I’ve seen that before; a variant of it also gets trotted out when something horrifyingly sexist or racist comes out of Japan: “It’s their culture! Don’t judge!”

...it’s like, dude, I get it: respect for a variety of cultures is key to being a reasonable person—but not every part of every culture is praiseworthy, even…

I would like to add one more:

5.) “It’s okay because a lot of Asian societies are more racist than other countries.”

Like that excuses him for using Twitch as a platform to display racist comments.

No.

And here we go again.

Countdown to the following:

1.) “Well, Black people use the word all the time, so we should be able to use it too! Either everyone can use it, or no one can!” —If you actually need linguistic reclamation explained to you, ask, and I’ll be happy to provide a calm, respectful description of how it…

Still won the primary and made it to the finals.

She also said, “Can I please have my social security check, which is definitely not welfare?”

What a fucking douche.

Paul Ryan sucked on the public teat his entire adult life. He received Social Security benefits through college after his father died, and he’s worked in government ever since then. He has never, not for one day as an adult not been paid for by taxpayers, but has been determined to take away the social safety net for…

I’ve read your post carefully and you make a salient point........But I’m still going to go with “spinless coward” on this one.

*insert why not both gif*

He was the worst kind of scum: the kind the media jacks off to. He’s somehow a “wonk” when all of his policies are just trickle-down economics that increase the deficit... which he somehow gets credit for being against.

And remember, above all, this is the kind of man who lies about his marathon times.

I understood why they had to get them together the first time. It was the direction the show had to go after they set it up. But, then I loved that they broke up. And, it wasn’t for a big, dramatic reason. It was for the very realistic reason that even though they loved each other, they just had different goals and…

Lauded as something progressive and inoffensive to whom? To other white people?

Oh you are just precious

I remember complaints about Apu from when he first showed up. It wasn’t that it was okay back then to make fun of people with accents - but the people who were hurt by it just weren’t considered important enough to matter. That’s pretty much the definition of racism.

Agree. It’s always been problematic. Also having Lisa say, “It’s hard to say. Something that started decades and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?” is extremely out of character for her and something she would never say. Seems intentional to add some sort of intellectual…

I love the Simpsons but I still have to say that the racism surrounding Apu was always there, it’s just that nowadays we’re finally calling this type of stuff out more. You don’t get a free pass just because it’s from a time that people cared less.