Mask truthers are always out there.

I agree that we’re not innocent, but I also believe “we’re not like China” is a true statement. If you sincerely think their government isn’t worse to its people, and especially its opposition, than ours is, you’re deluding yourself. We’ve done terrible things, but it’s not the same.

fair enough about the job thing.   Thank you for more information. 

Blizzard’s stand on that sweet China money is also without ‘Tegridy, seeing as they force the Taiwanese team to call themselves “Chinese Taipei” and ban them from using their own flag (just like in the Olympics).

Taiwanese are riding a thin line with this whole thing. What happens in Hong Kong, will pretty much determine what will happen next in Taiwan.  China’s leadership is out for keeps.  No loose ends anymore.  The two interviewers should have stood tall and supported the guy.  If Hong Kong falls to China’s will, and…

“anti-mask measurements”

Last week’s South Park episode seems all the more relevant when weighed against this story, the immediate backlash the Houston Rockets faced when a member of their staff posted in support of Hong Kong, etc.

I’m all for letting other nations handle their own internal disputes, but the way China attempts to strong-arm…

Yeah. “It was a different time” is not a very good excuse, it seems like just a highlight of saying ‘we want to ignore an ugliness from the past’. When I grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, people used that to claim that nobody ever got divorced until the ‘70s, that the women’s lib movement just somehow made divorce a thing…

Birth of a Nation was super controversial even at the time.  Although it made a ton of money, there were also boycotts and widespread press attention to it’s racism.  The controversy prompted DW Griffith to make Intolerance, a film arguing against prejudice of various kinds. 

The “it was a different time” excuse doesn’t really fly because they were getting pushback at the time.  In the article they talk about protests from a real sorrority on the campus where they filmed over things like the spy camera scene. 

There are films that could never be made today that still hold up remarkably well due to the fact that they are actually *good* movies, and approach these subjects with a depth of understanding that far surpasses stuff like RotN. Take a movie like Blazing Saddles, which contains racist humor, stereotypes, rape jokes…

Respectfully disagree. I was a teenager when this movie was released. Even at the time, it was deeply uncomfortable to watch, at least for a girl. I think the only meaningful difference is that I felt I had to laugh it off. I don’t think my 16 year old daughter would feel the same pressure to pretend that rape was…

Wow, we’re totally gonna stop analyzing and recontextualizing works of art just because this guy said to!

It’s a funny movie and in a lot of ways somewhat progressive, but there’s no reason to sugarcoat the scenes that are inappropriate because it’s a different era. It was sexual assault either way, and they violated the privacy of the Pi Delta Pi sorority girls in a wildly inappropriate manner.

I mean, agreed, but while I won’t condemn a work of art solely for shoddy cultural subtext or whatever, they sometimes serve as interesting points of comparison. It’s sometimes a discussion worth having, if it doesn’t overwhelm your opinion of the movie itself. ROTN probably would have aged badly anyway because, uh,…

Yeah, rape is totes cool as long as it’s a joke.

There’s a bit more to it. Our local State’s Attorney believes that the SA is somehow “the Chief law enforcement officer in his district.” This does not sit well with the 14 elected Sheriffs in his jurisdiction. Any hint on County-level corruption, and he’s ON IT.

Someday, cops and the law enforcement community in general will realize that these bad cops are their enemy, giving them all a bad name. Someday they’ll realize that they need to be exposing this kind of thing, rather than covering up for these bad cops. Someday... I’m just not holding my breath in the meantime.

But you know, police lives matter and the thin blue line and all that shit. An LEO that was busted for sexual misconduct in his old job, a job that warned this last one about it, and he was hired anyway. Then a local department that had to know and swept it all under the rug anyway because the false arrests and all…

It’s so crazy how, for centuries, cops were honest and upstanding enforcers of the law, there only to protect and serve, but they they started to do shit like this just as video cameras were becoming ubiquitous. Weird...