MSNBC had a big problem in its progressive shift, one that neither management or viewers could figure out. Should it be partisan or idealogical? Some viewers wanted a channel as partisan a Fox, one that would instinctively go into debunk mode at anything that might make democrats look bad. MSNBC’s hires were an…

Ah, I see. There are so many groups that shittily profitted off of being the system in systemic racism.

“I can honestly say that if I was born a black man my views would be the same”

This is one of my worries about the Clintons’ New Democrat history. Rove has used astroturf groups in the past to attack Democrats as not doing enough for underrepresented communities. I wonder if he or someone like him are preparing some of her triangulating comments to demotivate liberal voters. If you dig in the…

That’s a good point. I’m guessing you’re talking about practices like redlining? (Or how, more recently, predatory practices like Pick A Payment loans disproportionately hit PoC.) At the very least, saying that there should be reparations for these practices would be a solid step and a way to take some of that…

It’s kinda like the meltdowns that happened when a porn performer did a reading of a book to a group of children. She didn’t do anything inappropriate, she didn’t hand out her resume, detailing where to find her porn work, she just read a story but people acted like she did a presentation from the Joy of Sex.

#cahoots

Oh, neat. I adore Merrin Dungey, though I primarily know her from Better Off Ted and Malcolm in the Middle. Too bad OUAT couldn’t figure out what to do with Ursula. I didn’t realize they were related.

Tho I enjoy Steam’s system that lets you download and install a game during promotional periods and simply disables your access to the game once that period is done. I get a good idea how much I’d actually enjoy the game that way.

Netflix has “The Get Down” coming up, set in the same era and about music... and yet it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a white men doing white things in the past show! It’s like they know where the interesting stuff was happening.

I read that the show is supposed to follow the birth of punk, disco and hip-hop and that sounded interesting but then I realized Netflix also has a show that’s specifically about the birth of hip-hop, disco and punk but this one has PoC in the lead cast and is created by Baz Luhrman. I like Bobby Canavale but I’ll…

I get that people on gluten-free diets are annoying because avoiding gluten is trendy but wasn’t Elisabeth Hasselbeck a big part of making GF diets trendy? Or did it become okay for everyone to hate her now that she’s out at Fox?

My husband and I haven’t bothered to make multiple profiles so it goes from comedies, telenovelas and animated shows to horror, suspense movies and WWII documentaries.

I actually think the show keeps going back and forth in its values. It was a “only someone willing to kill every stranger they meet” show in season two, as seen by the debate over killing Randall (and the terribly-written debate where “moral center” Dale just sounded like a whiny liberal from a Mallard Filmore strip).…

See, I firmly believe that slurs are made by context. If a word is used frequently in a hateful way to describe a group of people it becomes a slur. The big difference between “colored” and “... of color” is the intent of the people using them, one term is used respectfully and the other isn’t. That’s why “homosexual”…

Something something it’s so unfair that we can’t say “colored” but they get to use a term that still has “color” in it.

Plenty of people have ID. These laws have often created strict requirements for an ID to be a valid one for voting, ones targeted to make sure liberal-leaning voters have it harder. Texas’ voter ID law infamously makes a university student’s ID not good enough but a permit to carry a gun meets the requirement.

While I thought the second “ripped-from-the-headlines” season of FX’s Dirt had potential reading this:

He was on an episode of Hollywood Game Night and he spent the show mugging to the camera to draw attention to himself.

I will give him credit, “That is a terrifying possibility” is a great generic response to someone saying something crazy. It’s perfect if you want them to build up to crazier and crazier heights or if you want them to get so worked up in a rant that they don’t notice you backing your way out of a room.