She’s allowed to rap. No one owns rap. It’s just rhythmic poetry. But I’m not here for using black people (even Method Man) as props for “authenticity.” You’re not black, so why try to be authentically that? Just rap as yourself. I don’t know why this is so hard for people. Kanye doesn’t even do this shit.

And?

Yeah. On this point, I felt MIA is English and Tamil. She has lived her life as a brown person from an ethnic group that has alot in common with how blacks are treated in the US, and her ethnic group is also persecuted in Sri Lanka, so I feel more comfortable with her donning the “outsider” garb that is hip hop.…

And why does that make any difference? If you’re white, please understand that just because some black person ignorantly props some non-black person up doesn’t mean that other black people can’t find it offensive. And if you’re black, don’t be that person who perpetuates the idea that if one black person cosigns you…

I hear you. I’m not mad at her. I don’t blame her as harsly for not knowing. And I certainly don’t hold K-pop stars in Korea to the same standard as say, Gwen Stephani and her Asian cosplay. But CL is singing in English and filming in NY now, so it’s time for her to learn. And I’m not here for it.

I’m actually complaining about what you’re accusing me of. I don’t see the need to make the comparision to her mother at all, and I wish the title of this piece didn’t do it. I don’t think it’s fair to the kid, who will grow up and be wonderful in her own way — whether it’s via beauty or not. I don’t think you should…

I know. Which is why I feel icky about her being pushed as a supermodel in the vein of her mother. She might grow up to be gorgeous. She might not, and that’s ok. But right now she just looks like a cute 14 year old kid, and it seems like a weird amount of pressure to put her on a magazine cover and say shes…

Cute kid obviously, but only in the last one does she even begin to approximate the model star power of her mother.

I enjoy and consume hip hop. I am a black American decendent of slaves. But I don’t walk around in chains making gang signs and using urban slang because I am an upper middle class attorney who grew up abroad and for whom doing so would be fake and absurd. (I use black slang that I grew up with, but I don’t reach for…

Right. That’s what I’m doing. Not sure why you’re so combative.

I get that you’re saying that. I’m saying that I personally would criticize them both. They are both bad to me. I’m speaking for me.

This. This this this this this. I want to like this and support it, but hip hop is such a culturally specific phenomenon I’m just not here for people trying it on like an outfit. Emenim? Sure. He grew up poor in Detroit. It’s not about race. But this woman? I just can’t get down with it.

What are you talking about!? There is literally nothing I have written that would indicate I think you deserve what happened to you (or Parker’s victim). But everythign you’ve written makes it clear that you’re unhinged. Just because something terrible happened to you doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole internet troll.…

That is an incredibly reductive and culturally blind interpretation of his ignorant and offensive comment but, ok. That’s your perogative.

I hear you, but because you can never fully understand the circumstances from an “act” (for example, two people might each strangle someone, but one might have done so in “excusable” circumstnaces — e.g. after being tortured and molested by the ‘victim’ for years, for example) you can’t make a blanket judgment about…

Ok internet person. I’m too saddened and exhausted by actually considering what has happened here to waste time with someone who just wants to lay claim to some sort of moral high ground on the interent. I guess you care more about victims than me. If believing tha tmakes you feel good, knock yourself out. I’ll…

I agree with the “unabiguously consentual” part of your argument, but I also think that he might be constrained from making a legal omission of guilt — if not because of risk of civil suit then because of some agreement with the studio. I also agree that your version of what he should say is great and ideal, but that…

Lol!

All I remember about this movie was my mom’s hand covering my eyes. #oldtoo

Agreed. And it looks like he’s done a decent job.