Depends. Am I in Colorado or Tel Aviv?
Very strange post.
You seem determined to convince yourself that slavery no longer exists.
Also I find it a little bizarre that you think that trying to help people who ARE ALIVE RIGHT THIS INSTANT to escape slavery, is some sort of convoluted tactic being used for reasons that would appear to be only in your head.
Try and find a little compassion for those who are suffering, instead of playing politics with other peoples lives.
Because it doesn’t. Kidnap victims exist. Slavery is outlawed everywhere. Incidentally, your figure of 27 million people in bondage would not be the most slaves in history. Sixty percent of people in Europe were not free in the middle ages, plus the Americas, China, India, etc.
you are not trying to help anyone, troll. Start another thread; those people have nothing to do with slavery. Anyway, I’m done with you.
When I was in eighth-grade English, we were diagramming sentences (do they do that anymore?) and one of the sentences concerned “woolly-headed natives” I thought that was odd and racist, and that was in the 60’s.
Slavery is illegal, ergo it doesn’t exist. Gotcha. If only we could do the same thing with murder, rape, incest…hey, not to mention your own example, kidnapping! Maybe we should pass a bill.
That’s one of those things like “niggardly” that looks racist but isn’t. Woolly-headed refers to having a head stuffed with wool (i.e., stupid) rather than to hair.
“Woolly-headed” also literally means having hair that is wool-like in quality.
Under either definition, the usage is eyebrow-raising for more modern sensibilities.
No, you would have to see the context. The sentence was about the activities of wild savages, as in the jungle.
“2. If it takes five seconds to jump down and three seconds to turn around…”
There’s no way to make elementary math questions about slavery anything other than callous.
Wow. I’ve probably seen Elf more than a dozen times, and I like to see myself as just shy of a bleeding heart liberal… and I never, ever made any especially negative connection to “cotton headed ninny muggins”. I certainly never raised any eyebrows over it.
It’s not a matter of remaining “fixated on it” to the exclusion of all else. But in a nation where slavery was an incredibly important social and economic institution for so long, and where the attitudes and beliefs that sustained that institution persisted in ways that contributed to long-standing violence, discrimination, and inequality, it is important to ensure that it remains a part of our historical understanding.
Nor is it the case, as you so stupidly imply, that remembering and understanding slavery need preclude us all “getting along together.” In fact, remembering and understanding can be part of that process, and to the extent that racial tensions still exist in parts of the country, they can often be attributed to the presence of people who lack any historical consciousness at all regarding slavery and its consequences for American society.
Huh? No, it’s something that probably is most in debt to TV depictions of racial issues, where racism is a simply a matter of evil people (Sheriff Billy Bob Redneck, etc.) vs. noble heroes. The reality isn’t so simple, and you don’t have to “be racist” to do and say racist things. It’s not about your personal intentions or good will.
Racism is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.
No, that’s duct tape. (It has a Light Side and a Dark Side.)
We’ve always got the choice to help those are really slaves.
But we’re not.
What have you done about it today other than hijack this thread?
Sure enough, some on-line dictionaries do give both definitions. Ignorance fought
This came up many, many years ago when I was in college and the college president used the term in the sense of muddled thinking. It caused quite a stir as people thought he was referring to nappy hair
No, it’s a trick question. It’s posed as simple arithmetic but in reality it’s calculus. The lynch mobs will be drinking 198 proof moonshine which will decrease their lynching efficiency geometrically as the evening progresses…
Anyone remember the L. A. Math Proficiency Test, and how butthurt people were when it came out back in the 90s?
Based on your use of the term “butthurt,” would it be valid to conclude that you saw no problem with that test?
Didn’t see any, and couldn’t solve any…