Hmm, interesting. Her own mother had spent quite a bit of time in London—during the Blitz even—so maybe that’s where it came from.

Taken out of context it’s a perfectly cute endearment. I agree, stupid racists.

Why would that excuse her, as a manager, from attaining a baseline level of cultural competence in dealing with her employees?

Nope, she is a monolingual English speaker. I don’t know where she got the term from, actually. Funny you should say that though, she absolutely HATED the term “brat” and would freeze you with an iron glare if you used it in her presence.

My feeling is, if you are sufficiently ignorant of history and context to the point where you say things that are indistinguishable from things an actual bigot might say, your lack of awareness isn’t really a defense against the accusation.

Post November 8, Twitter has become a stream of bad news I feel obligated not to tune out. Not fun at all anymore.

Oh, I adore Last Night. A top ten all time favorite film of mine for sure.

We’ll never know how long they might have lingered in that little clearing in the brush...

Aw. I didn’t think to check. That burner is a scamp. The argument was so pure in its untainted form.

You got a “Fail.” of your very own! In an unexpected twist the reporter becomes part of the story!

This thread rules.

Fair enough. If the edit window hadn’t closed I would def change it to “rumored paramour.” This article seems like a pretty even-handed take:

All that Botox is for keeping a poker face during her high-level double dealings on behalf of mother Russia.

Yup. They went to Croatia. They posted a pic on instagram even.

Only insofar as that entire continent is now also implicated.

Oh my god is Nicole in the tank for Putin? Because isn’t she married to some red state-type country singer? Is that still going on?

Me too, it seems so damning. Trump’s last press conference was the one in which he invited Russia to hack Clinton and I believe it was right around the same time as their little jaunt.

Let’s not forget that Ivanka vacationed with Putin’s paramour Wendi Deng in August.

Try eating candy corn that’s been refrigerated, I just discovered this and it’s amazingly yummy if you like candy corn like I do.

I still don’t trust it. I think he’s testing the waters for a possible Trump campaign pivot attempt.