-­lifers terrorists out there

Reminds me of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns....

It’s very easy for people to appear to make a statement of solidarity when it costs them little to nothing (it’s very easy to refuse to go to Chick Fil A when you have alternatives) or when it’s something close to them and they feel affected (oh my, a devout religious person might actually hold devoutly religious…