Perhaps “political beliefs are fair game”.

Also while your personal religious beliefs deserve to be left alone/not discriminated against, if you are discriminatory/bigoted because “it’s your religion”, also fair game.

Seriously. Talib Kweli has a great song in which he calls Confederates/white southerners “terrorists with etiquette who fought and killed they president / their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent” and nobody got their panties knotted up about it. And that was way more confrontational than “I twirl on them…

No but I need that dress.

I feel like ‘in an afterword’ is sort of a cop-out, honestly.

Seems like it could work, if it were based in some sort of truth. But seeing as (from the link above) Hercules actually ran away on Washington’s birthday...maybe not so much.

You wait until they are developmentally ready to understand the complexity. That would probably be sometime after they are too old for reading Scholastic books.

The cultural contributions - yes, certainly, and children can understand that. But perhaps before introducing the complex and emotionally charged idea that ‘some slaves loved their masters’, which is probably true, perhaps those children need to understand what ‘slavery’ really meant for them as a whole, first.…

Well yeah - if you free a bunch of people who didn’t want to be enslaved, but had room and board while enslaved, and then purposely make it nearly impossible for them to find decent work to support themselves, on some level they will miss the guaranteed room and board. It doesn’t mean they want to be slaves again or…

If every baby is expected to have a saint name in Catholicism, how do they get any saints with different names? You’d just get like 15 St. Thomases and 243 St. Marys and zero St. Jaydens or St. Dakotas or whatever.

I keep trying to figure out what I hate about this (other than that it’s kind of high school basic) and I think - well I can’t hate the cut, it’s too boring to hate. Besides she has a great body, everything looks good on her including this style of dress. It’s the boring-ass hair and the ugly “high school girl loves…

no, I liked this color when I was 4

YES

I don’t understand the architecture of this

what the actual fuck is this

I would think this is cobalt, not navy?

I love this too and I usually hate pink

well, *I* love it and I usually hate yellow

I like this dress and I like the color but when did “maroon” or “burgundy” or “wine” become “Marsala”? Why are we making up new names for colors that already have names?

it’s not a zoot suit but it is a riot

this color is only OK because it’s got bling.