(Part 3) Best products from r/ShitAmericansSay

Look, I am sure you are a great person. And if we had the time and occasion, we could sit down over a beer, bourbon, tea, or whatever and I could walk you throught the argument for the 2nd. Amndement and the rights of free persons. And like many of my friends, family and colleagues from Europe and Asia, by the time our discussion concludes, you would have a far greater understanding of the issues at play. But let us be honest, neither you or I have the time to do that in this medium. And frankly, do you really think you will pursuade me? Maybe you could. Maybe, after decades of research and debate on this very topic; you would find a logic hole so large in my argument (and at the same time so completely hidden) that it totally collapsed. But I am confident that you would not and could not. Thank you for your concern but worry about your own country. We will worry about our's.

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I think we need an SaS book club. We could start with the one above, this one and this one. I'd recommend stopping after that to retain any sanity you may have.

Nazi Germany actually sent lawyers to the United States to learn about the racist legal system in the US to help them create their own. When they returned other Nazis didn't believe some of the laws could be so racist like anti miscegenation laws.

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/dp/0691172420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505057658&sr=8-1&keywords=hitler%27s+american+model

The 16th century is when the triangle trade of using Africa as a source of slaves in the American colonies, paid for by selling plantation products to Europe, started to take off. They needed to replace the increasingly hard to capture Native Americans as a source of slaves. It was European attitudes toward race (and religion) that made both the indigenous Americans and Africans acceptable sources of slaves where white Christians were not. Sure the Scramble for Africa was a way off yet but that was the second round of European colonialism. The first round of colonialism was well underway by then. So if some Europeans were using racial caricatures as part of a cultural celebration, and at the same time some Europeans were using them to justify genocide and slavery of certain races, I'd want to take a more careful look at the semiotics of those cultural celebrations.

I was choosing my words carefully when I said “European blackface practices”—being mindful of my last quoted section asserting the practice of Zwarte Piet changed in the 19th century à la blackface iconography. Like I said: shared history of repeated cross-pollination. American minstrel shows were neither the beginning, nor the end, of Western cultural racist caricature. But they were a part of it, and Europe was a sibling to them. To wit:

Here's another Wikipedia link of recent European blackface. The article is called 'Negermusik'. Look at that poster and tell me some more tall tales. If Dreikönigsfest is part of a German tradition, so was Entartete Musik. In Postwar Tony Judt wrote:

> [T]he rigorous investigation and interrogation of Europe’s competing pasts—and the place occupied by those pasts in Europeans’ collective sense of themselves—has been one of the unsung achievements and sources of European unity in recent decades. It is, however, an achievement that will surely lapse unless ceaselessly renewed. Europe’s barbarous recent history, the dark ‘other’ against which post-war Europe was laboriously constructed, is already beyond recall for young Europeans.

> Within a generation the memorials and museums will be gathering dust—visited, like the battlefields of the Western Front today, only by aficionados and relatives. If in years to come we are to remember why it seemed so important to build a certain sort of Europe out of the crematoria of Auschwitz, only history can help us. The new Europe, bound together by the signs and symbols of its terrible past, is a remarkable accomplishment; but it remains forever mortgaged to that past. If Europeans are to maintain this vital link—if Europe’s past is to continue to furnish Europe’s present with admonitory meaning and moral purpose—then it will have to be taught afresh with each passing generation. ‘European Union’ may be a response to history, but it can never be a substitute.

More reading:

• “As a professor of history, I use it [Black Folk Here and There: An Essoy in History and Anthropology, Vol. 1] as the best introduction to the global problems of race and racism left behind by modern slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.”
  
• “The pied noir would habitually tutoyer any Muslim—a form of speech reserved for intimates, domestics or animals—and was outraged were it ever suggested that this might be a manifestation of racism.” In I Might Be Charlie by Ta-Nehisi Coates—“All nations like to begin the story with the chapter that most advantages them.”
  

I have been meaning to read that after watching some Howard Zinn lectures, but I have to finish Noam Chomsky's Who Rules the World? first :P

However, I disagree with your point that it's just history Republicans don't want you to know about, as this poor education practice happens under both corrupt parties.

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Someone wrote a book in the 60s about it, so it's basically tradition at this point.

https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170



https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201506/anti-intellectualism-is-killing-america

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B06X8Z2VSJ

There's also this from a recent SAS post.

hmmmm...

Only if you use the exact same flag as pillowcase.

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https://www.amazon.com/Lock-alarm-clock-target-creative/dp/B00A49UZQG

Isn't it just a regular Zippo with a 13 dollar insert?. Or do you mean you'd been looking for that particular design?

That’s accurate. Equality isn’t really conducive to capitalism (or conservative theocracy). As long as there’s division amongst genders, companies can make gendered products and make more money, usually charging more for the “lady” version.

Check out the questions and reviews on this.

in the last few years most places in the UK switched to safety box openers instead of these box cutters.

Most indeededly

It's written on the cover

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> Okay, but how much Irish?

Sorry to rain on your parade here, but you can test yourself. I had my DNA analysed by 23andme for funsies and this is my genetic makeup.

There's a book on this subject called "Blood of the Isles" which talks about how a professor make a genetic map of the British isles.