Maybe there was no time travel, maybe she’s a vampire and was alive back then?

So, going back 11,000 years just to murder someone would seem like a waste of a time machine ... BUT, what if the reason she did that was that the person she killed would otherwise have turned out to be, like, REALLY evil, and actually she saved the whole world by murdering them?

Yes, and I would say that any attempt to tell the whole story of the US is going to be flawed; if people were denied tenure every time their research was imperfect, or open to valid complaints, we wouldn’t have a faculty.

My understanding is that, although McPherson and Wood had complaints about some details around the 1619 project, they also agree about the importance of racism in understanding America’s past and present. I think almost all professional historians do.

Yeah, although I think a lot of other places have been passing these sorts of bills already.

Yeah, I would guess that facts are not a big part of how this guy makes his decisions.

I was thinking the same thing. He shouldn’t have used a student photo, and should have been very selective about the photo he did use (I would choose some wealthy celebrity), but a zoology class should definitely be teaching students that humans are in the animal kingdom.

a third that creates death certificate and burial requirements for both miscarriages and abortions

Maybe nooses just spontaneously generate on Amazon properties. Something in the water.

Fucking gross. If they can prove this, there should be serious consequences for the senior officers. Cops clearly can’t police themselves. It came out a while ago that a head of the Boston police union was promoted and given leadership responsibilities even though it was an open secret that he was a pedophile: https://…

That’s fair and also really encouraging. I shouldn’t have bad-mouthed all parents like that.

Not like parents are known to be especially supportive of their trans kids.

surgeries have been marketed on social media like cigarette companies used to market tobacco to children

I had assumed they were just trying to profit off it. I guess it’s a win-win for them. Either keep out the unruly assholes or make a ton of money from them.

They don’t have a problem with the open pedophiles.

I thin what The Root is doing here is pointing out the hypocrisy of other outlets that didn’t seem to care about selective access when Trump was the one doing it. I also think there’s a stronger positive case here, since there are probably lots of other forces preventing people of color from getting into positions to…

But it obviously does matter, because even if you think this is a bad idea, it’s clearly a much less bad idea than only allowing access to non-White journalists for the rest of her term. It’s also clearly very different from saying “non-White journalists can’t report on the mayor”, which is what censorship actually…

But this isn’t censorship. That’s a key point you seem to be dodging. What publication or individual is being blocked by Lightfoot? Giving some people preferential access on a specific topic is just not censorship. Now, we can disagree on whether this is a good idea, or whether it’s fair. I’m not personally convinced…

That’s not remotely relevant to the example I gave, and it’s not particularly relevant to this case. The mayor is expanding access to herself on a particular fluffy topic, but she’s doing so selectively (which, by the way, was always going to be the case; there’s no way she could guarantee an interview to every single…

I am constantly amazed by how many people seem to think that being respectful of trans people is one step away from Nazism.