Nice transition to saying they were defending the slave trade—good obfuscation.

Acknowledging the Islamic slave trade is anti-Muslim? You dumb ass.

so while i disagree with most of what that person wrote toward the end, he/she is correct regarding grundy’s rather ahistorical portrayal of slavery. as people work more on uncovering what actually happened during the hundreds of years of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism in africa, they are beginning to find a…

I disagree. Was the comment in perfect English? No. Was it perfectly understandable? Yes. Not everyone who has good ideas is always going to be an expert grammarian, so if you want to participate in discussions with a wider range of people, you might want to stretch your brain a bit so a few misspellings and a missing…

She says only white people passed slavery on from parent for child and that only whites ever kidnapped people from other country to make them slave.

say what you will about white tears, but if you can tell me why this rhetoric is even remotely helpful or insightful, i’d love to hear it

I’ll wait 7 or 8 years before his book “Doing Nothing: How I Learned the Priceless Art of Relaxation After I Had to Spend 2 Years in Bed Due to a Mysterious Chronic Illness.”

“The serum absorbs the moisturizer.”

There is an interview with the author on another NYT page (not the Vice one) linked to below the article, and she says higher tips will be skimmed by owners or used to justify paying an even lower wage, so she doesn’t think that’ll be helpful. I’m at a loss.

Thisthisthisthisthis.

It would be a bandaid if you could be assured that those tips will stay in the workers’ hands. I have to imagine that tip garnishing is rampant among these unscrupulous owners.

Maybe what can be done, for starters, instead of leaving snarky comments towards people who point out that tipping is not the answer, which your own article makes clear because tips are skimmed, is to start paying more attention to where you get your nails done. Ask for transparency from your salon, and if you don’t…

Yeah but this is a temporary fix. Have you noticed how many people in the goods/services industries now ask for tips? It used to be wait staff, the pizza delivery man, and maybe your barber. Now it’s the coffee barista, the doorman, the cashier at the takeout restaurant, the cashier at the grocery store (which I go to…

Or you could go to a more expensive spot where you know the person is being paid fairly and is not slave labor and just tip normally? It would probably come out the same cost wise.

Write your congressional representatives, is my suggestion. But I agree - Articles like this do not emphasize that course of action. It bugs me when we only emphasize individual action we can take with individual employees. Is the point to make the customer feel good about herself walking out the door after leaving a…

How about posting worker-friendly salons?

You can also contact your elected representatives and demand that the government protect these workers. That isn’t a quick fix, but it is a necessary step.

I thought it was actually respectful of the waiter to ask. He didnt make assumptions based on appearance or his own opinion...he simply asked the person their preference. What is wrong with that?

Aw. TBH I like it when people don’t try to pre-judge a person’s gender, and don’t make a fuss about asking if it’s relevant. Of course, I wasn’t there, so I’m in no position to know whether he was being rude about it.

Oh, so this is one of those mommy-aimed pieces of media where it reels you in with some vaguely insulting or inaccurate statement like “Breast Milk is the Same as Formula” only to piggyback on the surprise (masquerading as emotion) of a REAL INSPIRATIONAL TRUTH: LOVE YOURSELF LIKE YOUR BABY DOES I MEANT ‘BREASTMILK…