Addiction is a disease. Her life was cut short in part because of disease. We shouldn’t demonize her because the illness she had is less understood in society than something like cancer, but we also shouldn’t pretend that there aren’t health complications that can happen as a result of it.

So because they aren’t athletes in the layman’s understanding of the term (as opposed to the taxman’s), that means people shouldn’t be interested in watching it? That it doesn’t require skill? Adele doesn’t move like Beyonce, but I’d watch the shit out of a singing competition between the two. Bob Ross was a painter…

It would actually be about his son, dealing with the aftermath of his father’s downfall. It would be named King Orange II, but would have to be retitled for an American audience because they wouldn’t want to see the sequel before they saw the first one.

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I mean a lot of white female comedians are doing that white feminist, “ironically” racist and raunchy thing. I feel like even Tina Fey falls into that trap occasionally. Like having Kimmy pretend a bag of garbage was the (gay) black male lead, for example. Or having the character of Jackie being a Native American.

The reason those differences exist is because different countries have had different histories leading up to where they are in the moment. This also creates different laws. To expect these things to always be interpreted the same is to expect all of human history to be more or less the same, and that isn’t only…

They’ve darkened the picture in editing, she’s not wearing make up to do that. So that dictionary definition isn’t that helpful. This editing was clearly done to accomplish the same goal as blackface, and besides looking terrible because of how obvious and fake that shit looks, it’s also highly offensive. Regardless…

Well, for me, if something has no voice acting or bad voice acting, I’m less likely to purchase it. I don’t know the voice actors names, but I can tell if the voice acting is going to be a problem for me from the trailers.

This is going to make the whole thing worse.

Yes, just don’t do blackface. Nobody cared when Jimmy Fallon pretended to be Luscious Lyon in his “Jimpire,” sketch, for example. But he didn’t attempt blackface. As long as you don’t do that one tiny thing, most people won’t care.

Respect to the culture is what “cultural appropriation,” is about. It is easier for someone who actually grew up in a culture to know what is considered respectful or disrespectful, which is why it’s highly encouraged to talk with those people before just assuming you’re correct.

This is homage, not appropriation. There is a very thin line, and it does get messy. They are creating their own unique thing based off the other thing, they are giving credit to the cribbed design elements (rather than pretend completely their own thing), and the platform is intended to give visibility to these…

Did I say you were? I said that I don’t care that you are black, because I know that there are black people that are sexist or racist against their own people. You’re the one that tried to use it as a deflection of criticism for your post, so you’re the one that made it something to be dismissed as any kind of…

If he remembers the incident well enough to give explicit details, was he over the limit to consent? It seems like his memory may also be severely impaired though? What is that limit, and should the producers have stepped in? If both parties are drunk past the point of consent, who is responsible?

All the bigots say that they aren’t one. But gamergate was misogynistic as fuck. And this dude straight up admitted that some of his past shit was harmful and apologized. And you’re sitting here dismissing it as “diversity of political thought.” You also seem pretty preemptively guilty about some of your own posts. I…

I have this horrible, sinking feeling that he’ll get away with it in this case. And then morons will think he is innocent in all of them. And it’s just gonna be a shitshow of the highest order.

Have you tried not being a bigot?

Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean freedom from criticism, freedom from dissent, or the removal of the right of freedom of association from others. It means you should not be jailed for your opinion, or oppressed by the government.

See, now this is how you handle dumbass teenagers. I’m glad this school had some sense and didn’t treat these young ones like hardened criminals.

Keeping Up With The Kleptomaniacs.