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The Virginia Indian Wars were not, as most people probably think, Settlers vs Indians. Most of them started because one Indian tribe attacked another Indian tribe who happened to be allied to the English, so when said tribe called up its allies it included the English colonists, and the English...

California also historically lacked exceptions for near age relationships. In most other States that have age of consent laws at 18, there are explicit exceptions built in for near age relationships, usually two to three years IIRC. As noted, California tends to take a myopic view of the world...

Between this and guns we'll make a right winger of you yet. :P

If you've watched enough of his content you'd know that Josh is exactly the type of person they'd try and cancel in a heartbeat, and they HAVE tried cancelling him IIRC. He's former military, explicitly a devout Christian, and has mentioned more than once growing up in conservative Christian...

His focus on personal responsibility, his love of the middle class traditional family values (seriously, both the Cosby Show and much of his standup was based upon poking loving fun at family antics), and his general persona got him called "America's Dad" back at the height of the Cosby Show in...

I'm not denying that, but people more remember the anti-DnD Jack Chick comic, which, let's be honest, likely saw very limited distribution, than they remember the 60 Minutes Special. Note, even in the Wiki I linked, the 60 minutes special is given a handful of sentences, compared to the various...

The Satanic Panic and especially the DnD scare of the 80s didn't originate with the religious. It originated with the mainstream media and Hollywood. One of the biggest coups the media has ever pulled is managing to make people forget their own involvement in the moral panics while shifting...

OK, so this is more of a "personal way my mind works" thing than an ideological one? I can get that, negative emotional experiences brought up by related reminders can be quite rough to have to deal with, and I'd be lying if I said I'd not made changes in my life based on similar things.

This is something I always found a bit strange... why would accusations, or even proven actions, impact your enjoyment of a work? All humans are flawed and have likely done something someone somewhere disapproves of, sometimes even very serious things. Why should your enjoyment of a creative...