People also forget that these ratings also protect children. My mom is an extremely level-headed woman and probably her worst mistake as a parent was letting me and my little sister, at ages 11 and 8, watch Schindler’s List when it came on TV. I was a weird child who loved history and I had recently read The Diary of…

It comes from white Americans who are maybe 1/8th of Irish descent trying to get black people to stop talking about slavery. That’s literally it.

OK, where to start? I loooooooove the upcoming plot with Layla basically single white female-ing Juliette, getting her manager and then Avery to produce for her!! Wuuuuuut!! I actually really like Layla and think she’s gotten the short end of the stick the entire time she’s been on the show and Juliette was…

Canada has announced that they are putting a woman on paper currency, and may select Harriet Tubman. She lived in Canada after she escaped and only returned to the U.S. to help escaped slaves move to Canada.

Also, it’s kind of baffling. No, the cashier does not think they are for you. He or she thinks you are either in a serious relationship with a woman or have a teenaged daughter (depending on your age). Like, it should be more embarrassing for we women to buy the tampons for ourselves, since the cashier can, rightly or…

It’s a truly stomach churning combination of fetishizing other groups’ miseries, trying to “understand” by false-comparing different historical experiences, and belittling the institution of American slavery.

No it wasn’t cushy but they were allowed to vote, own property, and hold political office things that were denied to slaves and free black people

I once dated a guy where my period came mid-coitus during the first time we had sex. I was so embarrassed (I was young) I ran to the bathroom. When I came back he was gone...I was freaking out for 5 minutes when he came in the room and had brought me back tampons. No big deal. We’re married now. Moral of the story:…

I rip off a piece of the box and say, “Get me more of these.” He can’t get my takeout order right a lot of the time, but he always comes back with the correct feminine hygiene products.

Edited to add: Oh, one time Target was out of my brand so he called from the aisle to ask if “super absorbency” and “ultra absorbency”…

I’ve never understood dudes’ problems with buying tampons. You know when women buy them, we actually have to face the cashier with both of us knowing that we’re going to be sticking these things up our hoo-has?

Indentured servitude was often really, really brutal and terrible. I spent a while studying the practice in colonial New England, where it was pretty common for young girls to be sold into it as house maids, where they would be beaten and raped until they managed to get out of it, which could take years and years.…

God, if I hear one more person bring up the “BUT THE IRISH!!!” argument when discussing racial oppression I will strangle them. I’m Jewish, and I don’t feel the compulsion to yell out “BUT ANTISEMITISM!!!!” when discussing the Black Lives Matter campaign. Different topic for a different time. Totally and completely…

As a historian and an Irishman, I thoroughly approve of this. I mean, yes, there are some famously awful things that the Irish people have gone through over the years (the aforementioned research from the article, Oliver Cromwell, the Irish Famine, etc.), but the important thing to remember is that the Irish were…

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The Irish in America were able to attain their "white" status by joining the police. The deal was that they would protect Anglo-Saxon wealth/theft by imprisoning, patrolling and outright murdering black Americans. Even if the Irish suffering was that bad, their turncoat behaviour is what gets me. You can't complain…

lol wut. The Irish had it bad off, to be sure, but they did not experience anything even remotely like systemic slavery. Arguments for such an idea are borne of pure white supremacist martyrdom complexes.

OH MY GOSH, THANK YOU. I have had it about up to here (indicate point on forehead) with this. At this rate we’ll be revising history to say that all Europeans who worked in ANY service position were slaves. We’re at a socital turning point where now that the fight for equality is back at the forefront, and those…

This is nothing new. The War on Drugs was always, always about funneling poor Black and Latino males into the prison industrial complex. And legalization was always, always about increasing revenue in already predominately white, wealthy areas while the people responsible for all major innovations in the production,…

As a historian I approve this clearing of the record.

As Chris Rock said, “only the white man can profit from pain.” Tabacco kills millions each year, but since white people make the money, that’s OK. “It’s alright, because it’s all white.” Weed kills almost no one, but since it (used to be) brown and black people making the money, it was illegal.