What is unfair to the others? I’m sure it sucked cheering swimmers not named Phelps or runners not named Bolt in 2008, too.

Yep, how dare the fans who made him rich get frustrated when he continually doesn’t do a job he promised.

I mean, he could at least stop promising us that it’s going to happen.

He is kinda employed by us, his readers, who buy his books. And people complain rightfully when promises are made and broken followed by endless delays for a delay-prone writer.

So...experimenting on lab animals is just as inhumane as experimenting on Black women? Seems like you should be the one to fuck off.

I’m glad it’s being moved. He was a fucking sociopath who sacrificed women and babies for his own advancement. Fuck all these comments who talk of “greater good” and stupid dr who jokes

You cannot be as stupid as this comment makes you seem. You cannot, because if you were, you wouldn’t have the capacity for breathing.

That was my first thought, too: this is like honouring Mengele with a statue in a public park. Sooooo: Why just move the statue, and to the cemetary where Dr Sims is buried, at that? Why not break the damn thing into tiny pieces and grind them to dust?

Or it was because people at the time believed that black people didn’t experience pain in the same way that white people did. This probably saved Dr. Sims a lot of money: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/4296

Anesthesia was a thing during the time that Sims performed his experiments but he didn’t use it on slave women because racist beliefs at the time held that black people (and black women in particular) didn’t ‘feel pain’ in the same way that white people did. So he could have caused less damage than he did, but he was…

A Slave cannot consent.

Wow you sure are an idiot. As a descendant of slave ancestors and as the great granddaughter of a woman who was personally victimized by a well regarded doctor who used the bodies of poc to further his research on diseases....fuck you and your white privilege horse you rode in on

When the sacrifices are based on the premise that one race is less human than another, no it is not the greater good.

Try being one of the dozens first, not theoretically, not philosophically, actually go out - you Ethan Anduril- and give your life for the advancement of a random medical procedure. Then get back to me with an answer to your question. Oops you’d be dead. Dumb fuck.

Horrific. This guy jammed objects into newborn babies’ heads and killed them. He was extremely wealthy and well-regarded in his time. Dr Mengele probably picked up a few tricks from this one.

No. If it were as simple as that, it would just be the lesser evil. But this was torturing people to gain knowledge that could have been gained in better, if less expedient ways, which is a very significant evil.

Since I was 7 years old and discovered TLC/Left Eye, I have been dying for more female rappers and while over the last year or so I have noticed an uptick in female rap songs, it still is very rare for any of them to break out and get the airplay that these male rappers are getting. I don’t get it. This is literally…

This right here. The documentary 20 Feet from Stardom talks about all the amazing back up singers from the 50s, 60s, and 70s who worked on major hits. All of them, black women, tried to break out on their own but were told that they couldn’t do a solo album or solo promotions because of Aretha Franklin’s success.

More so than any other time I can think of, SO MANY (male) rappers sound the EXACT same. They all have a Travis Scott-type sound, they all have that Gucci Mane flow. Cardi is correct, though it’s hilarious that she’s sort of unintentionally subtweeting her fiance.

Dead on, she doesn’t look or sound like any other female rapper that gets press. Every male rapper coming out these days has a name that starts with lil and has the same rhythm to their lyrics as everybody else.