I was never talking about every episode of 30 Rock, I restated that in the second post. I have seen many, but not all the episodes in the show, so I won’t pretend to have encyclopedic knowledge ready to go at a moment’s notice.

You seem to be projecting a lot of arguments onto me that I didn’t make. Which is a part of the reason I’m not especially interested in debating with you about whether blackface is ever acceptable. Again, I’m talking to people who say that it isn’t ever acceptable, and I’m asking them to be consistent. If you want to…

Not sure why you’re assuming I haven’t watched the Jon Hamm sketch. You’re also not addressing the many times the show used blackface before that sketch.

What I’ll never understand is how, even in articles like this where people are trying to call out all the previously unremarked instances, still 30 Rock gets a pass. That show didn’t even use blackface once in a misguided attempt to lampoon racism, it had a serious blackface habit, and it usually wasn’t even trying to…

Well, look at you getting double-digits stars for that Truther bullshit. I didn’t know the Splinter commentariat had so much of that brand of crazy. Thanks for teaching me something.

Wow, it’s pretty disturbing how much that guy looks like the main villain from Far Cry 5

That annoys me too, but what I think bothers me more is that they don’t know anything about what taxes are or how they work, despite that being the only thing the base their vote on.

We have all been the person who got that response after we tried to fix the problem.

We have all been Frank Davis, low key but persistently trying to get the conspiracy-addled old person in our lives to just look at how the video was obviously edited or the photo was shopped. We just didn’t have to worry about that geezer destroying the world on the basis of those photoshops.

And by hitting him, thus making him lesser, put him in the place of a woman, for who we’ll use the word pimps use when beating their women to control them and which otherwise refers to a breeding dog. This from someone criticizing “toxic masculinity.” And complaining that Hughley is so regressive in a few ways when he…

So, we’re happy that Crews showed up the “hyper-masculine sect,” and we describe this as a “bitch slap”? Cool. Cool cool cool.

There, now that I’ve provided analogies that won’t offend your delicate sensibilities, do you think you can focus on the point he was making and not quibble about the analogy he used?

Did..did you just histrionically and deliberately misinterpret what he said?

We certainly don’t [...] take pleasure in other people getting screwed.

An astute and learned analysis.

I’m just a lowly gray across most GMG blogs, so what do I know, but why the fuck are several quite un-greyed comments in the “staff” section expressing explicitly white supremacist ideas? Like, aren’t these people supposed to be moderated away? Why are they being highlighted?

I would bet a very large sum of money it is from St. Louis. It’s gotta be the Midwest (like, Kansas-Nebraska-Iowa-Missouri Midwest). The sentiment on that sticker is, like, the entire region’s guiding driving philosophy. But the combination of thinking it’s a good idea to put it on a bumper sticker, putting it on such…

LOL, I’ve only commented in this thread because I noticed that one on the Concourse. It’s pretty silly to just roll through comments sections correcting the journalists’ grammar, especially when the phrase they used is clearly in common use and sort-of makes sense. That said, it was pretty dumb that Marchman popped in…

The link says both are used, and it also notes that “diffuse” is less precise. It doesn’t get into why you see either used when one makes more clear. But it’s pretty obviously a classic situation where the original saying was “defuse the X,” which makes the most sense semantically, but people hearing the phrase in…

I’m sorry that was a rhetorical question, but I should have expected you wouldn’t catch it. You did compare this kid to a sexual assault survivor, because your analogy is incoherent if you didn’t. But when constructing arguments by analogy, a grasp of logic matters.