I say England because I’m thinking specifically of the British Museum in London and am not familiar enough with British law and history to apply my statements to Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or Northern Ireland.

That’s a fair point. Again, I was trying to explain why people in the US think we have a better record, and it’s because the examples that usually come up are English.

The flag company (Patriotic Flags) was added to the list because it is run by Kyle Rogers who was a leader in the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens. You may know the Council of Conservative Citizens as the group which first introduced the Charleston church shooter to white supremacy.

Leaving aside the simple racists (who only understand that “racist” is a bad thing to be and so apply it to anything they dislike), I think the reason some people think BLM is racist/a hate group is because they don’t understand that racism exists and cannot conceive of a relationship between races that isn’t a…

That’s absolutely true. I wasn’t trying to claim that the US was somehow exempt from this problem; just that England is the go-to example. And that has less to do with some innate English character and more to do with England having more colonies for longer and taking particularly well-known artifacts.

It may very well be the case that US treatment of Native and African Americans is on par with European colonization but talking specifically about museums stealing from other cultures and refusing to return artifacts, I think Europe still has the lead. At the very least, England repeatedly refusing to repatriate the…

Well for one thing the Met is owned by a private corporation and not associated with the government, unlike the British Museum. For another, the US didn’t have colonies on the scale of European nations so there was simply less opportunity to steal. The US also doesn’t suffer from well-publicized calls to repatriate…

I think there would be some symbolic power in dismantling the piece though. But maybe a better hypothetical strategy would be to buy the coronet, give it to one of the ex-empire countries, and donate the amount of the sale price to charity?

The thing is that they don’t think of the diseases we vaccinate for as being terribly dangerous. Since we’re well-vaccinated in the US generally, we essentially don’t have people dying from these diseases so anti-vaxxers aren’t comparing between ASD and death but between ASD and “normal”.

It’s not just you. I don’t know about hand-me-downs (although there’s no reason to give companies the benefit of the doubt) but gendering products is part of a divide-and-conquer marketing strategy.

“This is a problem in America” =/= “This is only a problem in America”

You will get called based on your voter registration. I know because I’ve been called in each of the counties I’ve lived in and while my voter registration is always up-to-date, I’ve never updated my driver’s license.

Based on my highly scientific personal experience, about 1/3 of people are actually really excited about the prospect of being a juror.

In fairness to your son, penises are ridiculous.

That’s obviously not a lady ghost. Where are the obvious breasts, lipstick, long eyelashes, and bow that designate things as the woman version of regular things?

It’s ridiculous to suggest that every group with a potential interest in the commencement speaker get involved in the selection process.

Why should it matter how well a protesting group’s views match the rest of the student body? In many cases the group protesting is protesting because they are an unheard minority on campus.

I’m not sure students are really in a position to suppress speakers. Sure, literally shouting over a speaker may prevent them from being heard at that venue, but students by and large don’t have the ability to prevent the speaker from going elsewhere. Colleges on the other hand are actually in a position to suppress…

I think it depends on the speaking engagement. If it’s just someone coming to give a talk, particularly if there’s an opportunity for discussion, I agree that trying to get the speaker canceled is probably a bit much. But if it’s a commencement speaker or a speaker otherwise in a capacity to represent the university…

I think the point of trigger warnings and safe spaces is to shift who is comfortable in those uncomfortable discussions. They’ve been co-opted by whiny privileged kids but the original intent was to recognize and respond to the fact that, like most places, classrooms are more comfortable for the white, the male, the…