The first time I read it, I thought he was ranting about Abolitionists. In his mind, it’s probably about the same thing really.

Yep, just like his entire campaign he was paying money to himself, and having the federal government pay him for providing protection. It’s even worse now. That’s what’s so crazy about this, he’s using it as an excuse to line his pockets at every turn, but the Republicans turn a blind eye to it.

Personally I’ve been trying to forget I ever saw that movie, but it would probably take an ocean taker full of whisky to blot it out completely.

Hello! I am Minister of Fuel Transport for the exiled Prince of Western Bahamas tan. We are told you can maybe help with a problem that we have $100 million us dollars of gasoline in tankers but cannot move them to us yet. Of you can provide your fuel bank account details to us so that we can be moving this fuel to…

Tackled, tasered, and handcuffed. At least that’s what you’d get in the real world.

It’s almost like they could use having people with different backgrounds and experiences on their team that could have pointed out how awful of an idea this was.

I don’t think that putting a different actress in would have changed it, honestly. Instead we’d be getting Hollywood blaming it on casting a non-white female, rather than just female. -_-

I liked it, partly because it outdid my (admittedly low) expectations. I do think they failed to make the case to general audiences, and also that they didn’t spend enough time developing the whole cultural erasure aspect, or the consent bit. That is, it was clunky rather than smooth, which is an execution failure…

Yeah. It’s orientalism/appropriation/etc rather than Whitewashing. Bad, just not that specific flavor of bad.

The problem with Iron Fist goes back way before the creation of the TV series. That is, the core story of rich white kid stranded in Asia and learns mystic martial arts to become a superhero is the problem, not that a white actor was cast as such. (That doesn’t make it better)

By that logic we shouldn’t bother with movies made from books, comics, etc. After all, people already have the original. I get the frustration with how Hollywood gets things terribly wrong (I’m an anime fan of the non-dubbed persuasion), but having seen cases where other things, like superhero movies of late, have…

Right now I would kill for a bit of repackaged neoliberalism with light left tendencies, Justin Trudeau style, in the USA.

Depends on how many of their voters are Kylo Ren. 

I’m really not sure what to tell you then. It was a movie where an evil (white male) corporate executive tries to erase the identity of an Asian woman, and make her into a generic pretty white girl with a fake past, only for her to reject that, find the truth, and fight back against him and his corporation - and while…

Honestly, you should see the movie. I did so on the recommendation of one of my friends who’s absolutely the last person to give a pass to anything she thinks smells remotely of Whitewashing. I was dubious, but having actually now seen it, I can reassure you that it is addressed in the film. SPOILER TAG:  They’re just…

I’m not suggesting anything of the sort. I’m suggesting that this is not the place to make a do our die stand over, because it isn’t the glaring example you seem to think it is, any more than most castings of any race neutral role defaulting to “white” in Hollywood’s eyes are a problem. Yes, we do need to push back on…

I would argue the character isn’t offensive.* The casting choice is arguably offensive, mostly because Hollywood has a terrible record, and deserves no benefit of the doubt. I think that Scarlett is taking all the flak for the studio execs that would have happily replaced her. That’s not to say she should be…

At the same time, I have to wonder though, if the response doesn’t overdo it. That is, I worry about letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, because there are certainly people out there whose brand of feminism is “none at all, get back to the 50s” - just look at the White House right now. I worry that spending…

And the best part is if the movie doesn’t do well, Hollywood will simply say that action movies with female leads don’t do well, and point to this as why there’s no Black Widow solo movie.

I know enough that when I see someone start in about agenda 21 and fiat currencies to know where it’s going. Look, do you even understand what money is? It’s a representation of productivity, that we exchange in lieu of the goods, services, and other added value it represents. The ideal would be to have the rate be…