No, she's an open attention whore. she may say she's bi for the same reason she made this video. So unoriginal...feeding a male-scripted version of female "sexuality. Funny how most hetero women actually like to see TWO MEN get it on. But we'll never see boy-on-boy action for women in the mainstream will we! Funny…

I'm Indian but was raised between the UK and the US.

AMEN. She's bothered me from the beginning. Overrated and the same in every role.

I'm inclined to agree. Though one might interpret it as a nod to the problematic conceit that a white woman remains the ultimate status symbol.

Not to get too deep into the darkest shit of racism, but I actually think it's also a fantastic extra gesture that they have a white woman sitting on his lap.

So President Obama should apologize ...to himself?

Heh, well I lived in the UK for a few years in my early and mid-20's, so I had to eventually learn that people didn't actually hate me when they picked on me for being American, it was just their way of being friendly ;-)

Yes I definitely think you have to understand British humour to understand why most of those comments are completely innocent.

Apologies, you're *acting* like a troll (posting easily debunked quotes and then exchanging smarmy comments with others about how much you're enjoying riling people up).

Actually looking at that tumblr some of the stuff he's said is definitely in the classist region.

Oh please. I'm a LibDem, there's nothing Tory about those comments. It's not remotely close to anything Romney ever said.

I don't agree. He's never said anything classist unless you count his lamenting of "posh bashing" as classist which it is not. I come from a (somewhat) similar background as Benedict (obviously my family has never owned slaves) and went to a British public school as he did and people do make a lot of assumptions about…

I'm not really a fan of focusing on individuals this way. I feel like it distracts from the point that, even if we didn't all get obscenely wealthy from slavery, white-majority Western countries prospered on the back of slave labor. I feel like it's an excuse for the rest of us [white people] to feel less "guilty"…

Yeah, I kept waiting to be shocked but...nope, nothing.

Those people do a fine job of being full of shit, is what you mean.

Can you link to anyone else except that Tumblr? All the eyerolling it forces me to do is making reading difficult.

That was seriously it? Honestly, that was pretty weak sauce. I was expecting substance and that was nothing.

In a 2007 interview, he said his mother had urged him not to use his real name professionally, fearing he could become a target for reparations suits by descendants of slaves.