According to this 2022 CBS article, Chicago ranks 28th out of 64 cities in murder rate.

I knew that the whataboutChicago, in order to dismiss and deflect, was going to come up somewhere. I usually hear it from Faux News-fed brainwashees, so the performative from Texas isn’t surprising.

Yeah, in some ways, I think just trying to put everything on Presley’s appropriation is a way to make it about one villain that can be easily condemned, as if he loaded up a sack with black music and ran off with it like a singing hamburgler. What actually happened was that when a redneck kid who hung around Beale…

I think the issue is less Elvis with the appropriation, and more just the sad fact that his existence erased a lot of the contributions that Black musicians made at the time in his time. We know better as an audience now, but lots of white people were acting like Elvis was some originator of his sound.

Not as good as Aretha Franklin's.

good luck finding a single man or woman who worked with him who will say a bad word about him in any book or documentary

I know I’m a gray so y’all think I’m some right wing racist dicknozzle and thus nobody will ever see this or take it seriously, but I must ask, in this very specific instance with this very specific musician: Is it cultural appropriation if he grew up in and was immersed in that very culture himself? How is being as…

I’m pretty sure Jason Momoa and Forest Whitaker are at the bottom of the battle of the Chrises. Hell, they’re probably not even permitted in the battle.

This was funny, but it's a bit of a leap to make a through-line from "easily commits adultery" to "supports anti-trans opinions."

Yes.

Michael Richards agrees

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me....unless it’s a trans joke in which case I will make a blog post on avclub while holding back tears of rage that someone would dare to make a trans joke.

That is not how comedy shows work, openers are last minute all the time.

“but at this point, he has enough clout to at least try to distance himself.”

Nah, anyone who might boo Chappelle just gives him more of an opportunity to be an asshole. He literally had a bit on a recent special about someone in the audience calling him out.

There are no real emotional triggers, merely people who have trouble handling their emotions. That is what the reality really is...regarding being “triggered”.

Transphobic implies a fear of trans people.

Sure, if there’s one thing Tim Heidecker’s known for, it’s constantly worrying about people liking what he says or does.

this..

Sounds like a good time. Maybe AV Club and their audience needs to grow a thicker foreskin. And I look forward to the immature responses I’m going to get, just like the comment section on Facebook of trolls for attacking someone with an opinion that isn’t theirs. Too bad they aren’t as brave as in person...