She truly was the Heroine of Dunkirk that day and it’s awesome to know that she is still afloat today.

The amazing part to her is that she didn’t simply founder under the weight of her crews’ clanking brass balls. Hell of a story, that one.

Agreed. The author’s lack of knowledge is embarrassing with no mention of the Battle of Britain considered by many, including the Germans, as the most important battle of WWII. If we lost the BoB and Germany invaded we’d eventually be speaking Russian (yes, Russian not German) because the English and their allies…

From DDayMuseum.co.uk

It is a double-whammy of inaccuracy, considering the British and Canadians together landed more soldiers than the Americans (although the Americans more than the British or Canadians individually) and the Red Army was pressuring Germany by 1943.

How about “the Allies’ invasion on the beaches of Normandy.”

ORLY?? More British & Commonwealth troops landed on D-Day than Americans. This is exactly the kind of shit that winds Britons up when Americans talk about WW2.

Security is still a concern if faces can’t be seen on camera. Someone could easily copy that attire and do something terrible, making it impossible to identify a perpetrator. I have no doubt that this woman had no such intention, but schools should have the right to restrict veils, hoodies, masks, and any items that…

‘progress’ on these issues is dependent on the decline of religion. Less religion = fewer religious rules = fewer people discriminating against one another for arbitrary reasons.

I never realized how American I am until I got into a debate about the face veil with some European friends. I feel very strongly that people should be free to express their religious beliefs however they choose, even if I fundamentally disagree with their views. My liberal European friends feel just as strongly…

I recommend reporting him to the kinja helpdesk, they’ll usually get rid of trolls within a day or two if you show them links to their behavior

BTW the guy is randomly spouting about “Sharia Courts” and trying to push that they are actual courts when the fact is they’re informal bodies that can adjudicate on “religious matters” only and have no actual authority in the court of law and any state court can overrule anything they say even then, like the General…

The school administration’s responsibility for the safety of their students does, I think, reasonably includes precluding unidentifiable, masked people from poking around school grounds... If your face is covered, how is the school supposed to identify you, and make sure some stranger isn’t pick up your kids?

Not really. In complete opposite of the US, where you have no state religion but push Christianity like hell, we have a state religion but making sure workplaces are largely secular is very popular so the banning of all iconography is designed to make sure no religion is being promoted and no one feels pressured to be…

Watching this, I was waiting for the end, when I was sure the women would say something like, “It’s okay, I’ve already seen these.” But then as I realized that reassurance wasn’t going to come, I thought, “Damn right. This isn’t about reassuring these men they are good; it’s about getting them to confront the problem,…

I find that, generally, men have NO idea. When I’ve told my male colleagues about the harassment I’ve gotten just being a woman on the internet with an opinion (and I am a writer so i HAVE to be on twitter, you can’t just opt out), they have been absolutely horrified.

Most men have blinders and/or deep seated denial about harassment, especially if they do not engage in direct violent harassment. Being forced to say those timestamped words while looking a woman in the eye might be the only way they have a shot at overcoming it. I just hope all of those men realize what they are…

It’s like things like this makes everyone a victim to a varying degree: the most direct victims are the women who have to live with this, with the fear of knowing that someone somewhere out there thinks this of them with no indication that it’s JUST a thought and not a plan of action. Their families have to carry that…