Misandrist Duck posted:

Not to interrupt Thatcher Day, but Brad Paisley and LL Cool J put out a song called [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC6Ev5o5r7Y"]Accidental Racist[/url] confederate apologia and it is exactly what you'd expect.

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That wrenching scene backstage at the slave auction was the second of two episodes we watched about how the Revolutionary period affected the lives of African-Americans in Williamsburg, a city where black people, both free and enslaved, made up more than half the population in the 1770s. Later that day, we watched the second of two scenes about American Indians, in which warriors from the Chillicothe Shawnee people, who are holding the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone as a hostage, engage in a failed parley with an officer from George Washington’s Continental Army. The Shawnee men leave the gathering vowing to wage war against the perfidious “long knives,” or white American settlers, for control of the Ohio Valley, although they understand that the outcome might well be the destruction of their people.

These startling and even confrontational vignettes – part of a growing and evolving street-theater program called “Revolutionary City,” which explores the social conflict of the Revolutionary era from a variety of perspectives — are not isolated events. Over the last three decades, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a nonprofit originally envisioned and endowed by John D. Rockefeller in the 1920s, has undergone a gradual but ambitious reinvention, fueled partly by changing cultural and social realities but also by a wealth of new historical research into the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. This conceptual reimagining, which has involved considerable collaboration with academic historians, seems to have accelerated rapidly since “Revolutionary City” was first introduced in 2006. (The American Indian programming we saw was introduced just two years ago.) Once concerned almost entirely with historical preservation, the foundation now sees its primary mission as “citizen education,” using “historically authentic stories” to illuminate contemporary issues. To put it another way, nearly the whole place feels like a teachable moment, from the time you leave the visitors center over a footbridge that nominally takes you backward into the past. (“1954: You tolerate segregated schools,” reads one inset in the bridge. “1920: You accept that women cannot vote or own property,” reads the next.)

SimianNinja posted:

Gonna briefly interrupt the worldwide dance on a horrible harpy's grave for a second:

SimianNinja posted:

Gonna briefly interrupt the worldwide dance on a horrible harpy's grave for a second:

FreudianSlippers posted:

Framsóknarflokkurinn (Progressive Party) X-B
Leader: Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Ideology: Centrism/Populism/Cronyism. Vaguely agrarian, very anti-EU.
General info: One of the oldest parties. In the late 20th century it transformed from a slightly left-leaning agrarian farmer's political movement to a party mostly concerned with getting it's leaders as rich and powerful as possible. Half of the government that created the corrupt privatized banking system that totally collapsed at the first sign of recession. Because of this they lost almost all of their supporters in the last election but have somehow manged to crawl back to being one of the most popular parties because they have promised to make everyone's debt disappear. Presumably by putting a sheet over it, saying "abra-kadabra" and making some dramatic hand gestures.

GirlBones posted:

Having lived in Arizona almost all my life, this video represents the entirety of my knowledge of the UK during Thatcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPMCRcVDhA

SkySteak posted:

ekuNNN posted:

Putin was visiting Amsterdam today:

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

The new poster for The Lone Ranger is out:


How the hell is blackface still basically alive and well in 2013?

Admiral Bosch posted:

Possibly because that's not a black character, and Depp has American Indian ancestry?

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I guess I have some Native American somewhere down the line. My great grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian.

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One could argue that it is counter-productive to combat whitewashed stereotypes of Native Americans by dressing a white man up as another white man's fictional representation of a Native American—a Native American who, incidentally, appears literally whitewashed—but that is to miss the point which is this:

Johnny Depp is very enigmatic and charming.

Here are the very Johnny Depp things he said about that striking face paint:

"The stripes down the face and across the eyes … it seemed to me like you could almost see the separate sections of the individual, if you know what I mean…There's this very wise quarter, a very tortured and hurt section, an angry and rageful section, and a very understanding and unique side."

A Native American who is wise, angry, and understanding.

You combat those sterotypes, kemo sabe.

Admiral Bosch posted:

Possibly because that's not a black character, and Depp has American Indian ancestry?

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Tonto’s treatment especially bugged him because Depp had always been told his family was part Indian. “I guess I have some Native American somewhere down the line,” he says. “My great grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian. Makes sense in terms of coming from Kentucky, which is rife with Cherokee and Creek.”

Apotheosis posted:

The way I see it, if you're pissing someone off to the point where they drop on a passive-aggressive red text, you must be doing something right!

And now, radical Islam:

ekuNNN posted:

It's why I love my American flag avatar

generative grammer posted:

How is it that all the Nordic centrist/agrarian parties seem to be hilariously corrupt?

Communism, Socialism
Danger ahead - the Agrarian League will save us

boom boom boom posted:

Yeah, they announced that a couple years ago. It is now extinct, but it was also then extinct. And there's other black rhinos so similar you basically need a genetic test to tell them apart which are not yet extinct.

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

There was a student who went on a stabbing spree in a Texas school so get ready for a bunch of smug Facebook posts on your wall about how we should have KNIFE control now, hmmmm!!?

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

There was a student who went on a stabbing spree in a Texas school so get ready for a bunch of smug Facebook posts on your wall about how we should have KNIFE control now, hmmmm!!?

az jan jananam posted:

The Western Black Rhino is now extinct.

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Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has described comments made by Baroness Thatcher as "unabashedly racist".

In a conversation with her "in her retirement", Mr Carr said the former UK prime minister had warned Australia against Asian immigration.

She said "if we allowed too much of it we'd see the natives of the land, the European settlers, overtaken by migrants", he said

He said he had been "astonished" at the comments by Lady Thatcher, which were made while his Malaysian-born wife Helena was "standing not far away" but was "fortunately out of earshot".

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"I couldn't believe it. It reminded me that despite, yes, her greatness on those big questions, the role of the state, the evil nature of the Communist totalitarianism, there was an old-fashioned quality to her that was entirely out of touch and probably explained why her party removed her in the early 90s."

He went on to recall: "I remember one thing she said as part of that conversation, she said: 'You will end up like Fiji.' She said: 'I like Sydney but you can't allow the migrants' - and in context she meant Asian migration - 'to take over, otherwise you will end up like Fiji where the Indian migrants have taken over.'

"I was so astonished I don't think I could think of an appropriate reply."

Luminous Cow posted:

More extinct animals

Thylacine

Tasmanian Tiger

Vladimir Vladimirovich posted:

"Regarding this performance, I liked it," grinned Putin at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, adding that it had helped to promote the trade fair though he suggested that the security men could have been "gentler".

"I did not catch what they were shouting, I did not even see if they were blondes, brunettes or chestnut-haired ... I don't see anything terrible in (the protest), though I think ... it is better to be dressed if one wants to discuss political matters."

Molotov Yogurt posted:

The Korean education system is awful and soul crushing.