Exactly. I don’t care what the employer’s excuse his—as long as he continues to do business with the butcher, he is aiding and abetting a racist, which means he ain’t shit either.

I’m not arguing that the germ of racism comes from antiquity and was a natural progression from there. I’m actually talking about the fact that Europeans considered themselves the heirs of Greco-Roman culture, and so the perceived superiority of Greeks/Romans over other peoples of their time was further proof for…

Every option short of defending their fucking employee.

Counseling isn’t going to restore his trust in his employer. Offering it is a bullshit copout, and his boss knows that. He just doesn’t give a fuck.

Did they hand you a noose and tell you they’d help you tighten it?

Continuing to do business with a partner who violated your employees’ sense of safety and well-being is a betrayal. The employer is basically saying, “I’ll do what I can to avoid a lawsuit, but I don’t actually give a shit and I also don’t have any principles.”

Eh, I think you’re slightly misinterpreting my comment (I meant “literal monsters” in the sense that the creatures he described can only be referred to as monsters), but I do appreciate your clarification and input. I however agree with MakeSomaliaGreatAgain that the roots of scientific racism, specifically of the…

It wasn’t as if he had never seen or interacted with Africans before. He spent time in North Africa. How he could visit the continent and do business with the people and still believe there were literal monsters just beyond the boundaries of his travels is crazy to me.

I was just reading about his death. There are some conflicting theories, but most of them seem to agree that he died trying to save his friends, so I give him points for that.

Never tried it!

Wikipedia tells me he was a pretty well-traveled man. You’d think he’d be skeptical of claims that there were human beings with faces in their chests lol.

“If a black person votes, roll a D20. If 1-19, vote democrat.”

Pliny the Elder sounds like a dumbass.

Wonder if he realizes how closely that horseshit he spews resembles the shit Nazis said about the Jews. Probably not.

Yeah, and the Confederate flag isn’t just a “differing political view.” I’m getting fucking tired of people describing beliefs that trivialize others’ humanity or strip them of civil rights as a mere difference of opinion. Fuck that.

“our country was founded on those principles.”

That is such a huge insult to Shatner lol

Yes, that too. Thank you.

It’s a thin line. Imho Jewish people have every right to be offended by it. It’s obvious to me that it’s meant to be a reference to the very real financial savvy of many Jewish businesspeople, but it’s hard not to see how it also brings up the image of the miserly, deceptive, hook-nosed Shylock hoarding coin. I don’t…

Beautiful:)