Ramsay was a bastard, like Jon Snow. He was Ramsay Snow before being legitimized as a Bolton.

We’re making progress. When I see women / minorities getting promoted I think “you go, girl” as should anyone else who respects quality work. Anyone who resents women or minorities for being successful - especially people who try to undermine or impede their success - is an asshole and, I hope, part of a vanishing…

My boss through the middle third of my career (roughly) was a black woman. Professional, compassionate, skilled. If she wasn’t making as much as her white / male counterparts, then that’s a g*****n disgrace. I think she probably was, though; my employer made gender / racial parity a priority since before I started…

So you’re saying Daenerys is analogous to Chelsea Clinton? I don’t really get what you’re saying here, cos Bill Clinton enjoyed a lot of popularity with black people and the crime bill still had its supporters within the black community. Aerys was universally feared and despised but one thing he didn’t do was permit…

Yeah, true. That’s just sort of the way Westeros works, though. The noble class has the power and their conflicts are what drive the course of history. Essos’ Free Cities are different, as are the other societies of which we don’t see much in the books. In Westeros, though, if you’re important to the Big Picture,…

Chain smokers now will remain chain smokers. Casual smokers now will be less likely to become chain smokers.

THC isn’t addictive. Different products, different business models.

Addicts are not an ethically permissible market base. People who enjoy smoking are free to do so, but the aim here is to reduce the addictive properties of the product consumed. In the long run, reducing the capacity for their products to create new addicts actually harms Big Tobacco’s prospects.

If the success of an industry is founded on being able to peddle highly concentrated addictive substances, and/or if the market base is composed primarily of addicts, then said industry is ripe for government intervention. Exploiting physiological dependence is a very dangerous and unethical business model, even in a…

Consuming a carcinogenic, addictive toxin that generates a great deal of waste isn’t exactly a sane and healthy choice.

It’s debatable, but research seems to suggest not. What it will do is make it harder for people to get addicted in the first place.

Yeah, I mean to be fair, if you’re not noble in their world, you basically just get shit on nonstop (unless you’re lucky enough to be out of the path of warring nobles). It’s rare for commoners or slaves to climb the social ladder; the odds and system are heavily against them.

Essos is East, yes, but also much larger than Westeros. Their southern limits are about the same, hence the Mediterranean-looking Dornish vs. the middle Eastern-y looking people around Slaver’s Bay.

He was born into some privilege but has still been through an unbelievable amount of shit. It was his rejection of that privilege and his perseverance in the face of adversity that got him where he is, not just his noble blood. Noble blood doesn’t mean too much for characters in Westeros (for long).

It happens much more often than is reported, as it’s no longer a hot media story. The truth is though that people die - alarmingly often - from things like ‘excited delirium’ after being repeatedly tased and/or beaten by the cops.

That’s only true if your definition of POC is “anyone who is not a ginger”. Otherwise, no, you’re wrong. Open your eyes.

Ha, yeah. No white slaves here. GTFO dude.

I swear you could read a Winnie the Pooh story and have some sort of paranoid racist interpretation to rant about. Maybe publish a long essay about how Eeyore is actually a racist police chief and Piglet is a ‘false ally’ to Winnie.

Slaver’s Bay isn’t full of black slaves. The Unsullied aren’t slaves so much as they are elite eunuch mercenaries. It’s not stated that they’re all black in the books, nor are they all black in the show - in fact, most of them are WHITE. Take off your blinders for just a second, dude.

It’s the same as Earth - away from the equator, people are more fairer-skinned. Some are even blueish or greenish and look even more alien as you get into way-out lands like Ib. Toward the equator they’re darker-skinned.