It’s totally fucked. The death penalty has always been a tool for racial oppression in this country.
This comment basically sums up what’s wrong with Arkansas, and most other southern states. The United Nations and US courts are concerned with silly, things like human rights, and cruel and unusual punishment but the brain trust in Arkansas is like, “ya know what, I don’t feel bad for ‘em.” Case closed, folks. We can…
Also, even where there it is an open and shut case, no rich person gets the chair. Also, the death penalty is a lot more likely to be the sentence when the offender is black, or when the victim is white. It’s an extreme punishment that we only apply to poor and black offenders, which is fucked.
Yeah, I mean this is troubling because either he doesn’t see having lunch with his female colleagues as safe, or doing this has literally never come up. Both are highly fucking suspect.
Oh, I get it, you’re 21. Yeah, carry on then. So glad there weren’t comments threads when I was 21, it’s embarrassing enough to read my college term papers.
What specifically would have happened, though? People on the thread keep talking about how high stakes the were, but cant name any real things that might come from Charles marrying a non-aristocrat his age. The Windsors are figureheads, and not even ones with massive buy-in from the public (like the Thai royal…
Ok. My little brother is 19, and I basically see him as still a kid. If he had a kid or got married, it might turn out ok, but it’d be less than ideal. If some 30-something man or woman was sniffing around him, wanting to date, that would be super creepy. It would be legal, sure, but very questionable.
It’s sooooo true. I went to a really competitive all-girls high school that was focused on getting women on track for leadership positions. Two of my friends from high school had children at 25, and now, at 30, a lot of us are starting to, or thinking about it. My friends from the second-rate, kinda conservative uni…
Gosh, this is so interesting. I hadn’t considered that perspective, but it makes a lot of sense. From my own religious education, I can remember a quote from the Gospel, ‘when you even look at a woman with lust, you’ve already sinned,’ weighing a lot on my mind. Like, ‘oh shit, even my thoughts can be sins.’
I think that a lot of the people in the top levels of power in these cults aren’t true believers at all. Josh may have been a believer at first, but once he got married and got that lobbying job, he probably realized it was just the family business, and he can do whatever he wants. He might also have been a sociopath…
Plus, can we stop blaming mothers when they fail to protect their children from the violent/predatory men in their life? It’s true that some look the other way, which is uconscionable, but too often we blame mothers equally for *anything* that happens to their kids. Equally to whatever monster did this thing, we…
YES! The women’s button-up shirt thing confuses the shit out of me. I have average-to-small boobs, and button-up shirts don’t fit *me.* Who are these shirts designed for??!
You’re right, the operative word here is sad. And, Catholics have their own issues with corruption, abuse, genocide, etc. Every child has a right to a free, quality education, free of religious influence.
This place is a little nuts. Certainly not a normal Catholic school. Catholic parochial schools were founded in the 19th century as a way to resist Protestants indoctrinating Catholic kids in the public schools. If Protestants had any self control, there wouldn’t be an elementary school attached to every Catholic…
What’s wrong with a Catholic school giving a discount to practicing Catholics? The mission of any Catholic school is to provide a good education for the children of parishioners. It’s not our fault that white Protestants have dismantled public education so badly that now non-Catholics want in on parochial schools too.
Eh, not really. This place isn’t like any Catholic school I’ve ever heard of. Of course, it’s a big country, so ymmv.
Donald Trump has $20,000 in checking, if that.
Yo, I loved La La Land, but I think I like this comment more. People are losing their minds downthread b/c one person doesn’t want to spend 2 hours and $10.50 on this movie. How dare you besmirch the golden child of 2017, omg.
More than one person of color character in a musical taking place in contemporary LA? Madness, nonsense!