AND we beat the turds out of Cornwallis. So there.

Also, while I have my pedant glasses on, 1840 is too early for the attitudes you reference. Indeed, pre-famine Irish assimilated very well indeed. 1850, maybe.

I think the Irish in fact integrated very well.

So horrible. This post, I mean. What in the name of Sheen is the takeaway? That daycare will kill your kid (this daycare didn’t, AFAWK)? That parents need limitless parental leave? Ha ha: no.

It's like you're inside my head.

Because he is fat, yes.

People didn’t used to be politically correct? How can that be?

Minority students are not facing anything like serious discrimination, but they are reacting with ten times the anger that their parents and grandparents showed when they (successfully) fought Jim Crow and for civil rights. We've come so far, now black privileged millennials are just as whiny and self-absorbed as…

You should read it again.

But you’re talking about people making shrill and useless demands who are, it must be said again, among the most privileged humans who have ever lived. And I don’t see any empathy at all coming from their direction. Not one shred.

It will benefit no one, in short run or long.

Their experience isn't trivial, it doesn't rise to that level. In some cases, it is actually imaginary. You want to know something that was named after a slave owner? WASHINGTON MOTHERFUCKING DC. That's the unfortunate legacy of our Founders, and can never be erased.

Wow, moved to tears here myself. Children of extraordinary privilege weeping about other children who have (or are perceived to have) yet more privilege. Why talk about Paris or Syria when we have micro-aggressions to attend to?

Most college athletes also get little to no money for athletic scholarships. Did you yourself, perhaps, major in sports memorabilia marketing?

Isis is in the comments section? Alert the Feds.

...so little time...

On the off chance there's a black person reading Deadspin, can you please educate this ignorant white man: why would Dez have a problem with another black man using the N word? Does Dez not use it himself? I thought it was allowed in casual conversation...

Ah, asked and answered, I see. Vikes? Really?

AND HIS NECKBEARD O DEAR GOD HIS NECKBEARD!!!!!!!!!!!