Half a country doesn’t fight a war with the other half over something that was “on its way out anyways”. That the states rights argument (“pretty much as reported”, holy shit) has leaked out to other nations is extremely disturbing, not evidence that you have “no horse”. This is akin to saying “Hey, the Nazis were…

Slavery would have lost its economic importance eventually, as happened in Brazil, but every Southern state to publish a Declaration of Secession explicitly mentioned slavery and white supremacy as reasons for leaving the Union. Even if slavery died out as a major economic institution, that would not automatically…

Anyone using the three-fifths clause to say that it teaches children that slavery is “OK” is uninformed, misinformed, or manipulating. That is a misrepresentation of the clause, which while it may be debatable that it was misguided or ineffective or something, the intent was not what these people say it was.

“Learning about slavery feels awful—too bad! Try living with its repercussions while white people tell you there weren’t any.”

I was an insecure, attention-seeking troll

Twitter was a mistake.  

Wait long enough and every hero becomes a vilain

After one of his managers told him that a line cook needed to borrow money to get groceries, Whalen was moved to reconsider wages at the company.

Listen, Bob - if the gay people in your life haven’t stopped you from leaving the house looking like a boxcar hobo who collapsed on a Walgreen’s 4th of July display, then they’re definitely not your friends.

It’s weird to read this which is written as this is ancient history, with the author coolly observing this phenomenon as if from afar. I am eight months older than William. I remember well the incongruity of flipping through Tiger Beat or Seventeen looking at pictures of teenie bopper pop stars and actors, only to be…

That was such a sad story. Those people truly sound like the Absolute Worst (although I’m still judging the queen for listening to them).

Did they ask Charles’ permission in writing? Preferably calligraphy on high quality card stock.

Yeah, that’s exactly the problem. Everybody “knows” about these predators -wasn’t there a story about how Ben Affleck supposedly responded to Rose McGowan by saying something like “damnit I told Harvey not to do that again!”? - but no one actually DOES anything about them unless and until they lose their power. In…

Meanwhile, a judge has ordered Le-Nguyen not to return home

Mind you, Kim Kardashian gave up on it too. A woman who pretty much never met a stuffed bank account she didn’t like. That says something...

Quentin Tarantino was Weinstein’s BUDDY. And by some accounts, did his own share of creepy shit.

I remember all the pictures of Harry chatting with family at his grandfather’s funeral, and I could see someone fondly recalling that he called Liz “lilibet” and Harry casually asking his GRANDMOTHER if he could name his soon-to-arrive child that. I feel like all these palace hangers on all think these things should…

I mean the biggest thing with “royal experts” is that all of them have clearly never met any of the people they claim to be experts on, given how they waffle on about “oh what I think paedo/racist/lazy means this” when it’s the most banal things made out to be deliberate actions of serious importance. If we saw…

It seems less like they asked ‘The Queen’ and more that they asked Granny if she would be okay with them naming the baby after her. The palace flunkies seem to think that they should have asked The Queen, instead of a grandson asking his grandmother.

For me "Royals expert" is synonymous with "racist". I mean, obviously, but they're truly out in the press being disgusting and racist and acting aghast when they get called on it.