Agreed. I think there needs to be a lot more work put into understanding that a) it’s more than the classic handful people know about and b) African Americans weren’t only doing things around the Civil War and Civil Rights eras. Part of why people don’t seem to get how Civil Rights worked is that they seem to think…

Reminds me of a guy who wanted to put a hotel in my hometown. Normally, not that odd, we have a great beach. Bit he wanted to put it IN TOWN (like half an hour from the beach) and then tried to get the city to pay for it since his hotel would attract more people to the in-town areas, allegedly. Yeah, sure man, your…

You know, the focus on the “antebellum” era really does rob the South of the rest of its history. Everyone’s so focused on it and recreating it in some way they ignore everything else. Like, they want to tell me there wasn’t some epic southern “fuck the feds” moonshine running going on in the 20s? No way that was only…

Given it was a science teacher they and other kids had bullied (bible belt: science not welcome if it contradicts the party line) I think she knew and dgaf. I cannot tell you how many of her classes the ruined.

Oh, that was a major part of my thesis. EVERY study I had in the lit review showed that people genuinely preferred going to the museum for the real thing whenever possible, it’s just for a lot of people it’s not possible due to money or physical location.

I cannot recommend it as they are phasing it out. I went to JFK University. It was 3 years for me (2 if you don’t do the MBA and just get a Master’s). I do feel it needed more focus on the practicals and internships physically doing things as I spent a year interning in basic collections stuff and almost EVERYTHING…

Yep. My thesis actually involved museums and the web (focus on putting collections online) and one of the articles I read was all about instagram (there were quite a few other social media articles too). Like this huge debate of “we don’t mind these specific artifacts going online since we allow photos with them but…

As someone who perfected such a stare in middle school I find it helps to remember you are trying to convey with your eyes that you despise them with every deep ember of hate in your soul.

Yep. I got my museum studies degree a few months ago and one of the fun discussions was had was “smartphones suck, selfie sticks are infinitely worse”

Counterpoint, you have never had to fly with period cramps.

Because there are people who honestly think the KKK are a defunct club that does nothing and now that they’re gaining in power again it’s good to have receipts on what they really believe to stop them from spinning the narrative too much.

Yeah most I know about end with WWII. Which, yeah, then you miss a hell of a lot.

I think some of it is how history is taught to us as well. A lot of people seem to think the Civil Rights Movement started in the sixties instead of was going on the whole damn time after Jim Crow started.

Yep. Camping on the street in a trailer last I checked.

Yep, but on the other hand in Mereen Grey Worm and Missendei were telling him point blank what he was doing wrong and he was pretty much ignoring it.

And then they got into a fight over how high the rent was and are now camping on the sidewalk by Trump Tower, last I checked.

Yep. We were warned in s5 when they went off book with Dorne to shitty results and s6 only proved it. I’m interested in seeing where it goes and what ending they go with but honestly they have skipped and cut so much there is no way it bears any resemblance to how Martin will end it.

Ooh, sounds good, thanks

Tyrion’s been stupid since s6. I mean his plot was just really, really bad there where he does almost everything wrong while stalling until Dany gets back and it was like...why? Dany returning in a blaze of glory did not require everyone else in Mereen to be dumbasses.

I’ll admit, I do find Arya’s plot more compelling right now than I have in a while, as a deconstruction of the classic revenge plot of “kid’s family is killed, kid goes off to train, kid avenges family upon return.” The rest of Westeros didn’t stall while Arya was wandering the woods or off getting training from the…