Sarmyth

Probably because several of these things are legal rights throughout the US for many people. In California you get 24 hours paid sick leave minimum per year. Usually more based on hours worked.

PTO or vacation is pretty ubiquitous. I had 4 weeks of PTO a year working at a non-union grocery store. It's not a legal requirement though, so it fair critique.

The first 2 years of college is free in some states and heavily subsidized through grants/financial aid depending on your income. It's not free, but it's not completely free in most of the EU either.

US Healthcare is an obvious travesty. It's more annoying that Medicare you gain access to in retirement is actually pretty good, so we could be better but just choose not to.

Also, I got 4 weeks paid family leave from the government and from my job with the birth of my child. It's not alot but its not nothing.

There are lots of things wrong in the US but the graph doesn't give a single measurement, it's basically checkboxes that aren't accurate for most Americans, as our largest population centers tend to have socialist protections/benefits codified. It's fairly accurate on a federal level though.

Next time there's an oil spill it'll be a "Gulf of Mexico" instead of "Gulf of America" problem I bet.😆

You've been infected by racism towards Mexico without even noticing. The migrant workers aren't all at risk of starvation or being murdered. There's just a better opportunity in the US. It's just a better life, not often so dire as you are making it out to be.

People make moves all the time for opportunity. Nothing special here. It's not the hellscape you are imagining for these millions of people.

You know what... that math checks out. Approved!

Oh then read the Wikipedia page you referenced. It actually gives examples supporting my statement.

And once again, I am not saying it isn't racist today or that people weren't racist back then or that the word is OK today or any of the other weird things people keep acting like I said.

I lost my patience with people being willfully ignorant a while ago. I just thought it was an interesting moment in time to see how language evolved. Not terribly dissimilar to many other terms people used to use that later morphed into slurs.

I'm not either. But there's a difference between isn't and wasn't. But again, you don't care. I'm still not defending racism or racists or racists using the term as a slur later. Ive been super clear. I was just providing historical context.

"at the world's inception" should have clued you in on the jest...

Historically, this is an indicator that Mike DeWine is himself involved in some degenerate acts that he's ashamed of, and doesn't want anyone to be able to talk about. Keep an eye out for any "protect the children" rhetoric from this one. ¤.¤

I just disagree. We are equally dense at worst. I've already expressed people were racist and had slurs that they used. Im not ignoring that or unaware of it or trying to gloss over that. This just wasn't one of them for a long stretch of time.

You won't believe it because you just don't believe it. That's you being dense. You refuse to accept the reality I've witnessed. Terms weren't used with equal intent globally throughout history. How a term was used in Caldwell Idaho in 1930 is not how it was used in Pennsylvania at the same time, despite them both being America and the people involved all being American.

I think anywhere we still use butter is still great. It's where we replaced it with the "various hydrogenated oils of mysterious origin" that we lost our way. Once we could no longer believe it wasn't butter, we lost the plot.