Kind of an In Vino Veritas thing? I wish I could parse it out. My dad for instance was always socially naive, let’s say, rather than actually racist. The typical sheltered small-town background, raised-in-the-forties-and-fifties white American. Unreflected connotations rather than deliberate associations.
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Ha. I am actually a bit chuffed I came up with that one; must try to disseminate. :)
You know that the punishment is supposed to fit the crime right?
My exact thoughts. Then I felt like an asshole because of the whole human trafficking aspect of it, but still...the fact that it was Bob Fucking Kraft is such a beautiful thing.
I hope the NFL forces him to sell the team and then forces the Patriots to remove every reference to his glory days as their owner.
You said it better than I could. It’s fun to dunk on anything Pats related, but the underlying story here, and what makes this truly despicable, is that this story - as the Jupiter PD rightfully emphasized - is about young women being sold into sex work against their will. I mean, in this context it doesn’t even feel…
Ya, this sounds like a bad one too. Those poor women. And what a cheap bastard! Get a sugar baby you miser!!! I do agree it should be legalized and regulated though. But the politicians love the hysteria anything having to do with sex can evoke.
You realize that not every case of human sex trafficking involves women tied up in a safehouse waiting for Liam Neeson to bust down the door, right? Like the article said, a lot of these women may have found themselves stuck in this position. Sure, they may not be physically restricted from leaving, but some may not…
Go to a massage parlor and you won’t have to.
On the one hand, legalize and regulate sex work.
This team really is committed to illegally getting stuff released from their balls.
And somehow the Patriots will use this as motivation to win another Super Bowl next year.
Slavery didn’t end in this country until 1965.
Former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder’s grandparents were slaves.
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You’re not wrong. I didn’t really start to learn the horrifying details of what we did to the Native Americans until I was in undergrad.
I mean, I can kind of understand why a K-12 institution wouldn’t want to tell a bunch of kindergarten kids “By the way, children--did you know that we systematically slaughtered…
The whole treatment of the Native Americans is something that is 100% glossed over in every primary school education. I grew up in a fairly progressive town in New England. You’d think there would be lots of talk about the Native people considering 90% of the towns and states are named after them. Nope...not even a…
Fun Fact: I schooled Mark Steyn to his face at a conference in DC. He was trying to wedge in to get in the face of a researcher who was instrumental in promulgating the demographic transition model. He was irate that someone could suggest that the US had zero to negative population growth in its immediate future based…
Gee, they'll do ANYTHING to avoid talking about Christopher Hasson. Did they cut to a car-chase or baby pandas afterward?