Speaking with an accent isn’t the same as having a poor grasp of the language, though. And book smarts aren’t the same as a certain degree of shrewdness.

Do we need to remove all reference? Probably not. Then again, getting our knickers in a knot because a children’s library association wants to the name of their most prestigious award to be a little less associated with “wow, it’s great to be white!” history probably isn’t necessary, either.

The attempts to ban the book from the school don’t actually have a thing to do with either the organization or the award, though. In fact, the organization itself is very much against book banning.

You realize that the books weren’t written until the late 1930s and early 1940s, right? Racism might have been more acceptable then than now, but it’s hard to buy that considering the amount of screeching just in this comment thread alone.

Not even close to the same tone in those books, so either you’ve neither actually read them or you have a remarkable problem with reading comprehension.

So the exact same award from the exact same organization with the exact same prize is meaningless if it’s the Children’s Literature Legacy Award?

Slight quibble - it’s irrelevant whether DC law protects political affiliation because the restaurant isn’t in DC.

Surprisingly, it’s even more narrow than you state. It’s not that the CRC said the baker’s argument was bullshit, it was that at least one CRC member made comments to that effect before hearing any evidence in the case, and then made personally insulting comments about the baker’s religious views during the hearing.…

Do you have legal pot? And a refugee program? If so, I could learn to talk funny.

I’ve often joked that I’m the whitest woman ever, but damn, not even I’m that white. 

They’re not talking about a patient’s assessment of pain. They’re talking about how the medical provider treats it. And study after study has shown that medical providers routinely discount what their patients tell them when the patient is female or an ethnic minority.

Tim Allen’s show was cancelled after 6 years and for reasons that had nothing to do with his political views. Or are you claiming that somehow the network just suddenly noticed he’s a quasi-Republican? Or are you claiming that he suddenly made a huge change in his political views?

I’m not quite sure how to break it to you, but the fact that Obama was nominated for an award he didn’t deserve before he’d actually done anything in no way makes it OK for Trump to do, well, anything.

IIRC, it depends on whether you were deliberately trying to mislead them. If you think you actually have 15 pairs, then you’re not lying if you tell them you have 15 pairs.

Do you have to have your name mentioned every other sentence to keep you entertained? Is it necessary for your employees to hide important info from you because it makes you cranky if it’s not about you? Probably not, and either way, this is not part of a reasonable decision-making process.

I suspect that’s why she never completed the application.

Served alongside an extra helping of statins.

Apparently, the US can only support so many giant mega assholes at one time. To the MAGA-ites, the fact that WJC is a flaming asshole about women means that Trump can’t be. Who knew, right?

She’s useless to us, but she’s far from the most useless person in the administration. In fact, she’s probably one of its most effective members. She stands there and puts out the administration’s message without flinching, even when that message changes in the middle of her press briefing.

From what I’ve read (which admittedly may or may not be complete), during the Obama administration, the UACs were used to house children than had actually arrived as unaccompanied minors or in cases where it was questionable whether the adult with them was actually a parent/guardian. The current administration, on the…