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Thistlewood recorded this punishment as well as a further punishment of Derby in August of that same year in his diary.<ref name=race>{{cite book |last1=Tate |first1=Thad W. |last2=Jordan |first2=Winthrop D. |last3=Skemp |first3=Sheila L. |year=1987 |title=Race and Family in the Colonial South: Essays |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9F2AAAAMAAJ&q=%22derby%27s+dose%22&dq=%22derby%27s+dose%22&ei=3D-iSbG4PIuiyAS4kIyMAg&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 |accessdate=February 23, 2009}}</ref>
On November 18, 2013, British television host [[Martin Bashir]] discredited a comparison made by U.S. politician [[Sarah Palin]] between the United States' debt to China and slavery by referring to Derby's dose.<ref>http://www.eurweb.com/2013/11/martin-bashir-slays-sarah-palin-over-slavery-quip-then-gives-epic-apology/</ref><ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir-says-someone-should-sht-in-sarah-palins-mouth/</ref> In pointing out how cruel and barbaric slavery was, Bashir used Derby's dose as an example; at the end of the segment, he finished by saying that "if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, [Palin] would be the outstanding candidate".<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir-says-someone-should-sht-in-sarah-palins-mouth/</ref> He was criticized for this comment, and ultimately resigned.<ref>
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