Honestly, this is the best comment I could hope to get for this piece.

Alien day being on 4/26 is goddamn stupid. It should fall on the 426th day of the year, dummies.

When he says that, I’m hearing “the left doesn’t put women on a creepy paternalistic pedestal, like we do, and judges them according to their own merits (and actions) like actual humans.”

Starred for the subtlety of this comment.

“It’s funny, the left says they really respect women, and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that, they boo and hiss. 

During the break we were commenting on Ivanka’s voice and how it maintained a slow and steady rhythm then resonated like a smooth jizz radio BJ. This was in no way a joke about anything else.

Suspected employee has been identified:

omfg

Wait, there was another dude besides John Hannah in that movie? 

OH MY GOD ODED FEHR. The first time I’d ever seen him in anything it was in Covert Affairs so I was appropriately thrilled to see him in this. And was really fucking happy at the end when he was still alive because it looked like it was going to go the way of ‘POC man who actually knows what the fuck he’s about dies…

Thank you. Concentration camps were used by the English in the Boer War, they are not solely a Shoah thing.

what’s more is this sort of language ownership creates a relative scale that one day could render the horror of the holocaust less. what happens when another population is exterminated in the future (north koreans, say), or if/when we redefine horrors not by temporal efficiency or methods of murder or specific…

And against the Japanese in the US during WWII.

Can we please also try not to forget that concentration camps (unlike death camps) have a longer history and were one of the many brilliant inventions of the British Empire? Used first against the native people of Africa? I’d like to be able to say publicly what is an objective historical fact without being branded a…

“Let’s dispense with sloppy comparisons and, while we’re at it, assume that Holocaust comparisons are henceforth off-limits.”

I actually agree with this point. Having lost family members to the Holocaust—of one branch of the extended family, only two individuals survived the camps—I know that there is no rational conversation on this topic. The horror and the grief and the rage are so immense (and should be) that it seems obscene to impose…

I disagree that his use of the term was misguided. If we’re working from this definition of concentration camp:

You’re right. Kissinger’s ability to diss someone who is unfortunately relevant in a way we find momentarily entertaining as we all prepare for various dystopian fictions to manifest into our current reality also translates to complete forgiveness and unanimous approval for Henry Kissinger.

Or are we just saying ‘even…

This space has been traversed for nearly four months by Jared Kushner, whom I first met about 18 months ago, when he introduced himself after a foreign policy lecture I had given.