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Dorothy12 hr ago

I’m an American, so I don’t have the same emotional investment in these two losers that the British do, which has some advantages, I thought the Sussex saga would also begin to fade away (as it should).

Your history and ours are forever intertwined, for better and for worse, and the worst aspect of it has always been the totally unwarranted idea that white people are somehow superior to those with darker complexions. How and why this mindset came about, I’m not enough of a scholar to be able to say, but it did, and it’s still with us (or, rather, some of us). Confronting our past racist feelings and behavior is absolutely necessary if we’re to eliminate them, and denying that we had empire building, conquest of foreign lands and peoples, forcing people to change their religion or philosophies, and other such behavior isn’t going to get us anywhere.

Modern-day Germany is still trying to come to grips with the horrors of the Holocaust, and it hasn’t been easy. Neo-Nazis are still skulking around the fringes there (and here) and it’s a constant battle to keep them at bay (like trying to rid your home of cockroaches). It’s exhausting, and we’re all tired of it, it we can’t let our guard down and we can’t stop fighting the good fight.

As for the Markles, for what it’s worth, I see him as a not-too-bright very rich kid who’s been coddled his entire life (we have lots of those here, too, only they don’t live in palaces or have noble titles). I recognize the type. Younger sibling who’s never going to measure up to the older one, always #2 in terms of pretty much everything in his own mind, full of (totally undeserved) entitlement, and angry at the world for his lot in life (even though most of us would kill to be born into such enormous wealth).

If Harry were a different kind of man, he’d have acknowledge that he was born on third base and use that position to do some good in the world, instead of brooding over not having been born first. He could’ve been born in a cardboard shack in Mumbai just as easily, so his “royal” birth was sheer luck. He did nothing to earn it, he’s done nothing to deserve it. Again, I’ve seen that attitude time and again, though, because the kid was never properly taught when he was young. It’s the parents’ fault and it’s too late now for PC to undo the damage he’s caused. He, too, was damaged goods when he married Diana, and blame can be placed going backwards through the generations. Happens all the time.

I’m not a psychiatrist, but I do agree with the armchair diagnosis of narcissistic sociopath that’s been suggested for MM. She’s also a type we see often, only I have to say I see it more in kids born into wealth rather than to middle-class parents. I think it’s hopeless to try to do anything with her other than step back, turn around, and run. Don’t blame it on her being American, though - it’s really getting tiresome having her atrocious behavior held up as “American.”

Trust me, no one over here pays them any mind other than media flacks and birdbrain fame whores who hang onto celebrity gossip like life preservers to try to make themselves feel better about their own less-then-dazzling lives. H&M have all the subtlety of an avalanche, and every single stupid thing they’ve done has been so obvious it’s comical. You have to be a special kind of stupid to take someone like her at face value, and believe me, we’re really not that dumb. (Well, OK, some of us are, but still.....)

These two are all over the tabloid press and TV shows for the exact same reason Trump was - scandal and gossip sells. If the tabloids would just refuse to cover them any longer, they’d cease to exist, but there’s too much money to be made.

I agree with you that the Queen should’ve kicked them to the curb even before they ran away to Canada, but she couldn’t have foreseen all of this. She’s only human, after all. Someone with her sense of duty and responsibility would never in a million years imagine what someone totally devoid of those characteristics would be capable of doing. But I still think that when push comes to shove, she’ll choose to do what’s right for the country, even though it’ll break her heart to do it. They call it “tough love” here, and my hunch is that she’s been moving in that direction all along, but still hoping against hope that her grandson would snap out of it and come to his senses. My heart goes out to her, it really does.

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I'm disappointed to see some regular posters calling people names. As I said name calling is simply not on, and those people have short bans. Tough love.

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