The intelligence and psych exams are in place to screen out intelligent, free-thinking individuals and fill the force with obedient attack dogs instead.

Those 4K cameras are scary clear. The still captures are terrifying in their ability to literally stop reality for examination. It’s like the intense clarity of your subconscious mind under hypnosis versus what you can actually recall when asked

Cause them to crash. That’s what.

I think I love you.

Really hoping this hope for sarcasm is sarcasm. The original was quite obviously sarcasm.

Really hoping this is sarcasm

I got a kayak for Christmas. I’m totally paddling to the North Pole.

“Seepage from behind the dam” well said. And all too true about hiding America’s ugly past so we can more easily avoid the ugly present.

My own mother used it recently (first I had heard it!) and she was born in the 60s - so, no doubt it's still around.

I remember seeing this expression exactly once, in a Stephen King book. The Stand? I want to say Larry says it to his mother, while he is staying with her in NYC?

I saw it when I was a kid, watching on television. I viewed it as mostly a sci-fi movie (the last man on earth, etc.). It, of course, took years before I saw it for the movie it really was.

Fantastic writing. My own life is an example of the “whitewashing” process — I’m white, born and raised in Alabama, and I discovered this expression for the first time ever here, in a Jezebel article.

My parents couldn’t get a FHA loan in the 70s. Things continued to change int he eighties, believe it or not.

My mother was born in 1951, and she said this all the time when I was growing up. It was her stock response anytime someone expressed displeasure with her actions or choices. Of course, she is still a galloping racist, but my point is that the phrase did not die as fast and quiet as scholars may believe.

This is what I appreciated about this article too. To label yourself specifically “white” when white was the default and universal value means you made the conscious decision to racialize yourself. You could only do that in opposition to black people, and in doing so you acknowledged that blacks had a rough deal. You…

Really interesting piece. I’d never heard the (staggeringly and blithely fucked-up) phrase before now, so it’s great to get a crash course in the history of it.

And I HAVE to see The World, the Flesh, and the Devil. Sounds awesome.

I love this expression and honestly thought no one under 60 or a lover of old movies, would understand it.

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