Get out of here with your facts Death. Don’t you have someone to kill?

Lincoln was still a politician, and “honest abe” nomenclature aside, I’m sure he was perfectly willing to parrot what was at the time a politically middle-of-the-road opinion, as abhorrent as we find it now. Was Lincoln racist? I have no idea, but a citation from a political speech hardly constitutes proof.

Well yeah, that’s why it’s “based on his life”, not a straight Biopic. You could easily make an exciting movie about just the story of him capturing the ship, saving his family, and getting them all to union lines. You have some close calls where the confederates almost catch him, have a scenery chewing confederate…

Nah, it’s just because the cleaning people at the sound stage where they filmed it accidentally bleached them. #TeachTheControversy

/me drinks a beer in honor of chocoloatechipcookiesforbreakfastgotbanned

What are you talking about? Sure, yes, you’re Latin American, or Latino, or Latina, or whatever it is you wish to be called. I’m not refusing to call you anything. I’m taking issue with the fact that you seem to be saying that your terms for self-identification are better than other people’s terms for…

At the risk of “well actually” there are a number of cognitive studies of pre-verbal children showing that they will instinctively prefer one group of people (or in this case puppets) over things like cereal preference, so there probably is some kind of instinctive tribalism built in to people.

Huh? I’m not saying that *you* need to use it. I’m saying that there are people who identify themselves as “Latinx”, and I’m more than happy to refer to them that way. You don’t speak for every single person who reads and speaks spanish...

Well, it is, but that’s immediately followed by “Hitler made some good points!”

Well I’m GenX and...we kind of did the same thing.

Exactly. If Wheaton were out there saying “I know Chris Hardwick and he would never do anything like this,” that would be one thing, but given that I’m sure he’s conflicted about it since by all accounts he and Hardwick are friends. just keeping his mouth shut rather than jumping in to the debate on either side seems…

We’re way off topic here, but the origins aren’t relevant. “Latin American” and Latino/Latina/Latinx have a fairly well understand meanings that people of that ancestry use as self identification. They they are not “Latin” could not be less relevant.

Well yes, that’s why he needs to go fishing...

Me too. I learned that some number of douchebags troll around Wikipedia changing references to “Ohio State” to “The Ohio State University”

Ambien doesn’t cause racism, it reveals it.

Yeah, that’s kind of how I feel. I really enjoyed their Phantom Menace takedown (particularly the part where they ask people to describe the characters without their name/job/costume as well as the deconstruction of the fact that Quigon Jin’s character choices really make no sense at all), but each subsequent review,…

Huh. Did Romero ever say anything about it? I assume this would have been done before he passed.

Hah. I’ve seen the dubbed version. I might see if I can track down the DVD at some point just to check that out.

David Plotz (of the Slate Political Gabfest) did a podcast called Working where he interviewed Colbert about what his job entailed (this was back when he was on the Colbert Report). He went through every step of his very long day (basically show prep all morning/early afternoon, show, research for tomorrow’s show…