"So, why didn't he just say that instead of mention random tweets?"

Nilin is not a real person with a real choice about how to define herself. She is a collection of decisions made by game designers. Those game designers chose to make their hero a woman of color - half-white, maybe, but also half-black - and then chose to not let that decision color anything else aboutthee portrayal.…

For the same reasons Halle Berry and Barack Obama are and have been their entire lives. Either you're being deliberately disingenuous or you're a Martian.

I was going to be snide and say, "Is one of those features feathers?"

Is...is that you?

There are people that thought San Andreas didn't take place in America?

Oh, I get it, you're trolling.

Barring the possibility that the Mindy Project becomes a gritty, realistic drama a la the wire, I'd say this isn't a show where it wouldn't be jarring for Mindy Kaling to ignore that.

Because it limits the work this show could be doing to challenge paradigms and represent minorities on screen to just Mindy Kaling. Everyone else is white.

The question here isn't about whether or not Mindy Kaling is allowed to have a type, it's about whether Mindy Kaling - as a woman of color in an extremely powerful position right now as an entertainer and as a woman of color for whom questions about her attractiveness due to her age/weight/color are a consistent…

So your argument is "Dr. Lahiri is a racist"?

The choices here aren't "Date only white guys" or "Date only Indian guys." I think the problematic "White people are the highest model of desirability for all the world" thing is pretty well established and we could maybe have Mindy, I dunno, date a Nicaraguan dude.

Right. So it has a pass.

Well sure, and the penis is a pixelized representation of limestone representation of a penis. But in-game, it's a statue, and in-game it's a character's sexualized buttocks.

It's a piece of art in-game, not a character's body. To invoke Magritte, it's not a penis, it's a piece of limestone.

I think making things more difficult traditionally acts as a deterrent and reduces instances. This is why we have laws at all. By the way, this goes for both purchasing and selling - it's not just about people having second thoughts about buying guns, but having second thoughts about who they're selling them to and…

Well no - a person can *try," but I'd rather a psychopath walk into a school or a movie theater with a hammer than a hand grenade any day. No one is claiming that the problem isn't dangerous people - the problem is that there are things we can do to keep certain tools away from dangerous people and we're not doing…

I find it interesting that the presence of a baptism was a blasphemy he considers tantamount to asking a Muslim to "spit on the face of Allah," as opposed to asking a Muslim to, y'know, recite the shehada.

A little late for Easter, but there you have it.

They didn't wear less into battle.