According to this article and the original article on the AP, it was an issue of the manager refusing to enable subtitles/close captioning, not providing individual hearing devices, because it “wouldn’t be fair” the non-HOH folks.

It’s odd you missed that, possibly twice, and yet, still went full throttle into a…

Yeah no doubt, I was! Throwing in the towel and washing my hands on this one. He’s just doubling down, down thread. And today, in: “Disabilities: examples of people who just don’t fucking get it” for $1000....

I’m glad you aren’t an idiot

Their argument that “activating the captions would be unfair to the other audience members” suggests that we’re talking about open captions here, not captioning on the personal devices. I’m sure a multiplex like this is screening from DCPs, not on reels of film, so turning on the captions would be pretty easy,…

Why not just turn on the captions? Don’t the hearing-impaired have the right o go to a movie? Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not a law.

Almost 30 million Americans are Deaf or hard of hearing.

You’re absolutely right!! Why would deaf people want to see a remake of a classic Disney movie?! They couldn’t possibly enjoy that. Also, why would they travel in large groups? I doubt they can follow more than one sign language conversation at a time. They should stick to pairs, or 4 people max. I’m sure they don’t…

Or they were from a group of Deaf people? Like the ones my friends belong to because they learn sign language and other skills necessary for deaf people together. Not everything is a conspiracy.

I don’t get it. Is your argument that deaf people should have to go individually, in pairs or in small groups? If this was planned, so what? If this is activism/protest by their community, GOOD.

Also, using the word “traumatized” seems pretty tone deaf, predictably. Like, I imagine the people who actually experienced police brutality are traumatized by that experience.

Bezos, et al have been knocking it out of the park, these days...

In a way, the commercial shows a real-world dynamic quite well.

Spare us. It ain’t like she wasn’t warned about this shit before. This backlash for paying fast and loose with culturally sensitive concepts ain’t new to her. Like when she allowed Marie Claire to claim that she was a ‘bold trendsetter’ for wearing a style that black women have been wearing for millenia. She’ll be…

The Washington Post is worth every last cent of the $4.99/mo I pay for it.

In Egypt or in some Latin American countries the police and the military rape women.

I appreciated this headline.

She could also take the nice fat check she got from Pepsi and, I don’t know, donate it, to BLM, Planned Parenthood, etc. You’ve got plenty of $$, Kendall, but you might be surprised how good it feels to practice a little altruism.

In Egypt or in some Latin American countries the police and the military rape women. But Kendall is traumatized because people’s didn’t like the commercial she got millions to do. WILL SOMEBODY PRAISE HER WORK PLEASE ITS SO HARD TO POSE STIFFLY.

When you thought this was your Cindy Crawford moment but you fucked up and everyone hates you because you don’t read the news.

If she wants to know what it is really like to be traumatized maybe she should go to a real protest, where the people actually believe in something and the cops show up in riot gear. You know, the ones that look a little more like this: