I am predicting beards will be allowed by the end of 2018.

The spelling of “principal” vs. “principle”—the principal is your pal! From Ramona Quimby.

“Those who lionize historical figures because they fought for the ‘right’ to subjugate, abuse, and exploit an entire race of people based on the notion of that race’s inherent inferiority exacerbate racism.” -A non-idiot.

The Atlantic did a pretty good series about the southern mythology around Lee. Basically, everything you’re spouting off about him was invented after his death to further the “lost cause” narrative. In particular, the idea that he opposed slavery is the result of a highly selective editing of his correspondence meant…

Judging by the fact that literally every post about social media has one or more comments of a similar nature to yours ... nope.

would nevertheless be against “the spirit of reconciliation” in which they were supposedly dedicated.

I don’t know, I’d be okay with naming streets after Confederate generals as long as they all dead end at Sherman Way.

“We can scarcely take up a newspaper ... that is not filled with nauseating flatteries” of Lee, from which “it would seem ... that the soldier who kills the most men in battle, even in a bad cause, is the greatest Christian, and entitled to the highest place in heaven” —Frederick Douglass, 2017 

Maybe a direct appeal, something along the lines of:

Hey, remember...these are the people Democrats forgot all about. If only they’d made more of an effort to understand their inbred, hateful, ignorant pain.

Don’t pull the ladder up behind you. Acknowledge the accident of birth that had you born in the “right” skin tone and begin waging class warfare.

Also part of white male privilege is that we’re taught to stand up for ourselves and challenge authority if we are being mistreated because “the worst they can say is no”. Minority populations face a different equation where there are more potential consequences than simple rejection. This sounds like one of the times…

Yes, to all of this.

It’s the very definition of white privilege to complain about ‘white privilege.’

It’s worth outlining how very real, concrete and measurable white privilege is, but it’s a little over-optimistic to say that doing so will lower resistance. A lot of white people just refuse to believe anything about the advantages they have if their life is any less than perfect.

Maybe that’s why he had such a good friendship with Terry Pratchett. Pratchett has called us apes telling stories in Discworld and considered it human’s most defining trait that allows us define and explain the world and then change it by changing the story. But it’s true Gaiman has special knack for collecting them…

That is an excellent idea, one of the core parts of D&D to explore being someone else and this would be a visual manifestation of that. That could be cool on so many levels, opening up so many possibilities.

Wasn’t that a plot line on Seinfeld? Jerry pretends to not watch a TV show and gets called on it and has to take a lie detector test? Life imitating art.

At least in my admittedly poor memory, sexuality isn’t really focused or cogent enough for awareness before high school. Until then, it’s more generalized fascination and possibly obsession.

I think it could be done if they have her as a normal girl who doesn’t engage in any real sexual activity and doesn’t know exactly why she’s so fascinated in boys all of a sudden, but then they’d get a whole dumptruck of hate from the edgy feminist crowd about how they “Disneyfied” “real” sexuality. Personally, I…