The Moors were mostly descended from Arabs and Berbers, but in the context of Othello, yes, it refers to black people.

“Moor” doesn’t mean “black”, but that’s how Shakespeare was using it. Have you read the play? The characters call him black throughout it, he tells a story (briefly) about his life in sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., not North Africa, where the Moors are from), and there are racial slurs against black people (like…

I’ve never had just straight-up liver, but liver paste is delicious.

So... The estimate for black and Hispanic people must be completely accurate, but the one for white people isn’t? I don’t understand your logic. If 20% of Americans are “just straight up fucking morons answering simple questions” and we need to remove 20% of the responders to get an accurate picture, then wouldn’t…

I disagree. Romantic relationships are a very specific form of relationship that are already highly subject to change for younger people in the modern world, and I don’t think willingness to sacrifice a romantic relationship or the search for one necessarily indicates willingness to cut yourself off from love in…

This is SPECIFICALLY romantic love, though. You can have plenty of love in your life without a romantic or sexual partner, and I don’t necessarily think that it says something bad about society that people would give up romance and sex for security. It’s one relationship out of many.

I didn’t say the Democrats aren’t racist. IMO they are. So are the Republicans.

I think you’re misunderstanding my last comment. I know who freed the slaves; my point is that if Republicans were still the party of anti-racism, they’d probably still have the support of African-Americans. And if they were still the party of anti-racism, they would probably have the support of left-ish sites like…

the Republican party would have to be pretty damn different for African Americans to vote for it in large numbers, so I don’t really buy that your alternate-universe io9 would be opposed to the GOP

i just dont think rallying behind an average to good action movie is the way to enact change.

The hell is wrong with you? Nintendo is so good but its fans are so shitty

Ok but the whole point of the article is that these phrases have racist origins, not that they’ve suddenly become racist because PC people are in charge. They have been racist since they were created. That is obviously not true of the word “blue”.

“Just an FYI, no matter how progressive you think you are, you’re going to be seen as a helplessly out of touch bigot in 30 years.”

If your interpretation is correct, she would also have written that about a white non-immigrant. And I find that hard to believe.

“Honestly I expected this of the Koreans but America should be better than this.”

It’s a reference to this meme, a guy who thought he was way cooler than he actually was

It’s a reference to this meme, a guy who thought he was way cooler than he actually was

Okay clearly we’re not going to convince each other of anything. But it’s just not true that he didn’t do any of the basic gameplay; this trick involves a lot of stomping Koopas, hitting blocks, and tossing shells.

What makes you think that? I’m genuinely unsure, not just asking rhetorically.

Nobody said he should be jailed. Something can be racist without being an unforgivable crime