The entire point the guy is making is that only minorities are expected to hyphenate. White people just get to be “Americans”, everyone that isn’t white is expected to hyphenate a footnote onto their citizenship.

Being of Mexican descent and being proud of it certainly warrants the use of “Mexican-American” if someone…

As a person of Native decent it isn’t cultural appropriation at all, it is actually just a mistake and the name stuck. The settlers thought they were in India, and called the people they found Indians. Once they realized their mistake the name was already in place. It isn’t mean or degrading it is just a name. Stop…

I... Dunno, man. I think I see it more as a tribute of sorts.

Oh knight in shining armor. Where have you been?

That was your takeaway from the article?

Housing starts are on a steady 5-year growth trend, from under 1M in 2013 to around 1.25M today. That’s roughly a 25% increase in houses for a time period where there has been about a 4% growth in population. If the “the accumulation of political power among wealthy homeowners” is driving “their natural economic…

They shouldnt live there, they should move away. When the city finds there are no fire fighters to hire, wages will increase to find them.

This article in 3 sentences: “I want to live in NY and have access to its job market and lifestyle; but I don’t want to pay what it costs to live there. Sure, I could go to Pittsburgh and have a much lower cost of living; but I don’t find the lifestyle or job market as attractive. It’s all so unfair.”

I’m sorry, HamNo, but I found this entire post to be disingenuous, because since when have you cared about sounding like a broken record?

I see your support for People of Color only goes as far as they are not right of Karl Marx.

Clearly these kids broke the first and second rules of Fight Club if the police found out.

So basically you want to see more dicks on screen. Wow. Inspiring. You truly are the Martin Luther King of peens.

The rise in popularity of Nazi colloquialism could probably be attributed to this as well, there’s no taboo if you don’t understand the circumstances involved.

Because a country basically developed a systematic, industrial method for killing primarily one group of people to the point that they kept meticulous records of what they were doing on a daily basis. Not to diminish any other genocide, like the Armenian or Rwandan genocides, but the Holocaust is on a whole other…

Absolutely it needs to stop. But they are not systematically executing people with gas chambers. Lets keep a sense of scope, shall we?

I get what you are trying to do, but they are distinctly different. This is a disservice to both things - please stop.

Whataboutism, regardless of ideology, is never the answer.

Estimates vary widely. The natives were sophisticated farmers, and we’ll never really know how many died of disease before anyone was able to enter it into the written record.

When someone approaches you on the street and says rapidly, “This is the biggest innovation in the chocolate sector since white chocolate in the late 1930s,” what is your reaction?

This is the biggest innovation in the chocolate sector since white chocolate in the late 1930s.