My parents never used that particular turn of phrase, but I specifically remember as a child, hearing adults use stupid, cutesy little euphimisms like that for things that kids shouldn’t hear about, and finding it terribly patronizing, to the point where I would lose respect for any adult who said shit like that.…

Yes that’s so gross. It’s like the newer version of “mother’s little helper” pills from the 60s.

I came here to say exactly this and went looking through comments to see if anyone had said it first. Because yes. Infantilizing drinking is stupid for about 6 thousand reasons, but also, Jesus, LADIES. You’re fucking grown-ups. Comport yourselves as such. Not least because when it comes to drinking in front of kids /…

Yes! Call things by their proper names. I hate all sorts of this nonsense.

You know what I hate? When moms call wine “mommy juice” in front of their kids. Also when they go on and on about how they need a glass of wine and how great it is right while their kids are in the room. I will drink wine occasionally in front of them but I won’t wax rhapsodic about how great it is. I just think it…

“And that concludes today’s episode of HUMANS AND THE TERRIBLE THINGS THETHEY DO”

No problem. I read his comment and my reaction was thus:

Because they were conversing about the Holocaust and his religion added context as to why he said what he did. I’m assuming that you didn’t pass reading-comprehension in grade school so your ignorance is forgiven, bless your heart :)

Not to mention that fact that Germany has displayed far more collective contrition for their sins than Japan has for theirs. Wasn’t there a recent prime minister who basically denied the rape of Nanking and the taking of “comfort women”?

While I do see a problem in trying to nudge a bias into a history class, I remember history in middle school being taught in the broadest of brush strokes. In high school I barely remember using the text book at all. We had lots of supplementary material to read and we weren’t even allowed cite the text book in term…

I think you’re reading the wrong thing into this. It seemed obvious that the Jewish part was mentioned because (and I don’t know if you know this), Jewish people were put into concentration camps by the Germans in WWII, and are generally well versed in that part of history. IN CONTRAST TO THAT, many Jewish Americans…

This is bizarre to me, because we studied the internment camps so much in school that basically I learned hardly anything about the war otherwise. (But then, I grew up not too far from Manzanar so maybe that was it?).

You’re tilting @ windmills; relax, Francis

I was a fucking history major and didn’t know the full extent of it until I was an adult and read about it in novels (that were researched and based on true events). You can almost see where people want to ignore it because jesus, you need brain bleach after that. But obviously we have to learn these things in order…

Canadian here, and our textbooks didn’t mention Canadian-Japanese internment camps at all. It wasn’t until I was 19 or 20 that a friend who was a few years older told me about it. I was horrified that the general attitude seemed to be “pretend it didn’t happen”.

Same thing with my AP US History class, and I went to the same school as Gordon Hirabayashi.

I actually said to a Jewish friend recently about what the Japanese did to the Chinese and I said that Japan was just as horrible as Nazi Germany and he said “well I wouldn’t go THAT far”. So I showed him a picture of a pile of beheaded Chinese heads in Nanking and he quickly shut up.

Yeah, this randilyn person clearly did not even read the article they linked to, and is now trying desperately to convince everyone they never said it was a real ad - even though their original post says “Reminds me of this bullshit from Ford Italia” and they answered “Yup” to someone asking “Is that real?”.

My aunt and I have been marathoning Hawaii Five-O( The new series) on Netflix and we just watched an episode from season 4 about a Japanese man whose family was sent to a Hawaiin interment camp in 1943, and he thought a solider guarding the camp had killed his father. It was a really well written episode, both as a…