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[nickiknack]

I still hate the fact that jobs that are considered "social work", which are dominated by women are paid shit wages(especially if it something like taking care of the Elderly).

[I am lizard]

Yeah, about the "wage gap":

http://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/jul/15/politifact-sheet-gender-pay-gap/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/04/09/president-obamas-persistent-77-cent-claim-on-the-wage-gap-gets-a-new-pinocchio-rating/

So women still get less money than men?

[Ultimate Paragon]

Yeah, about the "wage gap":

http://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/jul/15/politifact-sheet-gender-pay-gap/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/04/09/president-obamas-persistent-77-cent-claim-on-the-wage-gap-gets-a-new-pinocchio-rating/

So women still get less money than men?

Generally, yes.  But it's a lot more complicated than the narrative would have you believe.

[I am lizard]

[Veras]

What do I want you to do?  I want you to stop trying to whitewash your history.

In the history of any society, there will be things that you can be proud of and things that you should be ashamed of.  Don't pretend that the bad things didn't happen, or worse, rewrite the narrative so that slavery and genocide, some of the worst atrocities that one group of humans has ever inflicted upon another, somehow become a point of pride.  You don't have to be "ashamed of your heritage," but you must acknowledge that your ancestors and their neighbors did some shitty things.  Recognize that you, personally, benefit from many of these things; while other people, especially minorities and the poor, still suffer as a direct consequence of them.  Finally, and this is the important part, stop blocking attempts to rectify this injustice.

[Barbarella]

What do I want you to do?  I want you to stop trying to whitewash your history.

In the history of any society, there will be things that you can be proud of and things that you should be ashamed of.  Don't pretend that the bad things didn't happen, or worse, rewrite the narrative so that slavery and genocide, some of the worst atrocities that one group of humans has ever inflicted upon another, somehow become a point of pride.  You don't have to be "ashamed of your heritage," but you must acknowledge that your ancestors and their neighbors did some shitty things.  Recognize that you, personally, benefit from many of these things; while other people, especially minorities and the poor, still suffer as a direct consequence of them.  Finally, and this is the important part, stop blocking attempts to rectify this injustice.

Exactly! I'm proud of being mostly Italian but I still acknowledge my ancestral homeland giving the world The Medicis, The Mafia & Mussolini. All nations and ethnicities have good & bad in them.

There's modest, sensible pride....and then there's crazy Jingoist, Nationalist pride. Bigots have the latter.

[Barbarella]

What do I want you to do?  I want you to stop trying to whitewash your history.

In the history of any society, there will be things that you can be proud of and things that you should be ashamed of.  Don't pretend that the bad things didn't happen, or worse, rewrite the narrative so that slavery and genocide, some of the worst atrocities that one group of humans has ever inflicted upon another, somehow become a point of pride.  You don't have to be "ashamed of your heritage," but you must acknowledge that your ancestors and their neighbors did some shitty things.  Recognize that you, personally, benefit from many of these things; while other people, especially minorities and the poor, still suffer as a direct consequence of them.  Finally, and this is the important part, stop blocking attempts to rectify this injustice.

I remember some bigoted W.S. claptrap trying to refute the list of black inventors and innovators. However, I couldn't find a reasonable refutation of THAT! I tried looking for the latter but kept getting the former. Somebody surely must've written the latter somewhere! *ARGH!*

[Ultimate Paragon]

[Barbarella]

You know, I would love to take every bigot and crappy bigot cartoonist and ship them to Pluto!

Maybe someone should do a spoof of these things but with bigots as the weirdly-rendered hate-objects.

[I am lizard]

[Art Vandelay]

Well, holocaust denial implications aside, that is indeed correct. Someone who's lived in America since 1932 and claims to be a holocaust survivor is almost certainly full of shit.

[Even Then]

She... could've been visiting family? Left something back home?

[Art Vandelay]

The holocaust didn't actually kick off until after the US entered WWII, so heading back for a quick visit wouldn't exactly be an option.

[Ultimate Paragon]

The holocaust didn't actually kick off until after the US entered WWII, so heading back for a quick visit wouldn't exactly be an option.

It's true the industrialized gassing didn't start until 1942, but the Germans were trying to kill the Jews before that.  Herding them into ghettos and letting disease take its toll, working them to death in labor camps, or just murdering them with death squads were all methods used.  Furthermore, even before the Wannsee Conference, gas vans were used to kill Jews.

[Art Vandelay]

Fair point.