1. The Indians had "the last laugh" in regards to the Trail of Tears. This was because there turned out to be oil under the reservation that the US government marched them forcibly to. I am grateful that someone finally showed me the light and explained that winding up with oil under the land that some assholes who showed up one day and decided to pee all over your shit and treat you like you were the invaders while gifting you with a variety of diseases and endemic social problems forced you to relocate you and your families' lives to is TOTALLY one for the win column.
2. The Japanese Internment Camps are about the same as the Trail of Tears. This provides a handy example of the concept that anything bad that happens to minorities is about the same as any other bad thing that happens to minorities.
Nuggets of wisdom from last week...
1. The Metro in DC does not go to poor parts of the city. All this time, I had been laboring under the delusion that since such a shitload of DC is in fact poor, Metro went everywhere, including poor places, more or less as dictated by the laws of probabilty, except for those damn people in Georgetown, who took themselves out of the equation by refusing to have a Metro stop since Metro "introduces the criminal element" into neighborhoods.
2. Title IX is the bestest thing that has ever happened to women and sports because it installed a series of social and civil rules allowing women to pay sports. Thankfully, I'll no longer have to worry about the consequential ass-rape that men's sports have been taking despite the fact that football and men's basketball bring in more money than pretty much any other sports ever and thus get punished for being successful, and, you know, moneymakers.
I have been trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt but frankly it's almost Thanksgiving break and my patience is wearing painfully thin.
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