Do you actually talk about anything or do you just whine about other commentors?

“You Indian Uncle Tom sellout.”

Haha, who’s the racist now?

How many South Asians are offended by Apu?

“So the issue of police violence needs to affect “most” black people for you to care. Ok. Glad to know that’s the standard.”

It needs to affect most black people to justify the utter nonsense I hear people on this site say. Stuff like “every black parent has to talk to their child about racist cops”, which, given the…

I read this on Facebook somewhere.

What study? You linked to two news articles.

“Ah, so now you’re conceding that there is, in fact, a racial disparity in the use of force by police.”

No, because

a) more white people get shot than black people
b) Are you missing that bit about the lightning? How can you claim the police are racist when black people are as likely to get struck by lightning as they…

“WHY can’t they be more like the right & defend their racists, pedophiles, adulterers and assholes!”

Y’all have no problem doing as the Right does. https://nypost.com/2017/10/05/why-does-hollywood-keep-defending-roman-polanski/

I think Whedon himself specified that he did things with people who worked for him.

Just goes to show how political the art world can be. Though I genuinely do think he’s kind of a hack.

People took his performative liberalism seriously because he had female characters on his shows. In the 90's that made him a feminist.

“Repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”

-Natureslayer

Well...there is something to be said for inappropriately overt sensitivity...but yeah, Fight Club is bad.

It doesn’t. Even given the racial disparity, this problem affected 0.000485% of the black population last year. For whites, it affected 0.000196% of their population. That’s some ridiculously low ratios. That’s what I mean when I say it isn’t a race thing.

And this link is also what I mean when I say law-abiding…

“Why would that institutional racism suddenly disappear when it comes to the use of force?”

Because it doesn’t happen to enough of the population.

Because I know the stats regarding people who get shot by cops-armed or not- is less than 1% of the population. (it might even be half that as far as I know). Whereas I don’t know how many people get arrested for no reason. If I knew the stats behind getting arrested for no reason, I might argue those, too. But I…

“Or the part where T’Challa chastises his ancestors and tells them that their isolationism was wrong? Or the part where the anti-refugee character is rebuked by his wife at the point of a spear? Or the part where T’Challa tells Nakia that there might be a way for her to help people and remain in Wakanda, which implies…

Getting searched, pulled over, or arrested.

My kneejerk reaction is not really. Yet I know that such instances exist.

So...yes, I guess?

At least they were American.