This isn’t about forcing people to honor someone else. This is about a powerful political lobby using dishonest arguments to prevent someone from receiving an honor for her human rights work. They do so because receiving it would give her more of a platform to continue criticizing the human rights abuses of their…
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Have you never been taught American history? Or been to a 4th of July celebration? The forced reverence of this country’s Founding Fathers is pretty much standard, including every time we spend money, for instance. This is a lame argument.
You missed the point. Re-read what the author said, and figure out why what you said holds no weight.
If Alabama State had Auburn’s endowment from its inception, things might be different. Not to mention the whole reason HBCUs exist in the first place...
I used to make fun of Curling but then my college roomies and I got high and spent an entire weekend watching Curling and now I know a lot about Curling and I really like Curling.
He’s probably going by Meghan has said. If she’s said “I don’t really have any family but my mom.”, why wouldn’t he believe and respects how she feels?
this would be true were it not for the President’s spokesperson explicitly calling for ESPN to fire her. The First Amendment was written to allow private citizens to criticize the government without fear of official reprisal. as with just about everything else they do, the administration crossed the line and prevented…
It’s interesting to me that you you think the country has moved “so far to the right” based on a number of true examples that I’m not trying to refute. But people on the right think the country has moved so far to the left based on a number of true examples (legalized gay marriage, legalization/relaxation of…
The misunderstood First Amendment argument is one of my pet peeves.
These are the same people who consistently conflate “calling out racism” with “being racist against white people.”
Our country has moved so far to the right that people who openly call themselves “conservatives” are basically authoritarians. It isn’t about consistency in the law, it’s about using your power to silence people you don’t like.
Right? “I feel it is right for each of these people to liquidate one of their properties and donate the proceeds to this effort” is an absolutely insane take for a bunch of reasons, but at least it bears some resemblance to how wealth works in reality.
Watching a room full of people whose collective net worth is well over double the money actually raised for hurricane relief felt a little funny—a friend texted me during the telecast that if all the celebrities in that room donated a tenth of their salary to hurricane relief, we wouldn’t have to have to endure this…
Celebrities who raise money for anything are always chastised for not giving enough themselves, no matter how much they actually give. Every person involved in this kind of endeavor gives some money; some more generously than others. But I don’t see the problem with a rich person giving a nice chunk of change AND…
The audacity to call Serena “Thick.” Bitch, I couldn’t tell you apart from a line up of drunk sorority girls at an Arizona State frat party. You’re not exactly one to judge looks.
That’s because it’s easier to hide your racism underneath patriotism. There’s this false belief that if I’m a patriot, I can’t possibly be a racist.
She was told after the team competition that her problem was underrotations and edges, and instead of saying, "Yes, I've got to clean that up before the individual competition," her response was "I'll have to review the protocols." She didn't start skating last month. She knows how it's supposed to be done and what…
All I keep thinking as she's doing the media rounds and talking about how unfair the scoring is is that...didn't you sign up for the competition? Didn't you agree to this scoring system? How come it never bothered you before, when you were the beneficiary?
THIS. Many other less wealthy countries manage to state sponsor their Olympic teams...this free-fall financing of our Olympic athletes cuts off the pool of talent at the wealthy ....this makes NO sense whatsoever.
There should be state sponsored olympic athletic programs from kindergarten on up that funnel kids with…