My original post also held that my discomfort was my own.

You’ve basically recontextualized your argument as, “It’s bad because I think it’s bad.” I’m happy that you’ve admitted the subjectivity of your stance, but I still hold that outside that highly subjective context, there is a completely legitimate rationale for considering this “fair game” where other so-called…

I’m pointing at that there are perfectly legitimate grounds for accepting one and rejecting the other. You call it a false equivalency, which is patently wrong, when it’s simply another angle to view the relationship between the public, the candidates, and the way they’re presented in social media.

It was “unacceptable,” yet passed around many circles without a thought. Obama was a professor of constitutional law with years of public service. Trump is a charlatan and a fraudster. Besides the goose/gander dynamic, frankly, this is the level of satire that he deserves, and far from striving for something “better,”…

The likelihood of a tragedy certainly affects the poor taste of making fun of that hypothetical tragedy. When Chris Rock’s Head of State was released, it was funny that he made a joke about his character possibly being assassinated if he ran, because it was assumed that the chances of a black man getting a party…

I think that’s sort of the point. There’s a very clear difference between a candidate who is simply receiving death threats and a candidate who is receiving death threats in part because their opponent is actively encouraging such thought.

Has anyone threatened to kill Trump? I’ve heard plenty of death threats leveled against Clinton.

This is so tame compared to some of the rhetoric coming from his side that being offended by it shows quite a severe case of “Can dish it but can’t take it,”uenza. Yes, let’s calm down. But I say that the onus is on Trump et al. to start that ball rolling.

They wanted to make a movie about samurai, but the only way to shoehorn a white guy into the role in a halfway historically-accurate way was to use a conflict that was largely fought in an un-samurai-like manner. Either way, there were caveats that had to be made; my point is that you have to recognize that they chose…

This assumes that Hollywood is smart and savvy enough to know a good-but-unorthodox bet when they see one, and it’s proven time and again that it doesn’t. So many movies bomb against non-existent competition, and so many movies come out that are one in a long string of similar duds (“But we changed this one thing and…

I know, but the Satsuma Rebellion wasn’t anything like what they portrayed in the movie. The age of legions of full-armor samurai cutting people down with full-size katana on the battlefield was long over. ...I guess he didn’t even fight in that particular campaign, either? They transplanted his involvement from an…

The thing that gets me about The Last Samurai is that there actually was a foreigner who was considered samurai (however briefly) and fought in a fairly important skirmish during the Sengoku Era (when samurai were actually samurai, and not during the Meiji Restoration, when they weren’t really the popular conception…

This is the thing that everyone seems to not be getting about diversity efforts in Western (and, specifically, American) media: it’s about representation for Americans who happen to deviate from the representational “default” (i.e., white). The Chinese don’t care. West Africans, North Africans, East Africans don’t…