You are free to not subject yourself to the stories. Just a thought.

In other words, you felt peer pressure from a game and now want all of us to peer pressure gaming companies into making game that doesn’t peer pressure you back?

I think it’s important to ensure that the racist and otherwise immoral underpinnings of things from our past remain in our minds, that we don’t allow ourselves to fall victim to the foggy forgetfulness that comes with the passage of time.

There’s no winning here.

Or that you can borrow from the past in ways that don’t try to pretend the bad stuff didn’t happen or wasn’t a part of it.

NEWS BULLETIN:

Dumb article that only exists for a click, which in turn references a dumb essay that itself only exists for a click.

“Hey guys, some people used this art/historical moment/idea for racist/sexist/etc. purposes, and it is wrong wrong wrong to reference the art/historical moment/idea without referencing (read:…

I’m a black, disabled, queer woman from the south and I don’t resent a fucking to-the-manor-born journalist one bit. He hasn’t taken a thing from me and, with this gig, has given so very much back to me. Hush.

Is there any job he could do that you wouldn’t attack him for?

This is just painful to read. You may be super duper fun at parties!

That’s so cute. Now they both have more rings than the Dodgers.

So a guy runs into a group of people, killing at least 5, and this is what you focus your disgust on?

You are so....

Yeah, I didn’t think we needed an explanation as to just how sensitive you were going to be about a usage of slang , but thanks.

I also think drone warfare, repeatedly failing to close said torture containment camp, and the NSA are really and truly evil, but that’s just me.

october: i will make fun of this animal crossing phone game

I think the issue is that in 2017 people are more and more afraid of acknowledging some of the failings, incoherencies and fallacies that causes, people, movements and ideologies they align with so plainly have.

If you liked the Book of Mormon but don’t like South Park anymore, I’m extremely skeptical about the sincerity of any argument for the latter that isn’t “I don’t like it when they needle some of the absurd extremities people I agree with or sympathize with take their arguments to”.

I posted this during a discussion about this issue at the AVClub:

It’s true that the original trangressive slant of South Park worked better when we were lambasting regressive social norms, but now that norms have become more progressive it has served as fertilizer for conservative/regressive attitudes. Being…

Wow the guy who tells jokes about current events for a living told a joke about current events and now he’s a “disgusting pig”.