Somebody learned the word exemplify today!

There are two routes a former Disney Channel kid can take in life. There’s the Zac Efron, Zendaya, etc... just slowly expanding the different types of roles. And then there isthe “try hard”, look at me I’m not a kid anymore, types. Bella Throne is the try hardiest try hard there is. 

Can somebody please just MeToo this guy already??

Is it dead? The illustrated version of Order of the Phoenix book is the #5 best selling book on Amazon Right now, people still flock to Harry Potter world, and there is tons of positive buzz around the game.

That is seven books my dude. And there were eight films.

Well, mostly, yeah, but “people who believe stupid things” (or harmful things) aren’t a monolith. Some of them can be diverted and redeemed, to greater or lesser degrees, and I think it’s worth at least some amount of effort to try.

Jerry Seinfeld has gently said his piece on the matter—by saying very little at all.

I agree with some of this. BUT:

Funny you mention Toad, who is voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, a noted person of color.

So that makes me a bad person, joke police? Let’s not go crazy and pretend a Latin person playing a white Italian from the fucking Super Mario Bros movie was some kind of revolutionary act of inclusion.

After a long discussion with my father this morning (fluent in Italian) we landed on “Are French people Latino, no. Are we Latino, no”. What John Leguizamo is saying here is a bit silly and he clearly wants a paycheque but like..... I guess what annoys me about it (and I don’t consider myself minority so this is a new…

Like he wasn’t even the lead lol.  He was Luigi playing second fiddle to Mario.

I bet they did for the Japanese language version.

I’m not the one making weird, judgmental assumptions about people based on absolutely nothing, but you go on feeling superior if it helps you get through the day.

It does seem odd that another word was needed when ‘Latin’ is explicitly genderless and everybody-encompassing. There may very well be some more nuance to it that I’m missing, of course.

From what I’ve read lately, Latinx is pretty much over and done with. Thankfully. 

Italians are white guys, this is really much “demanding” people of color should be represented just because some white dude got cast in a white role.

Chris Pratt isn’t even short or a plumber or someone with a mustache, what the hell?

Was Leguizamo so drunk on the set of the ‘93 movie that he thinks the Super Mario Bros are Latino, rather than Italian? The only thing that “kind of sucks” is his refusal to even bother growing a mustache to play Luigi!

“But Latin men/women didn’t exist in a game in fantasy made by a Japanese Company!” said the Internet.