Slave-owning colonists!! The truth is a good thing, we should embrace it.

omg exactly!! leave him out, write your own essay on his involvement, but why bother mentioning this at all??  

I’m basically like, why is this article even a thing though? It would have been enough if they had just celebrated it without talking about Polanski. Like, that legit is what I said would have been enough. Are we arguing? i genuinely cannot tell

Can’t ETA: I COMPLETELY missed the point of your comment, my bad!!

<3 <3 <3 u get it

tbh the donation thing and four hour longform documentary series sounds fine to me! You can win here!! But also...your last line, i’m confused; I’m saying remove him from the art’s celebration.  Comment on what his involvement means, celebrate the techniques but not the man. am I being trolled by fucking Aaron Sorkin…

disagree, should!

I’m going to politely bow-out, as I do not think we’ll see eye-to-eye and also you did not answer the actual question. Have a good one!

...but I just did!! Like, why can’t you? You have to justify that or you are hurting people for an obscure idea you don’t know how to defend. THAT is the basis of how people end up dead for just existing.

hard disagree! He legally makes the money but we don’t need to center anything around him other than his pedophilia!

nah man, I see what you’re saying but that conversation is very easy to navigate. You hear, “Why is he erased from this?” and you say, “cause he raped a girl” or some version of that until people get it. Racism, sexism, pedophilia, sexual assault all more important than a single person’s influence on film, especially…

wait MEAN AUNTS?? hard no!!!

but empirically-speaking, had Jez not pointed it out, who would care besides those who care to advocate for Polanski (not a great look, right?)? Like Jez just spotlit Polanski for absolutely NO reason, IMO. And so I think the right thing to say is, “fuck that guy, celebrate everyone else and let him die obscure like…

idk but if it’s coming back then the viewing numbers vs. this site’s opinions are probs disparate :/

“ But you can’t pretend like he wasn’t involved with the movie”

yeah it’s so transparent and pretty sickening. IMO it shouldn’t even be brought up anymore, even to quote an insane celebrity. I don’t think a public health debate like this needs to be centered around some lunatic’s unscientific bigotry. People on the spectrum don’t need to be reminded of those other people’s…

I am with you, Ace (ha!), because for some reason mirrors seem extra haunted or like a portal to another realm in the dark and I have never been ok with looking at mirrors in the dark OMG. 

FUCK this is such BS. It’s like the GOP has a grab-bag of “controversial” issues they like to use when they need to distract us from something much worse (i.e.: HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY RN, the whole fucking country!). Riling up the base indeed, threatening marginalized people who pose no fucking threat to anyone and are…

ok but watching everyone freak out was actually pretty good.

yes! And tbh, the WB/CW show has enough staunch stans (since they’re fucking killing it with establishing their universe/s) that I can see people being like, “Um, what? he’s not the Flash...”. Like just watch if they ever tried to replace Stephen Amell lol.