And your response should tell you all you need to know about why it is YOU who is misinterpreting 1984. Orwell WAS a literal Anti-Fascist. He fought actual fascists, instead of the incompetent moron we have as a President. And even he, especially he, was quite a proponent of freedom of speech and personal liberty.

You know that there are people who aren’t conservatives (me, for instance) who feel that we’re over-correcting and don’t agree with erasure, right?

Hell, the joke from the Live Show is about how insanely offensive and awful blackface was during that era.

Yeah, I feel like with these kinds of things it’s usually better to slap a disclaimer on at the beginning.  “Hey, we thought this was funny and in the right at the time but now we realize its not and here’s why”

I’m also a middle aged, cis-hetero, white, male and if people say they are offended then I won’t argue they shouldn’t be because that’s just dumb for me to do. But if we start making perfection the only acceptable option for historical figures and entertainers then we aren’t going to have a lot to watch. I don’t know…

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

I think 30 Rock always had its heart in the right place with social satire, but there are instances—particularly in terms of queer representation—that haven’t aged well. This at least seems like a step in the right direction. And in the end, 30 Rock is still one of the best sitcoms of the century. 

Thoreau’s premise was that living simply allows people to focus on more important aspects of life. It has nothing to do with adventure or “roughing it” or risk taking. i.e. how far he was living from his family’s house doesn’t have much, if anything, to do with his premise.

This might be a weird stance but... If you can watch a show with dragons in... or a show with Zombies in... or a show with habitual space travel in... how can you draw a line in the sand about a show that dares to believe a good cop might exist?

My point is that folks shouldn’t need the context; They should already know that what was done back then is not right by today’s standards, and if they don’t, then the issue is deeper than what can be solved by a simple annotation.

If you all need a label, yes, the problem is you.

I keep seeing this argument, and it would fit if any of these characters were bad people...but they aren’t.

A Soul was the first thing that came to my mind, so I guess Torch is my spirit animal.

This seems like it cheapens the whole discussion of race relations in the world. “What have you done to eliminate systematic and real racism?”

black and white pictures are now racist. You have to call them grayscale pictures.

Terms can develop new meanings, lose old ones, or change in a million other ways. Just that fact that you have to inform people of the old meaning shows that the older meaning is no longer relevant to most people in day to day conversation. There was an older meaning (probably more than one), then your meaning, now…

It’s a real stretch to say slave ships accidentally killed the most people, since a certain death rate was “designed in” to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

And slideshow articles.

I would have gone deeper on internal combustion. Vehicle deaths, accidental or apurpose, is merely one minor (in the big-picture sense) side effect.

Well, no, when he turned around with the Taser, he decided his fate. Or should the officers just take the Taser and hope his drunk ass doesnt come over and take their gun and have a little revenge?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.