In fairness, I'm pretty sure Andrew Johnson said something along the same lines while urinating over the twelfth and fourteenth amendments.

Yeah, his businesses going down compacted production scale for most of the smaller businesses who support the casinos, which drove costs up across the board and dropped profits accordingly.

And then immediately followed that with, 'People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?'

No, but we did have sex, so . . . all's well that ends well!

Will you be wanting the undercoat, sir? Ooops, it looks like I've already applied that. Actually, you're getting a triple undercoat. You're welcome.

In fairness, they've just payed a shit-ton of money for it. I mean, I'm half Indian, and if I were in that situation those genes would have kicked in and I would freak out on the principle of the matter. For the same reason why I buy defective stuff at outlet malls, then return it under the warranty and get a…

Yeah, apparently the cheapest tickets were for $400. Which I would never spend on a music festival, but that is within the range that I would be willing to save up for if I really wanted to do something. I'm just a nerd, so that something would probably be an academic conference or book fair.

Yes, but it would entail everybody's money going to Martin Shkreli.

Nothing damning, which is why I don't hold it against her show. It's in that weird nether area where it's sketchy enough to warrant noting without really being enough to be the basis of any decision. To be honest, if I had to hazard a guess at what was going on, her husband didn't really have an issue with…

Yeah, this was in Skibbereen of all places. In my defense, it was honestly a slip of the tongue. Also, I'm a Marylander, and he said I had a southern accent. So you could say he got me back.

I think a lot of people were involved in racism in a lot of ways, but they certainly didn't shy away from it.

Eh. I'm certainly not of the opinion that racism is in the past, but I do think that modern racism is much different than what it used to be. Part of the problem is that a lot of people don't recognize that modern racism is still racism, since it doesn't look like what they read about in their history books.

Oh, fair enough.

Yeah, I see where you're coming from. To be honest, I'm pretty good at divorcing my racial sensitivities from my enjoyment of old art. I mean, I'm able to enjoy Tintin and Tolkien while still fully recognizing the origins of some of the themes in both those works. For me, it casts some light on the mentalities of…

That too. I don't know, the Japanese were sort of like the 'Europeans' of Asia historically speaking, so it kinda makes sense. You know, other than the actual Europeans. Goes to show the emptiness of the ideology, though. It's more about the concept of supremacy than it is about whiteness itself. You'll notice…

Damn. Beat me to it by five minutes.

Well, since the character is the protagonist, who's otherwise positively portrayed . . .

I mean, it's a fair point, though. Coulter is a perfect example of how exposure can boost the far-right as opposed to tear them down. Not to say that it's unavoidable; there have been plenty of examples that have gone the other way, too.

No, but he'd permit a James Bond with a waifu female love interest.

No, but I think it's important to point out that eurocentric racism is a relatively modern phenomenon. That helps to delegitimize it in the face of the people who think that Europe has contributed the most to create the modern world.