Tag: history
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Anti-Vaxers and Racists Obsession with Purity
From a discussion about this video of a parent saying they don’t care if anybody else’s kids get sick: “There is a strange and terrifying human obsession with “purity,” and it manifests itself in so many different forms: For the anti-vaccination brigade, it’s the delusion that an immune system free of “toxins” will recognize and […]
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Why Hitler Was Worse Than Stalin
“What would each leader have done, had they the unfettered means to do so?”
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The Cicero Race Riot of 1951
In 1951, 4000 white protesters attacked a building a black couple was going to move into.
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How Christian Monks Saved Beowulf
“This point cannot be stressed enough: the pagans did not write things down.”
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Chinese Seniors and Life After Deng Xiaoping
“In two decades you go from being excited about your first Panasonic radio to cynically comparing the benefits of an Audi vs. a BMW.”
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Racism, History and The Confederate Flag
“Symbols come prepackaged with the history that created them.”
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The History of Whiteness Is The History of Exclusion
“For whiteness to maintain its superiority, membership had to be strictly controlled.”
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A Brief History of Art
And then DuChamp goes “Oh you like that huh? how about this upside down urinal”.
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54-Year Old's Life Decade by Decade
“Re-evaluating my next 10-15 years, concentrating more on my children getting a decent start than anything else.”
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Archduke Ferdinand's Assassination Was a Do-Over
“On June 28th, 1914, Gavrilo Princip’s group “The Black Hand” fucked up the first time when it came time to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. His colleague was to throw a grenade under the carriage as the Archduke and his wife passed over. The grenade delayed and blew up as the next car came […]