He also wrote: “The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.”

“We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

I never thought I’d live to see the day where the gay community—a group that has incurred insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior—would be compared to the KKK—a hate group that has administered insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior.

The problem is, any country might be “critical” depending on circumstances. Hungary is an EU country that’s teetering on the brink of dictatorship. I’d say that particular ambassadorship needs real qualifications and experience.

Remember, the UK is no longer on the continent.

At least she has one parent with a moral compass.

“She ought to pay for that, she ought to pay for that, because she has no right to touch anybody.”

Agreed. Though I wish there were certain things they didn’t have to learn.

Watched Black Panther with my sons (9 and 11), who loved it. Excellent world-building, well-directed action, believable motivations, and imperfect and complex characters, both good and bad. Definitely way above the Marvel average. But my sons’ virtually complete ignorance of first-hand racism (not having grown up in…

I am Legend’s changed ending makes complete nonsense not only of the rest of the film but of its very title.

As noted political scientist Billy Bragg once said, “To me, being a socialist means that rich people should pay more taxes.” That’s about all the nuance the average US voter can handle.

I’m sure plenty people lost money when slave-auction houses went out of business. Investors in a in a fundamentally immoral system get no sympathy from me.

Damn you! Beat me to it!

Like tears in the rain.

Good point. Can you really be called a racist when you hate 99.9999% of the population of the world, including the vast majority of your own race?

So his fossilized remains can provide evidence for creationists? No thanks!

He really hated the Germans too--pre-Nazi era.

...Monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguley moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea…

The only reason to remake this would be to restore the book’s ending. Changing that was the only real problem with the previous adaptation.

“Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.”