Uh... I might be wrong about this, but Emperor Hirohito was absolutely in charge of Japan during WW2. I don’t think he was a constitutional monarch until General MacArthur had the Japanese sign a new constitution during his 7 year administration over the country. Part of General MacArthur’s strategy was to keep the…

But how can we remember history without big ol’ statues of people, and name branding all over roads, schools, and other government infrastructure? I mean, the leader of Germany during WW2 doesn’t have his name branded anywhere, and really, does anybody know who that guy was?

Duke University was actually named after the act of pooping.

I live in Richmond, Virginia.  One of the schools over in Mechanicsville (yes, it is literally named for having a ton of mechanics) is called Lee-Davis High School.  Good luck rebranding a two-fer.

If an organization releases a statement that says “Hey, could you not call them concentration camps, because we’d sort of like to have a monopoly on that term”, then that itself is involvement, isn’t it?

It is appalling, really, that they’d come out in favor of protecting their brand. Hell, what is it going to take to…

I’m shocked and surprised by the sheer amount of Jewish organizations whose primary concern right now seems to be making sure the Holocaust stays “their thing”. The implicit message seems to be “Hey, can we NOT call these concentration camps, because doing so really undermines the idea that we had it worse than…

Can we stop acting surprised that people like this have horrible values?

I mean, have you ever seen a what they do to a wang during one of these surgeries?  Getting kicked in the nuts is hard enough, but that process looks downright horrific.

You’re misrepresenting the facts. Women’s soccer might have a better profit margin, but the gross revenue isn’t even remotely close. Like, at all.

I find that a really interesting note re: contemporary Christianity. How do they square those two diametrically opposed aspects of the Bible into one coherent belief system?

Whether it is time or not isn’t entirely relevant, if you’re talking about someone that literally thinks they have an objective moral guide. I might be incorrect about this, but I don’t think a lot of religious people preface their beliefs with “Meh, maybe my religion is right, and maybe it is wrong, but...”

You shouldn’t be allowed to call yourself a “christian”, when you can’t be bothered with the simplest human charity written in Christ’s scriptures.

really, in terms of the supposed response to Iran, I see two options:

Option 1) Trump’s administration was straight up lunatic enough to bomb another country and kill people because a piece of equipment was shot out of the sky.

You’re right - it’s almost as if we needed all that other forward motion before broaching what is a much larger, more sensitive and more difficult conversation! We finally, now, have a chance to move the conversation forward on providing a real, tangible benefit to the people who we screwed out of everything for 250…

“after 154 years and almost no progress” are words that you just typed, though. Were you being cheeky, or are you really this dumb?

i don’t think i’m going to have much success passing reparations legislation in the comments of splinter, but thanks for dreaming so highly for me.

How much of a twit you are for making completely irrelevant points that are no closer now to making reparations a reality than they have been for the past 154 years. 

Yep, it is absolutely irrelevant. I will once again reiterate that nobody that feels they don’t owe reparations is going to be compelled by that idea.

I didn’t miss anything. You haven’t argued anything substantial. You misinterpreted a hyperbole about Romans, you brought up irrelevant familial financial legacy, and you posted a link to an article. You’re calling me foolish, while you seem to be basing your position on the infantile fallacy that the world is fair…

What Black Americans want is to get paid for what we did. We built this country for next to nothing. We had our inventions, arts, and ideas stolen by white people who montiezed them. It’s not unfair or dumb to want help getting out of the hole that white Americans put us in while stealing the wealth from our…