With yesterday's Sun mention, YesButNoButYes is gaining a reputation for informative, well-researched posts on trivial-but-fascinating subjects.
So let me take you in the other direction. Poorly researched entries on topics bland and historical. I'll play the role of substitute middle school history teacher; you pretend to listen while scrolling through the porn and comic book posts.
Did Woodrow Wilson hate all black people? I have no idea. But he's lucky he presided over this great nation before the birth of network television and Kanye West. On February 18, 1915, Wilson gathered his cabinet for a special screening of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.
Here's a summary of the film: "In its explicitly caricaturist presentation of the KKK as heroes and Southern blacks as villains and violent rapists and threats to the social order, Birth of a Nation appealed to white Americans who subscribed to the mythic, romantic view of the Old Plantation South."
Wilson's review: The film 'is like writing history with lightning,' he remarked, adding, 'it is all so terribly true.'
That's today's lesson. Upcoming lecture topics include the 1976 Olympics and Joe Namath's ties to organized gambling.
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Well, there's no real untruths here. Most people either hate/dislike/stay away from most "minorities." It's a simple system of indoctrination through peer pressure (you're dating/sitting next to/living within 50 bloks of WHAT) and social mores (interracial dating bad, KKK good).
After living for many years with racist pricks, I figure I could start getting a few fired from their jobs, etc. by spreading lies about them.
After a while, it loses it's flavor, but I still have fun!
I think the YesBut community needs to hear some stories about the folks you've gotten fired.
Come on, it's the holidays.
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