"Trump Jr. also made derogatory remarks about the amount of Black families that have moved into the Manhattan area of New York, claiming it is starting to look like Harlem, an area of the city with a historically higher Black population.
"I hear the theme song of the Jeffersons playing in the background," Trump Jr. said, in reference to the popular CBS sitcom that ran between 1975 and 1985."
Classified documents that Trump allegedly stole included details about U.S. defense and weapons capabilities, as well as information about nuclear programs. I don't want to hear another word about "law & order" from Republicans ever again.
In April 1832, the Mexican government closed a loophole allowing settlers to reclassify their human chattel as indentured servants. This finally outlawed slavery, full stop.
For Stephen Austin, this was the last straw. “Texas must be a slave country,” he wrote a friend, “circumstances and unavoidable necessity compels it.”
And in the "As if we needed more proof Republicans are the problem" file...
«“If they want to bring up that it was about #slavery, or say that the #Alamo defenders were #racist, or anything like that, they need to take their rear ends over the state border and get the hell out of #Texas,” said Brandon Burkhart, president of the This is Freedom Texas Force, a #conservative group that held an armed protest last year in Alamo Plaza.»
We are experiencing fascism, and widespread apathy and tolerance for violence from the majority. Garda leadership and politicians are distracting attention from the real problem.
Ok, I was never a football fan. Living in Brazil without being that was not easy. I remember going to work and feeling like an alien when colleagues started to talk about the weekend games.
That said, I'll never understand how people can prioritize the love for a team over certain values like inclusion, respect and tolerance.
The #racist outburst in Spain against a black Brazilian player is one example. The agenda to exclude trans players is another.
Listening to the BBC R4 coverage of the #G7 at #Hiroshima, I was struck at how the city is presented as a symbol of the costs/horrors of war, and was mentioned as the site of the first #nuclear explosion (other than tests we must presume), but this was treated as if the bomb had appeared from nowhere;
we may all know this, but there is I think a need to acknowledge it was the #Americans who dropped the two Nbombs on Japan (and that subsequent analysis confirmed a #racist element to their use)!
Same TX Gov Abbott who vowed to quickly pardon the self-avowed #racist convicted of murder for driving his car into a gathering of Black Lives Matter protestors and shooting one of them to death
Written by veteran journalist John Rydell two years ago, this piece reflecting on #Baltimore's #racist#history remains a compelling and relevant read today, as much of the nation takes active steps backward: The Baltimore Riot, 160 Years Later: Shades of the Capitol Insurrection - Maryland Matters
GOP Gov. Greg Abbott Ripped For 'Despicable' Characterization Of Mass Shooting Victims
Pro-gun Abbott described the victims, who were all from Honduras as “illegal immigrants,” a term considered dehumanizing.
“Star Trek” actor George Takei led the chorus of criticism of Abbott
“This is despicable,” he wrote. “I would have thought bringing up the immigration status of the innocent victims of this senseless violence would be beneath even you. But I was wrong”
When you and your family have been slaughtered with an assault rifle but the Republican governor of Texas wants to make a little #racist peepee on your grave. #GOP#politics#guns#crime
Bill Maher is a racist and misogynistic piece of garbage. He openly attacks Muslims and is clearly an anti-Black racist. He may date and sleep with Black women but if you think that doesn’t make him an anti-Black racist THINK AGAIN. And stop watching his show every week.
...dominating perspectives can never be the same, nor should they, in a "global market place of ideas".
I learned this month that the, in most countries in continental #Europe completely innocuous term #Eskimo is strongly #racist for the #Inuits. A #FirstNation member would hardly ever call itself a #NativeAmerican, as in the #US, though the latter is not offensive, just...
So, in conclusion, it is hardly possible to express things in a completely inoffensive way for everyone.
That said, while I am quite willing to learn and try to avoid terms considered #racist in a certain group, this willingness ends where such requests collide with my understanding of language and/or is made in a rude or...
"That said, while I am quite willing to learn and try to avoid terms considered #racist in a certain group, this willingness ends where such requests collide with my understanding of language and/or is made in a rude or..."
In your own words your willingness to avoid certain terms has a limit based on your understanding of language (or if someone hurts your feelings, apparently), so it's exactly what you said.