I’m not sure she saw that and I don’t have the heart to tell her, it upsets her to know such things about her dad’s legacy being co-opted.

Is is, same with Star Trek and (its a lesser known phenomena) but the Twilight Zone too.

And also, for fuck’s sake people stop blaming all the shit you don’t like on the actors. They’re just doing their work. You may not like a performance, that’s fine. But realize that the actors do very little by way of creating characters. That’s on the screenwriters and the director. Is Ahmed Best responsible for Jar…

Yeah I am. The one over your mom’s bed.

Huh. And here I didn’t think it was possible to culturally appropriate white people. Thanks for the lesson, Target.

Their “greedy building owner” was The Bowery Mission and provides free services to the homeless. Hilly and his family put out BS that they couldn’t afford their rent due to gentrification and “greedy landlords” to gain sympathy and rile people up. In reality, they could make more money licencing their name to the…

“White people exercising their privilege is just a natural instinct. But nothing makes a white person feel GOOD about exercising their privilege than a cadre of black people cheering them on.”

I live here too, I know. There is less up-in-arms gentrification cries regarding Varvatos though.

I like ‘fit shake’. I’m picturing a really old man on a dance floor in a plaid button-up and all-white ortho shoes shaking wildly head to toe and yelling in rage while the geriatric DJ spins some Peter Paul and Mary.

You’re thinking too linear. You use the WhiteAllyBackup app (obviously shortened to #WallyApp) and that triggers the #BlackBackup 5 min. after they send the Stans and Lindas.

I agree. The outrage seems a touch performative.

Target is hella convenient and already has brand recognition, they should’ve just opened with their normal target express storefront and would’ve been welcomed with open arms.

I dunno.

As an old school punk rocker, albeit not from NYC, I am appalled! lol, but not really. Every thing that once was has already been ruined. :::old man fit shake:::

Ahh, we live in a stupid and cruel country. 

I think it’s hilarious.  Given that CBGB’s sold their name to be a Newark airport dining franchise, seems fitting that Target jumps in on the brand identity. Also, John freaking Varvatos is selling his overpriced togs at the former CBGB location and no one seems to think twice. 

If I ran their marketing, I wouldn’t not have apologized. I would have told the whiners to fuck off, called them poseurs, and asked them how many Stooges albums they own.

Lol, idiots.

So am I the only one who thinks that’s kind of cute and clever? I mean, deplorable seems a bit harsh.