What? They thought the river was name Murderkill River just for sh*ts and giggles?

https://twitter.com/KatieKatro6abc/status/1278377269669564417

Isn't he a former princeling?

Mother is moeder in Middle Dutch, and river is Kille.

Stolen shamelessly from the Wiki page on that river. Tho it seems that moeder in modern times can be translated as muddy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderkill_River

Some blue tick twitterati posts about sexual racism.

Whatever happened to "love is love"?

Too politically inconvenient?

https://twitter.com/FortIronhold/status/1278705567842918400

Meanwhile, here's another blue tick arguing that miscegenation is a terrible thing. Should they meet? should someone tell her there are few "full" black kids in America? what about black men who pursue white women??

If y’all think for a second Ppl aren’t fetishizing dating black men and women - you’re delusional . If you think people aren’t fetishizing mixed kids , you’re delusional. Calling mixed kids cute and full black kids ugly is A THING. Becky be having mixed kids for a trend

https://twitter.com/STORMIMFMAYA/status/1278467245073674247

The younglings are finally learning that actions have consequences:

https://twitter.com/KeiraSavage00/status/1278583796686680064

The younglings

I have 100 quatloos that says "give it a couple of weeks and she'll have a job at a different woke company".

I heard something I thought odd, and I revisted yesterday's superhero's post to see if it came up. It didn't: did you know the person who played Vasquez from Aliens isn't Hispanic? Cancel the entire Alien franchise!! and James Cameron while we're at it. She was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also appeared in Terminator 2 as John Connor's foster mom.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001280/?ref_=tt_cl_t8

I was reading a NextDoor post about BLM earlier today and the author was talking about how awful the US is for people with skin dryer than hers.

I think the thing that bugs me about all this "Support BLM" activity is that the people jumping on the bandwagon are acting as if it's still 1954 and lynchings are a regular occurrence.

It's not 1954. We've made a great deal of progress toward unconscious equality and are making more every day. What happened to George Floyd was universally condemned.

Maybe the unrest is indicative of a positive thing - in that it indicates that our aspirations are significantly high; that any deviance from "all men are created equal" upsets us.

...about how awful the US is for people with skin dryer than hers. ~ Conan the Grammarian at July 2, 2020 12:22 PM

That's "darker than hers" - although, to be honest, dry skin can be pretty awful.

awww, that's so cute. Poor little rich boy walked away from his royal duties and is now trying to be relevant.

Yea, he will be someone to listen to when pigs fly.

He wasn't all that relevant when he was a royal.

Hmm. As it turns out, an election doesn't mean you're in charge. There's the "out" for you preferring the old two-party rape of the public to Trump!

"Institutional racism".

I'll quote Fred Reed, and dare His Former Excellence to set foot in any of these locations:

"Cities have been the heart of the intellectual and artistic in all civilizations, as for example Athens, Rome, Florence, Vienna, New York. By contrast, blacks have destroyed city after American city after American city. Trenton, Camden, Newark, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Flint, St. Louis, New Orleans, Milwaukee. At one time in all of these one could live, walk at will, send one’s children to the schools. Now, no. Violence, crime, racial attacks,and illiteracy drive the civilized to remote suburbs. This is not my culture and I see no reason to apologize for it."

The situation has been brought about and abetted by the grasping for power of the nation's governments, eager to show that they care harder about the plight of these poor people who just cannot cope. What poor people? Why, those poor people right there. {You know! nudge, nudge, wink-wink}

Ask the most ardent supporter of any program designed to serve the Underprivileged, Disadvantaged et al, such programs sometimes called "Affirmative Action", and the only sputtering you'll get is that those programs CANNOT POSSIBLY end because "those people" cannot cope. They cannot possibly compete. But, Diversity!

I'll quote Fred Reed, and dare His Former Excellence to set foot in any of these locations: "By contrast, blacks have destroyed city after American city after American city. Trenton, Camden, Newark, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Flint, St. Louis, New Orleans, Milwaukee." ~ Radwaste at July 2, 2020 9:07 PM

Fred Reed forgets the vast amount of crime and gang activity that has always existed in cities. Violence is endemically human.

New York's Five Points was a hotbed of violence and criminal activity long before the mass migration of former slaves and their descendants to the cities. Italian gangs clashed with Irish gangs. NYC's Five Points gang gave the world Al Capone. New York's criminal gang violence pre-dated the Civil War and helped spur the New York Draft Riots, as detailed in Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York, the book that inspired and informed the Scorsese movie.

Chicago's mob wars were between Bugsy Moran's Irish-dominated North Side Mob and Capone's Italian-dominated Outfit.

LA's Zoot Suit Riots involved white people attacking Hispanic youths wearing the fabric-intensive zoot suits. Since fabric was rationed, wearing one was considered "unpatriotic" - or was a convenient excuse to attack a hated minority.

East London has always been known for violence as immigrant groups generally settle there and clash with each other. Whitechapel's alleys and bolt holes gave Jack the Ripper ample cover.

The French Revolution began in the alleyways of Paris, among poor white Parisians.

I read somewhere that television helped to spur the Civil Rights movement, as blacks watched television and saw portrayals of white people with material things and wondered why they couldn't have that, too. Television brought moving pictures of Bull Connors' violence into living rooms across the country and made white people wonder why black people were being treated that way when all they wanted was to ride the bus.

In the Victorian Era, which coincided with the US's Civil War, mass market book publishing was just taking off and reading was becoming a popular hobby for both the rich and the poor. True crime novels were the rage in both the US and the UK. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is often credited with helping to incite the US Civil War. Perhaps books helped to spur the gang violence as the lower classes grew restless and rebelled against their lower status in society.

Uncle Tom's Cabin may have fanned the flames so to speak but the US civil war was all but inevitable. Plenty of people predicted it from the founding of this nation. That it happened in 1861 or a few decades later makes little difference. In the end slavery is incompatible with industrialization. The south was culturally dependent on slavery and was not willing to give it up. Without the ability to industrialize they were going to fall farther and farther economically behind the non-slave states. A situation they eventually wouldn't have been able to accept.

And yes there are a lot of disturbing parallels to current US society. We have an increasingly insular coastal society trying to enforce it's will over a much larger but poorer central area. The coastal areas have old money but they are not growing economically. The central areas are poorer but they are growing much faster.

From elsewhere:

"In a way, 'Gone with the Wind' is about the transition from an agrarian culture to the Industrial Revolution -- and it took a war to do it."

From elsewhere:

"In a way, 'Gone with the Wind' is about the transition from an agrarian culture to the Industrial Revolution -- and it took a war to do it."

From elsewhere:

"In a way, 'Gone with the Wind' is about the transition from an agrarian culture to the Industrial Revolution -- and it took a war to do it."

Sorry about that.