I watched the video several times and thought it was meant to be more of an amalgam of all the people overreacting. For fuck's sake, it involved "shooting" the person with a hairdryer. Really? It wasn't graphic in the slightest and was just plain silly.

You know she's not saying, "I can perfectly picture what those women went through as though it had happened to me". She's saying "I know" to mean "I am aware".

Oppression olympics!!! Oppression olympics!!!

But the joke wasn't at the expense of the victims. It was a self-depricating joke about her living conditions. Her living conditions were so terrible, that they were like those of the victims. You can say it wasn't funny, but to say that her attempt at a joke trivializes the plight of the victims is just stupid. The…

Even worse? I'd say The History Channel/TLC's fall has been harder.

I think her confusion (staged or real) about the underground railroad was far more embarrassing for her than pulling someone's hair.

I cracked up when it was just hanging out as she was trying to get out of the way. She had no idea. My worst nightmare come true. Poor, Cynthia always in the crossfire that one.

She and her right tit were innocent bystanders.

There will be a lot of comments about the slap/hair pulling, so I will leave that to others. I'll just say that I feel sorry for Cynthia, who was unfortunately between these two and ended up with her breast out on television when the shit storm hit.

Afghan custom is that the bride's family must be paid a dowry in order for the woman to be eligible for marriage. While Hazaras are looked down upon as an ethnicity, the Shi'a aspect is not as objectionable as much as the fact that Hazaras are looked at as servants, or lesser. Marriages are known to cross ethnic…

This is not religion, this is fucking tribalism pure and simple. It's the moronic belief that we are so great that we are willing to kill lest something else taint our delusions of perfection.

Performing these surgeries is conforming to the will of God. We are to love one another, to treat each other with mercy and help ease one another's pain. I don't subscribe to the Pauline gender-normative doctrines. Christ himself accepted people as they were and tried to get others to accept them too. In this case 'as…

Clearly, the infographic patriarchy's is using their Photoshop privilege to marginalize certain ethnic groups. If you're part of the .jpg, you're part of the problem!

This map is not BS, but the best possible representation of ancestry in America, based on US census data that allow individuals to self-identify their own ancestry, at a nationwide scale. You could create a map with greater detail if you went down to the level of census blocks or census tracts, but then it would be…

I love how everyone commenting is assuming those who listed themselves as "American" are backwoods racist inbreds who vote Republican. Some people just genuinely *don't know*. I can't tell you what my family background is- my last name was too generic and there's too many different origins when you search family names…

Additionally, we can't assume that people who are claiming the designation "American" are all necessarily of white, European ancestry. If it's an option and it's based on self-reporting, then anybody can select that choice.

Rarely have I seen so many questions that could be answered by either reading the fine print on the map or going to the original article, which is linked for convenience. For fuck's sake, people, do your due diligence!

Because, as I said, the map measures majority ancestry population in each county. If Eastern Europeans are diffused enough that they do not form the majority population in any other counties, of course they won't be on the map! You can say that you think a map measuring this specific kind of data is not especially…

This is the region I and most of my ancestors are from. A lot of whites with roots in that territory are from families that have been there so long they have no sense or even knowledge of their European ancestry. That big wave of European immigrants that hit the US in the late 19th and early 20th century did not come…

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