It means I’m sure there is a network out there that that caters to her racist, bigoted ideology.

Yep. They are worse to her than they are to Trump, an actual racist. Obama Derangement Syndrome has been replaced with Hillary Derangement Syndrome.

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I agree. Why contextualize any votes in Congress when we can cynically ignore the actual history of such things to promote our candidate of choice? It doesn’t matter that he fought the crime bill for years, defanged it a little, and only voted for it because of VAWA. He is the person to blame for mass incarceration.…

Wait, so you’re telling me bloggers took something a famous white person said that wasn’t racist, and then decontextualized it so it sounded racist? Impossible! If this keeps up, we may have to start disregarding bloggers’ daily racist witchhunts altogether.

Which is why it never read as racist to me, a person of color who’s familiar with the JFK reference. I think she forgot about that No Child Left Behind thing eating the brains of so many.

Um, no, YOU are making it reductive and non-reflexive. It was a passing comment in support of a particular thesis not related to the respective claims of Africans and non-Africans. It is not the duty of every user of the spoken word to caveat every second remark with “I mean this just in one sense, please don’t…

I’d love to believe that this will give the Gawker Media outrage brigade a moment of pause before their next witch-hunt but it won’t.

Hooray for the internet! Two places will post the retraction and everyone will only remember the headline from the hundreds of sites that got the story wrong. It’s a big electronic asshole.

“They were as baffling as they were outrageous, and now they’re just kinda classic out-of-touch-actor eye roll inducing.”

Strange to see a blog that loves to de-contextualize stories and people suddenly embrace the re-contextualizing of a famous person. What’s gotten into the water at Jezebel? Why didn’t Jezebel do it’s own investigation to find out what really happened?

Well we live in an age were concise language is the rule of the day. Streep’s comment was clumsy and that’s all it took for the finger wagers to start wagging their fingers and feel better about themselves. Hopefully it gets worse! I cant wait for what should have been a five minute speech will take all day as every…

There’s nothing wrong with the comment, except that it was phrased in such a way that “news” sites were able to take a snipit of it out of context and make her look bad. Like a real life version of this.

But she OWES us. She owes us perfectly formulated answers that are perfectly in tune with the Acceptable Progressive Ideology. By refusing to conform she is at best Problematic, at worst a White Feminist Who Refuses To Acknowledge Her Privilege.

No, Meryl isn’t ‘redeemed.’ Redeemed suggests she was in the wrong for a period. Hopefully shitty reporters are chastened, though.

Thankfully, I knew Meryl Streep wouldn’t have said that and didn’t get outraged. Because I am smart.

Africans weren’t banging Neanderthals, tho.

Yeah, after this correction, where it seems like Meryl is not saying “white people count as diversity” (which is ludicrous) but “I can relate to films from other cultures because we share a common humanity,” (which is utterly uncontroversial) the people who need redemption (which still seems like a strong word) are…

“redeemed”? That’s arrogant.