Ah, you've somehow managed to exceed the superhuman reach you demonstrated before. Well done. I've certainly never been implicitly accused of racism because I don't like Superman being portrayed as a miserable bastard, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Doesn't all criticism essentially boil down to disagreement over artistic philosophy? You could make the argument you're making literally any time anyone dislikes a piece of entertainment media. "Well, look, you obviously just have a philosophical disagreement with Larry the Cable Guy about what is or isn't funny. If…

If I wanted to convice them I wasn't a threat I might try not scowling literally all the time, but maybe that's just me.

Sure people know characters change with interpretation - they didn't miss all the examples you cited. They were there for them. Which should go some way toward explaining that, yes, they just really dislike Snyder's take that much. It's not the idea of him distinguishing his take on the characters from other people's…

My God, this thing goes right to the top! He's probably an SJW and/or cuck as well!

I was all on board for Eisenberg as Luthor, but he played him as so unabashedly and publicly insane that I can't for a second buy that his stock price didn't completely plummet after the bizarre, possibly drug-addled speech he gave it his charity event. There's "eccentric billionaire" and then there's "very obviously…

Oh, well that's easy. We're all getting paid by Kevin Feige, even though the X-Men movies aren't owned or controlled by Marvel Studios. It has nothing to do with Apocalypse being the eighth in a series that has already had several terrible to lukewarm entries, and is certainly not a function of how strongly people…

Yeah. I personally found MoS and BvS unbearably drab, but "this looks like total shit" isn't really the consensus on why those movies aren't great. Certainly the idea that people are "offended" by Snyder's aesthetic brilliance is…breathtakingly weird.

Two things:
1) That's exactly my point.
2) It's possible, indeed actually very common, to dislike Zack Snyder's visual style without being "offended" by it. Strange as it my sound, Snyder's visual sensibility is not objectively brilliant.

"My theory is that people are offended by anything resembling real visual style."

"Where is the criticism of Bart Simpson's crank calls?"

That's not what it is to a lot of the 4Channers and so on who personally identify as trolls, though.

Agreed. I took a break from Facebook for a couple of months before my daughter was born, and even though I just posted a status saying, "Hey all, taking a bit of a break from Facebook, but hit me up on email, twitter, or give me a call," my wife and I were still inundated with messages from people asking if I was okay.

It's surprising given that we had a very tiny African population until about 15 years ago, but the UK's Black and White Minstrel Show used to be popular here right up into the early '80s, and there's a long tradition of whitefellas dressing up like Aboriginal Australians for reasons of mockery or what have you.

William Fichtner just sprang to mind, but I've only just started drinking my morning coffee.

Sad!

Jane The Virgin springs to mind - when I tell people the premise, and even that it's inspired by Latin American telenovelas, the response is like, "Why the fuck should I watch that and why are you watching it?"
But it's so good.

Yeah, I always assumed it was just a corruption of 'jack-off;' interesting to know it has a different root entirely.

And this is what I mean - the existence of Islamophobia doesn't mean all criticism is invalid, but Jesus Christ - setting someone on actual fire because of their religion deserves to be considered categorically distinct from, "Well, you know, I'd like to question what this sura says about the nature of the marriage…

He called national security because he saw a brown person, made the leap to Muslim, then to terrorist. That's Islamophobia, in a nutshell. You can talk about how it's "rational to fear Islamic principles," but the kind of extreme, paranoic bigotry my friend demonstrated is exactly why Islamophobia should be talked…